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Sprout shortage !
« on: 02 December, 2016, 05:07:29 pm »
It seems we are about to have a sprout shortage as cabbage moths have devastated this years crop. Some farmers have lost 50% of the crop.
We may be reduced to importing foreign sprouts for Christmas !
I think you'll find it's a bit more complicated than that.

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Re: Sprout shortage !
« Reply #1 on: 02 December, 2016, 05:15:51 pm »
Good riddance
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« Reply #2 on: 02 December, 2016, 05:19:55 pm »
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« Reply #3 on: 02 December, 2016, 05:23:34 pm »
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« Reply #4 on: 02 December, 2016, 05:34:46 pm »
And there was much rejoicing.

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« Reply #5 on: 02 December, 2016, 06:21:36 pm »
We celebrate Christmas by living without green balls.

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« Reply #6 on: 02 December, 2016, 06:57:18 pm »
Ooh.  I suddenly feel more cheerful about Christmas this year.
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Re: Sprout shortage !
« Reply #7 on: 02 December, 2016, 07:43:56 pm »
Oi, I like sprouts!
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Re: Sprout shortage !
« Reply #8 on: 02 December, 2016, 08:02:44 pm »
I bought some this morning, intending to feed my son and his friend. Son likes them and apparently they had broccoli at his friend's so it seems like a safe assumption. But then I was too busy with work deadline to cook them.
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Re: Sprout shortage !
« Reply #9 on: 02 December, 2016, 08:18:40 pm »
We may be reduced to importing foreign sprouts for Christmas !

Don't they come from Belgium already?
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Re: Sprout shortage !
« Reply #10 on: 02 December, 2016, 08:48:58 pm »
We may be reduced to importing foreign sprouts for Christmas !

Don't they come from Belgium already?
We voted for Brexit to take back control of our own sprouts. We won't stand for EU brassica inspectors dictating supplies of British flatulence!
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Re: Sprout shortage !
« Reply #11 on: 02 December, 2016, 08:49:24 pm »
I bought some this morning, intending to feed my son and his friend. Son likes them and apparently they had broccoli at his friend's so it seems like a safe assumption. But then I was too busy with work deadline to cook them.

I microwave most of my vegetables. They get a few minutes on full in a lidded Pyrex dish. Lack of time for vegetables is not an issue.

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« Reply #12 on: 02 December, 2016, 08:53:30 pm »
I bought some this morning, intending to feed my son and his friend. Son likes them and apparently they had broccoli at his friend's so it seems like a safe assumption. But then I was too busy with work deadline to cook them.

I microwave most of my vegetables. They get a few minutes on full in a lidded Pyrex dish. Lack of time for vegetables is not an issue.
I didn't even have time to wash/peel the outer leaves off/otherwise prepare them. I hardly even had time to push the buttons on the microwave! It's not usually like this...
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LittleWheelsandBig

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Re: Sprout shortage !
« Reply #13 on: 02 December, 2016, 09:40:43 pm »
Oi, I like sprouts!

You can have my share of them for forever.
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hellymedic

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Re: Sprout shortage !
« Reply #14 on: 02 December, 2016, 09:55:36 pm »
I don't dislike sprouts but don't like them enough to buy despite partner's dislike, so we do without.

We'll have carrots, parsnips, peas and Mediterranean vegetables.

I don't think we'll suffer.

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« Reply #15 on: 03 December, 2016, 01:41:18 am »
It would be fair to say that no matter how profound such a sprout shortage turns out to be, it will not affect us in the slightest.

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Re: Sprout shortage !
« Reply #16 on: 03 December, 2016, 08:12:47 am »
I've dusted off all those old bottles and set them up straight

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Re: Sprout shortage !
« Reply #17 on: 03 December, 2016, 10:16:57 am »
Oi, I like sprouts!

You can have my share of them for forever.

It's genetically determined, apparently:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2011/nov/01/brussel-sprout-gene

Ha,  that's cool :)
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ian

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« Reply #18 on: 03 December, 2016, 11:42:04 am »
I like sprouts (and brassicas in general) but like a lot of foods they don't like me so much. Lots of tootin'.

I too have the fear of overboiled on the outside yet still semi frozen on the insides sprouts fed to me as a child. Like the world's worst baked alaska. Steamed or roasted for me.

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« Reply #19 on: 03 December, 2016, 01:10:30 pm »
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Re: Sprout shortage !
« Reply #20 on: 03 December, 2016, 08:15:06 pm »
Please tell me that's a spoof.  :hand:
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« Reply #21 on: 03 December, 2016, 08:37:24 pm »
Please tell me that's a spoof.  :hand:

It's 2016.  Nobody can tell any more.

Cudzoziemiec

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« Reply #22 on: 03 December, 2016, 11:08:50 pm »
I'm pretty sure it's real. It's just reality is a parody of itself.
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Re: Sprout shortage !
« Reply #23 on: 03 December, 2016, 11:36:27 pm »
Sprout shortage looks like (social?) media hype, or perhaps a regional issue (ISTR it was one of the Channel Islands that had suffered crop devastation).

Meanwhile, I'd gathered venison (sadly not muntjac) from the market yesterday. Casseroling needs a more robust stock than our current reused cooking juices, so I put trimmings from yesterday's sprouts, plus a few other bits of veg - leek tops plus brassica stems & a few celeriac roots - into the pressure cooker to see what emerged after 15 mins. I was more than a tad cautious, having suffered overcooked sprouts at a young age and vomited (Mum got the message & gave me raw sprouts thereafter ;) ).

Surprisingly, the stock diddn't taste of brassicas. It'll need some reinforcing to build up to "beef stock", but extra onions, a bit more browning before casseroling & a bit of chocolate malt (not bitter like black malt) should improve the balance.

Meanwhile, sprouts are ready trimmed for a quick meal  ;D .