Have you ever cut fresh sprouts in half, placed them in a baking sheet cut side up, drizzled olive oil on them, and then sprinkle seasoning of your choice? Roast them in the oven until they just start to crisp. It cooks away the bitter and brings out the sweetness. It’s the only way my kids will eat them.
To me, brussel sprouts taste like concentrated cabbage.
Cabbage can be edible if cooked correctly, but there is no way I’d ever say it is nice. Brussel sprouts are worse.
I’ve been sucked in several times by my wife saying “try them cooked this way, they are really nice like this”.
Never again 
I like them raw shredded in a salad. Or steamed, or boiled a little, roasted is good. Don’t like them smothered in cheezelike food.
Brussel sprouts taste bitter to some of us, and there’s no changing that.
I’m with MikeP on this one.
Not trying to convert anyone to the church of Broccoli. I think cabbage and similar foods are cusp foods, you either like them or you don’t, and it doesn’t much matter how they are prepared. I have found that I like them more as I get older, but there are some things I don’t eat anymore that I loved as a child.That’s why I try stuff every once in a while.
Other cusp food in my opinion.
Liver
Blue Cheese
I had an idea of other foods when I started this and now I’ve forgotten.
Plenty of others, I suspect.
I grew up in a heavily Pennsylvania Dutch area, so Tripes/Organ Meats and Souse / Head Cheese were common. I enjoy them, I know plenty of folks who don’t. Another huge divider in the area is Scrapple.
I also dig sushi / sashimi and have friends who can’t even think about them without gagging wry
Telling them they just ate cricket meal when I make bread and they love it can be entertaining too.
Our second attempt at home-made Ciabatta bread came out much better and fuller. The recipe wasn’t fooling when it says you need to avoid messing with the bread as much as possible so as to not disturb the rise.
If we ever move, a kitchen that supports these hobbies better will make sense.
I despise the former and love the latter.
I can’t eat either one, though I admit to liking the smell of liver and onions.
And I’ll eat pickled almost anything, eggs, cucumber, cauliflower, bologna, sausage, not pig feet.
Towing a trailer/caravan…
Never lost control over a trailer (or a caravan which I towed) either.
Now, how the heck do people manage to lose control over a trailer and end up getting wrecked?
Having just started doing this I can think of a couple ways. Not including mechanical failure on the trailer, which is common especially tire issues. If you don’t have proper sway bar equipment you can have the trailer start swinging until the tail wags the dog. A big trailer with a tow vehicle without brake control would also be bad. Strong winds, rapid lane changes, excessive braking. Going too fast and doing anything.
I think most of them can be blamed on user error though, wrong tow vehicle, bad maintenance, excessive speeds,
ASSuming it is for bigger trailers and caravans only.
Got a trailer that can handle 500kgs, no sway bar stuff. And I did tow a caravan once, no sway bar either.
And when I’m towing, I don’t go fast, usually do 80km/h or thereabouts. No need for a rush and speed.
Yeah, my trailer is about 2,250 kgs. I usually keep it around 100-120 kph. My neighbor has a 5k trailer he hauls at around 120+; the advantage of diesel.
I’ve found I’m more comfortable at 95-100, and I’m more comfortable on back roads even if they are narrower.
I wrecked with a trailer. It was due to an loading error. Instead of putting the heavy stuff over the axle or nearer the front of the trailer, all the heavy weight ended up on the back of the trailer behind the wheels. I wasn’t going fast but the oscillation grew quicker than I could compensate and it ended up snapping off of the tow hitch. Needless to say, anything I hauled from then on I loaded.
Yeah, my small 6 ft trailer was a bear, loading plywood on it would put all the pressure upward on the hitch and the dang thing bounced around like a kid’s toy behind my car.
The nice thing about my camper is it’s dual axle with a 4-5 foot gap between axles. If it’s disconnected from anything it will almost stand on it’s own, not that I’ve tried that, it’s too expensive to play with.
I was contemplating a trailer for a while, and that was the only configuration that made sense to me.
Now that I have more of a handle on it than I did my first trip it’s the only way to go. Though It did take some over thinking to realize that I can’t spin it on the axle like a single axle trailer, OTOH, it goes where it’s pointed all the time.
This is my buddy’s complaint about his wife. She drives… poorly. Reminds me of this
I have never been in a car with her driving, but my wife rode with her once and said never again.
I have what I think is a bug bite on my upper arm on the bottom side… but it’s kind of small. So when I bring my arm close enough to see it at an awkward angle it’s too close for me to focus on, due to going blind, and if I pull it away, which is even more awkward since its my arm and it only goes so far away, it’s too small to see.
I’ve caught myself twice starting to spin like a dog chasing it’s tail.
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