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Facts about BROCCOLI









Barrel of Fun

Abort, retry, fail
I ate ELEVEN 'sprigs' of BROCCOLI last night and I feel like the strongest man in the WORLD today. Not the average type you can purchase, the long and thin variety, whatever that MIGHT be called.
 


Braders

Abi Fletchers Gimpboy
Jul 15, 2003
29,224
Brighton, United Kingdom
BROCCOLI is MICKY ADAMS next SIGNING


FACT.
 








Frutos

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Helpful Moderator
NSC Patron
May 3, 2006
36,315
Northumberland
BROCCOLI has been around for more than 2000 years, The name "BROCCOLI" comes for the Latin word brachium, which means "branch," or "arm." Americans have grown it in their gardens for only about 200 years! The first commercially grown broccoli was grown and harvested in New York, then planted in the 1920's in California. A few crates were sent back East and by 1925 the broccoli market was off the ground. This vegetable is highly recognized for its anti-cancer nutrients. It is a cruciferous vegetable and member of the cabbage family which is helpful in preventing certain types of cancer


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Disallowed, I'm afraid, on the grounds that you failed to use the 'full capitalisation of the word BROCCOLI' rule in the two cases I've underlined. :p
 


pasty

A different kind of pasty
Jul 5, 2003
31,043
West, West, West Sussex
BROCCOLI should always be STEAMED and never BOILED or it goes all Sussex Spinmeister on you.
 




Easy 10

Brain dead MUG SHEEP
Jul 5, 2003
62,429
Location Location
Sometimes I only eat the TOP bits of BROCCOLI, whilst discarding the STALKS.
This somehow makes it slightly more BEARABLE.
 


Gully

Monkey in a seagull suit.
Apr 24, 2004
16,812
Way out west
Roman references to a cabbage-family vegetable that may have been BROCCOLI are less than perfectly clear: the Roman natural history writer, Pliny the Elder (no relation to Nathan), wrote about a vegetable that fit the description of BROCCOLI. This would imply that the Romans grew their own BROCCOLI for culinary uses during the 1st century. Some vegetable scholars recognize BROCCOLI in the cookbook of Apicius.
 


Horton's halftime iceberg

Blooming Marvellous
Jan 9, 2005
16,491
Brighton
The tensions building up to a wedding create bizarre arguments. My now wife and I had an argument about the amount of BROCCOLI we were eating, I said just right, she said not enough.
 








Easy 10

Brain dead MUG SHEEP
Jul 5, 2003
62,429
Location Location
BROCCOLI makes excellent miniature TREES for model railway enthusiasts. You cannot buy BROCCOLI from HORNBY though.
 








Simster

"the man's an arse"
Jul 7, 2003
54,983
Surrey
I cooked BROCCOLLI only yesterday. Actually I'd already half cooked it for a previous meal, but it was still TOUGH, so I did it again. It tasted fluffy and shit, which will come as no great surprise. :(
 






Muhammad - I’m hard - Bruce Lee

You can't change fighters
NSC Patron
Jul 25, 2005
10,911
on a pig farm
it is not a good idea to patch up worn areas of a bowling green with BROCCOLI
 




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