Has anyone been out for a Christmas meal recently?

We've been to a couple in different parts of the country and sprouts seem to have disappeared off the menu, being replaced by peas. Is this a shift from tradition or have the "I hate sprouts" brigade (aided by "Sprout hater" crisps, "Dreaded sprouts" etc. on menus) come to the fore?

Christmas Pudding also seems to be heading in the same direction.

Because Brexit. They were sent back to Belgium, dirty foreign muck

Ah, the annual debate. I was wondering when this would be brought up.
I love the old sprouties and we have them at every opportunity, not just Christmas day.
Mr Monkeybutt will come on and instruct you all how to prepare and cook them.
Take heed of the Master Chef and you will have the experience of a sprout lifetime.
Over to you Mr Butt.

The problem is Belgians don't like them and they own the IP.
Brussels sprouts steeped in the juices off the roast. What's not to like about that?

Meat is murder.

Sounds delicious Monty. I'll give that a try.

I actually like them.

The Belgians do really nice chips though, there’s a place in Ostend....

Sprouts have a nervous system too. Vegan murderers.

Animals eat veg, we're doing vegans a favour.

Jutland pig farmers can feck off as well..

Wow. Pig farmers are now living on jutland road, what has Hartlepool came to?

4 tablespoons butter or olive oil
1 small onion, finely chopped
450g Brussels sprouts, grated
salt and ground black pepper to taste
2 tablespoons white wine

Melt butter in a large pan over medium-high heat; saute onion in butter until golden and glazed, 5 to 7 minutes.
Add Brussels sprouts to the pan; season with salt and pepper. Saute sprouts until crisp-tender, 5 to 7 minutes. Remove pan from heat; drizzle wine over the sprouts and toss to coat.
Add sliced cooked chestnuts if desired, I do.

We need to eat more meat to fund medical research ask anyone at CRUK or Pharma companies about fetal bovine serum and how price has skyrocketed. It’s the medium used for cell cultures and therefore research. That’s my excuse anyway.

My ex's boot-leather steaks were certainly murder.

4 tablespoons butter or olive oil
1 small onion, finely chopped
450g Brussels sprouts, grated
salt and ground black pepper to taste
2 tablespoons white wine

Melt butter in a large pan over medium-high heat; saute onion in butter until golden and glazed, 5 to 7 minutes.
Add Brussels sprouts to the pan; season with salt and pepper. Saute sprouts until crisp-tender, 5 to 7 minutes. Remove pan from heat; drizzle wine over the sprouts and toss to coat.
Add sliced cooked chestnuts if desired, I do.[/quote]


Argh bollocks to all the malarky sounds like to much hard work just go to aldi get a carton of them you bang in the microwave make a bit gravy hoh the lot in a bowl a bit of salt and pepper and lashings of vinegar, a taste sensation but it doesn't half make you trump a lot

Or alternatively, go to Aldi and buy a bag of sprouts, boil the arse out of them and serve a sludge

or the other alternative is not to buy the little green bastards in the first place. however they are cooked or disguised they,ll always be the food of the devil for me.

Sprouts are like marmite....I personally hate both! Ugh!

Its quite amusing how many people seem to know how to cook sprouts and all of them adding just enough other ingredients to make them taste like not sprouts at all.

Thanks for the recipe Mr Butt, I knew you wouldn't let us down.

I like sprouts and chestnuts and bacon, individual flavours to make a combo that is tasty.

exactly. if you have to disguise something that much to get folk to eat them why bother in the first place. there are plenty of other veg available that everyone in the house actually likes without spending all the time on one item in a meal.

Microwave sprouts then half and fry in butter with garlic and walnuts.

Come on then, let's have some examples of vegetables that you eat exactly as they are without any synergy what-the-fuck-soever with the dish. This is exactly why English cuisine is rightly considered the most vile there is.

have cabbage, peas and carrots cooked on their own to actually taste like they are. do not need to add stuff to make em taste like something else or different. english food as done me fine for over 70 years and for my taste it cannot be beaten my messed about foreign food especially curry and owt with garlic in. suppose like everything its each to there own.

We steamed our sprouts and they were delicious, not a single one left. I intend to do a poll amongst my neighbours, I'll post the results.
Normally we have a turkey but this year opted for a turkey crown, which was delicious.
I had originally ordered a three legged turkey, from my local butcher ( who is not a neighbour ) but when I went to collect it he said he had failed to catch it.
Hope you all had a great time.

I get annoyed when the poncey super celeb chefs come on to make the best ever Xmas dinner. It’s a pretty straight forward meal, but they start putting in a range of herbs tied up looking like a witches broom, various chilli peppers, and an assortment of Seal Sands produce and they take four days to do it.
What they think is because they like those flavours and obviously love having an arse like a blood orange, we need ‘educating’.

P.S. Sprouts are top cancer killers, fact. I love em.

Having been a boiled sprout aficionado since I was a small child, may I say that they surely are the food of the gods.

Two simple rules.

1. Don't boil them for more than 8 or 9 minutes.

2. Don't buy them from ASDA or Tesco.

If I had to pick the most reliable supplier of decent sprouts, I'd probably go for the Co-op - with M&S and Aldi making up the rest of the top three.