Vegetables

[debka_notion]

I'm bringing a vegetable side dish to Thanksgiving dinner, and I was just thinking that I'd love to bring brussel sprouts- except that a. they're best with butter, and b. I haven't seen any here yet. So I then started trying to look up when brussel sprout season was in Israel, and found out just about nothing.

Anyways, I realize that most people are not so fond of brussel sprouts. I don't think that my tastes are so unusual, but then I suggest beets or brussel sprouts (or often enough even squash) as if they're normal foods, and often enough, I get funny looks. So it's probably best that I don't have them to make, so that I can't bring them to my poor Thanksgiving dinner hostess. (But what to make instead? I don't know, yet. We'll see what inspiration strikes.)

Regardless, something about brussel sprouts is currently striking me as Thanksgiving-ish. Oh well.

Comments

[lordameth.livejournal.com]

Brussel sprouts are obviously *the* stereotypical gross vegetable.

Maybe it was for that reason alone that my parents never tried it until they were like 50, and that I also therefore never had it growing up, until one Thanksgiving, my aunt foisted it upon all of us. Really, not so bad.

As for butter... really? No butter in Israel? What's up with that?

I remember when I was living in Japan, there was a nation-wide butter shortage for about a month. (Crazy, right?) I guess it wasn't too big of a deal because, stereotypically at least, the Japanese don't eat much dairy. Still, before and after the shortage, it was stocked up in my tiny local grocery store... and if I remember right was available at every corner convenience store.

I'm genuinely curious about this. If you find out an answer to the butter mystery, let me know.

And have a happy thanksgiving!!

[debka-notion.livejournal.com]

Plenty of butter in Israel- but Thanksgiving generally involves a turkey, therefore bringing vegetables that want butter to the meal would mean them being eaten in a less than best manner... Just a kashrut thing, nothing so exciting.

[lordameth.livejournal.com]

That's what I assumed you meant at first, and then I misread "b. I haven't seen any here yet." as referring to butter, not brussel sprouts. A simple misunderstanding haha.