Happy sparkly christmas

[fluffymark]

HAPPY SPARKLY CHRISTMAS TO EVERYONE! Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay! *happysmiles*

Now for the big mystery of the day. Which of course is sprouts. WHY?

[Poll #894795]

Comments

[kerrypolka.livejournal.com]

We had this VERY DISCUSSION in the flat about an hour ago, and I still do not understand why sprouts are a "Christmas thing". SERIOUSLY. WHAT.

[fluffymark]

Please please tell me it's only the british who are mad enough to consider sprouts a christmas food. I mean, who came up with that idea? How did it catch on? Just what were people thinking? aaaargh!

[rainbowskye.livejournal.com]

I take it you've seen this:

http://www.eyegas.com/xmas05/

:)~

[uisgebeatha.livejournal.com]

*ROFL*

But they just murdered a perfectly good Tears For Fears song in the process! ;)

[fluffymark]

*giggles*

No I hadn't, but now I'm very amused I have!

[fluffymark]

Yes yes, this is my problem. All the other foodstuffs we have for christmas dinner are very yummy indeed. It's like "spot the odd one out", except most people *don't* and insist on cooking these strange green things, even though nobody appears to know how to cook them properly. Eeeeeew!

[uisgebeatha.livejournal.com]

I am one of life's freaks, alas, as I rather like them. Possibly because I was brainwashed as a child into seeing them as cute 'baby cabbages'... :/

EeeesparklyChristmas!!! :)

[fluffymark]

HOW? How can you eat SPROUTS? They are wrong! I don't like cabage either, so the cute baby cabbage trick won't work on me, that will just make me go even more eeeeeeeew. Sprouts are good for one thing, and that's burning them.

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

If you don't eat Christmas vegetables you won't shit until January.

[fluffymark]

If your parents told you that, they are truly evil.

[beingjdc.livejournal.com]

Where's "I wish"?

[fluffymark]

You'd be welcome to my sprouts, but I didn't have any in the first place.

[pinkdormouse.livejournal.com]

Seasonally Festive Greetings to you too!!

[fluffymark]

Seasonal greetings and sprout-hating to you too! :P

[mstevens.livejournal.com]

Sprouts and mint sauce and gravy: yummy!

[fluffymark]

Noooooooo! Make the scary sprout eater go away, please! Heeeeeeeeeeelp

[mstevens.livejournal.com]

/me menaces you with a sprout

[mageboltrat.livejournal.com]

The prob with sprouts is that they are really hard to cook well. They are apsolutely delicious if you cook them for exactly the wrong amount of micro seconds.

[fluffymark]

Correct, the vast majority of peopel don't know how to cook sprouts. SO WHY DO THEY TRY? Are they all sadists?

[hairyears.livejournal.com]

I spent the day surrounded by country people who eat sprouts. A LOT of sprouts. At times the air had a distinct yellow haze of sulphur.

As for the necessary laxative qualities of sprouts: given the choice I'd rely on prayer, the force of will, and a corkscrew.

[shermarama]

Pah. Sprouts are a perfectly respectable winter vegetable and get eaten at Christmas because back before we could fly beans in from Kenya, they were the only green veg around at this time of year, unless you count leeks, though I reckon they should have a place in a Christmas dinner too.

But anyway sprouts are tasty. Especially curried.

[elettaria.livejournal.com]

You forgot to include an option for those of us who like sprouts but not Christmas, so I refrained from voting. You do have to get good fresh ones and cook them carefully, which makes them much easier for a single person dining alone than someone preparing Xmas dinner for a crowd, plus I get organic veg which improves the flavour.

[robert-jones.livejournal.com]

Wow, a perfect tie.

[otterylexa.livejournal.com]

Sprouts are delicious, shame about the turkey.