OK, so we’ve had a poll about preferred animal proteins:
And one about Carnivore, Vegan or somewhere in between:
In the second thread, a few people posted abut the vegetables that they don’t like - which led me to reflect that, actually, I don’t think there is any vegetable I dislike. (Some lists describe rhubarb as a vegetable - I wouldn’t (and I wouldn’t describe it as food, either) - but I think it’s generally used as a fruit so it isn’t included here).
So: what vegetables don’t you like? Here’s the poll. Please bear in mind that polls are limited to 50 items, so I had to combine categories and cut a few of the more exotic varieties to get down to that number. Some of the editing down was quite brutal - I can only apologize.
I just realized here are two entries for french beans - ::sigh:: - sorry. Looks like I can’t edit the poll. I suggest that, if you dislike them, check 'em both - they deserve it!
If you never tasted them, you can’t dislike them. Fair?
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ETA - your point about jackfruit is fair. I wondered about that one.So far as I can tell it seems to be used as a vegetable in some vegan recipes (for example).
Hmm - you’re right, no cucumber. I compiled the list using a “list of vegetables” website and then editing down to fit the poll spec. Cucumber was never on the original list. A strange omission which I failed to spot.
I picked ‘none’ because the only vegetable I detest is beets, and it I didn’t see that initially; at first I thought ‘beetroot’ was something different, like ‘turnip greens’ are different than ‘turnips’. But now I think ‘beetroot’ is meant to be beets. So, oops. Doesn’t look like poll choices have an edit window like posts.
BTW, I have to say it’s pretty rude to refer to @Mangetout as a ‘vegetable’. They are also a very likeable poster, so I don’t think that one is going to be chosen much, if at all.
(haha JK, though I did have to google ‘mangetout’ to learn it’s the French word for young pea pods.)
I, too, had to Google mangetout. Depending on the maturity of the pea, those are snow peas or sugar snap peas in America.
Pumpkin/squash includes zucchini, and other summer squashes.
I think “swede” is an alternate name for rutabaga, which is a large yellow turnip.
I’ll accept that jack fruit is used as a meat substitute, not really as a fruit. I wouldn’t have included it in a list of vegetables, but eh. And while rhubarb is a stem, i guess it’s generally used as if it were a fruit.
I haven’t tried some of these (e.g. Jerusalem artichoke).
It’s rather interesting, looking at the results, that my selection and others selection are pretty diverse. It looks like this really is a fairly subjective area.
I was actually not aware that there was a broccoli/cauliflower hybrid, and find that kind of strange, since I thought broccoli and cauliflower are already closely related, having both been bred form the Brassica plant.
Wow, two things I was today years old when I learned them, in the course of a few minutes in a thread about vegetables:
Mangetout = French word for pea pods or snow peas
Romanesco = broccoli/cauliflower hybrid
Actually 3 things, if you count learning that broccoli/cauliflower hybrids exist, as well as what their name is.
I believe that’s a UK thing, and refers more to the cooked and mashed form of the vegetable rather than the vegetable itself. My Scottish Grandma used to make Swedes for a Christmas dinner side.
I’ve never heard of calabrese, either. I assume it was an alternate name for broccoli, since there are so many unfamiliar-to-me vegetables names in this poll.
Several list items I wouldn’t buy for myself, but I’m okay with eating them prepared by a knowledgeable cook. Foremost would be zucchini – it’s tolerable in Chinese food, and zucchini bread is hard to resist. So, no “No” votes.
Hmm - one thing I’ve realized is that whilst I’m moderately good* at spotting a US name for something I know by another name, I’m pretty poor at identifying things where there might be a US name I’m unfamiliar with. So Big Thanks to everyone who has been filling the gaps.
