A confession ...
Jun 5th 2009 | 2:50 pm
#16
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Oddly, I do love chickpeas. And sweetcorn. It's just their bastard offspring I can't stand.
Jun 5th 2009 | 3:41 pm
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Re: A confession ...
Sprouts make me gip.
My mum made me eat three every Wednesday night. I tried everything I could to avoid them and I was banned from leaving the table too as I'd been caught spitting them down the loo or throwing them out of a window.
I tried sneaking them under the table to the dog but even the dog wouldn't eat them and I got caught again.
One night Mum went to answer a phone call in another room. As quick as a flash I heaved out a shovel of coal from the coal bucket, squidged the three sprouts down inside the bucket and put the coal back on top. Then I told my younger sisters that I would kill them slowly if they told on me.
Mum came back and asked my sisters if they'd eaten my sprouts for me and they truthfully answered "no". They both liked them of course and Mum loved them.
When it was bed time I was congratulating myself heartily for finally getting rid of the dreaded sprouts. Little did I know as I slept like an angel that when Mum stoked the fire up for the night she spent a while wondering what the green bits were in the coal. Of course she worked out that they were my squidged sprouts.
The next Wednesday she gave me 6 sprouts. Three for that night and three to replace the ones in the coal bucket.
When I left home I never ever touched a sprout again.
When my daughter was a bit smaller and we were in England for Christmas my mum asked her "do you like sprouts?"
'What are those Grandma?' she replied.
My mum looked at me and wondered why my kid didn't know what a sprout was.
"Come on Mum - did you honestly think that I would actually buy and cook sprouts. Thanks to you even the smell of them still makes me gip !"
My mum made me eat three every Wednesday night. I tried everything I could to avoid them and I was banned from leaving the table too as I'd been caught spitting them down the loo or throwing them out of a window.
I tried sneaking them under the table to the dog but even the dog wouldn't eat them and I got caught again.
One night Mum went to answer a phone call in another room. As quick as a flash I heaved out a shovel of coal from the coal bucket, squidged the three sprouts down inside the bucket and put the coal back on top. Then I told my younger sisters that I would kill them slowly if they told on me.
Mum came back and asked my sisters if they'd eaten my sprouts for me and they truthfully answered "no". They both liked them of course and Mum loved them.
When it was bed time I was congratulating myself heartily for finally getting rid of the dreaded sprouts. Little did I know as I slept like an angel that when Mum stoked the fire up for the night she spent a while wondering what the green bits were in the coal. Of course she worked out that they were my squidged sprouts.
The next Wednesday she gave me 6 sprouts. Three for that night and three to replace the ones in the coal bucket.
When I left home I never ever touched a sprout again.
When my daughter was a bit smaller and we were in England for Christmas my mum asked her "do you like sprouts?"
'What are those Grandma?' she replied.
My mum looked at me and wondered why my kid didn't know what a sprout was.
"Come on Mum - did you honestly think that I would actually buy and cook sprouts. Thanks to you even the smell of them still makes me gip !"
Jun 5th 2009 | 3:50 pm
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Re: A confession ...
My husband used to get into trouble at daycare for holding beets in his mouth and spitting them out later in the toilet. Sounds exactly like what you described.
Jun 5th 2009 | 4:12 pm
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Re: A confession ...
The only sprouts I like are Brussels sprouts, and I usually get the reaction like I've grown another head when I say that.
Other than that... Meat. It's what's for dinner.
Other than that... Meat. It's what's for dinner.
Jun 8th 2009 | 12:14 am
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Jun 8th 2009 | 3:19 am
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Re: A confession ...
I will eat a few but I don't like them. Sprouts are my husband's favourite veg.
Jun 8th 2009 | 4:24 am
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Re: A confession ...
Don't worry. You're perfectly normal. They taste disgusting, which is why the vast majority of people only eat them once a year.
If anyone says sprouts are good for you tell them they contain natural chemicals that kill rats: gluco-something or another, and there's no way you're eating rat poison. That should end the conversation.
If anyone says sprouts are good for you tell them they contain natural chemicals that kill rats: gluco-something or another, and there's no way you're eating rat poison. That should end the conversation.
Jun 8th 2009 | 5:39 am
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Re: A confession ...
FFS 2 pages on who does and doesnt like Sprouts. You people seriously need to think about getting a life. 
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Jun 8th 2009 | 5:46 am
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Re: A confession ...
Jun 8th 2009 | 5:48 am
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Jun 8th 2009 | 5:52 am
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