They are a vegetable. A spring vegetable. I just went to a fancy restaurant in Boston and they were on the menu. Although, truth be told, they were disguised on the plate. No need to ask why a disguise might be useful after seeing my photo.
I looked them up in Wikipedia. A couple of varieties had “heath” issue next to them. Heath issue as in “carcinogenic”. Good Lord.
It’s a vegetable. It looks weird. And, some varieties may be carcinogenic?
Any marketing ideas, Don Draper? I think I’ll take the beans account, thank you.
Maine is very familiar with them. I wonder if George H.W. Bush, my favorite broccoli hater, ever ate a fiddlehead while in Kennebunkport?
He is the source, and my nominee, for best presidential quote ever. EVER.
“I do not like broccoli. And, I haven’t liked it since I was a kid and my mother made me eat it. And I am the President of the United States and I’m not going to eat anymore of it.-George H.W. Bush-
