Anonymous
Post 09/25/2023 20:53     Subject: Big Vegetable is taking us for a ride
No one mentioned bitter melon?
Anonymous
Post 09/25/2023 19:09     Subject: Big Vegetable is taking us for a ride
Anonymous wrote:Parsnips

Parsnips are awesome roasted with any melange of root vegetables.
Anonymous
Post 09/25/2023 19:08     Subject: Big Vegetable is taking us for a ride
Anonymous wrote:Celery has no redeeming quality besides its lack of calories. I hate the taste, the stringiness, how it goes limp in the fridge.

Maybe only in a bloody mary/caeser but that's even pushing it.

Bloody Marys are the only thing I buy celery for.
Anonymous
Post 09/25/2023 19:06     Subject: Big Vegetable is taking us for a ride
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Carrots are filler food. Cheap and orange and in everything, but would you miss them if they weren’t there?

Nope! You never miss carrots!


WUT. Then how would I have my favorite cake with cream cheese icing? This thread is losing the plot.

OT but cream cheese icing is good on lots of other cakes, not just carrot.
Anonymous
Post 09/25/2023 19:06     Subject: Re:Big Vegetable is taking us for a ride
Anonymous wrote:I know it's a legume, and not techincally a vegetable but I have to nominate -

Lima beans. They taste like dry wall. Yes, you can add butter, salt and garlic, but then you simply have buttery, salty, garlicky drywall.

I’m one of the PPs with the childhood full of green peppers. Lima beans were my dad’s least favorite food so we literally never ate them.
Anonymous
Post 09/25/2023 19:04     Subject: Big Vegetable is taking us for a ride
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Leeks are literally my favourite vegetable!

I will agree with artichokes. Who tf saw this thing and was like, maybe if I keep peeling it will taste good...? No thanks lol.


Leeks are so sandy and stringy.
I made a potato leek soup (the recipe is actually potato ONION leek) and just omitted the leek and let the onion carry the way and it was much better. Sorry leeks.

I’ve done this both ways - either Joy of Cooking or Julia Child I forget which. The version with leeks is better to me, but you really have to soak them to get them clean.
Anonymous
Post 09/25/2023 19:02     Subject: Big Vegetable is taking us for a ride
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The answer is green peppers. There are no redeeming qualities to a green pepper.



THIS


And they permeate every other food you cook them with, so you can’t just eat around them. I grew up with a mother who thought green peppers were God’s gift to vegetation and when you walked in the door when you got home and that smell hit you, you knew it was going to be a dinner of sadness.

In total agreement with this. We had the same childhood.
Anonymous
Post 09/25/2023 19:01     Subject: Big Vegetable is taking us for a ride
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Okra is mostly only okay, but fried okra is one of the best foods.


You've just opened a new category. If the vegetable can be deep fried, is it salvageable? Palatable even? Discuss.


Sweet potato fries are an insult to the humble, hard working russet potatoes french fries.

I vastly prefer sweet potato fries to almost any regular potato fries (except yours, McDonald’s)
Anonymous
Post 09/25/2023 18:59     Subject: Big Vegetable is taking us for a ride
Anonymous wrote:The answer is green peppers. There are no redeeming qualities to a green pepper.

YES.
Anonymous
Post 09/25/2023 18:30     Subject: Big Vegetable is taking us for a ride
Anonymous wrote:How has no one mentioned rhubarb, Swiss shard, or mustard greens?


Rainbow chard,
Sounds like it is going to be great
Like skittles


Tastes like wet newspaper
Anonymous
Post 09/25/2023 18:29     Subject: Big Vegetable is taking us for a ride
How has no one mentioned rhubarb, Swiss shard, or mustard greens?
Anonymous
Post 09/25/2023 18:09     Subject: Big Vegetable is taking us for a ride
Anonymous wrote:Carrots are filler food. Cheap and orange and in everything, but would you miss them if they weren’t there?

Nope! You never miss carrots!


What! I love carrots. I eat the plain all the time!
Anonymous
Post 09/25/2023 18:06     Subject: Big Vegetable is taking us for a ride
Anonymous wrote:I love OP ❤️

Also, I've always wondered who first decided to eat an artichoke. They must have been very hungry to try it.


Or a passion fruit!!! Those things look like straight vomit. But taste good obviously.
Anonymous
Post 09/25/2023 18:04     Subject: Big Vegetable is taking us for a ride
Fennel is delicious! But I'm italian and grew up eating it, maybe that's why.
Anonymous
Post 09/25/2023 17:59     Subject: Big Vegetable is taking us for a ride
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Turnips are delicious. One of my favorite parts of Thanksgiving.
+100 My late mother cooked them every Thanksgiving and I have carried on that tradition. I look forward to my turnips just as much as I do the mac and cheese!


Then why not eat them EVERY DAY? hmmm? Or at least weekly?