Close to Home by John McPherson for December 15, 2015

We make you fart!“Ooooh yeah, let’s eat lots of them!”See, you just have to think like a kid.

….with lots of melted cheese.

I guess if you drown out the flavor with lots of cheese or butter sauces I can choke some of it down but brussels sprouts are worse! The smell of it cooking is enough to kill ya. Ew.

Stir-fry with meats and any variety of Chinese sauces…’nuff said.

OK, instead of encouraging me to eat broccoli, that just turned me of to cream of broccoli or cheddar broccoli soups (the only way I’d eat broccoli), forever.

And broccoli is not leafy, either.

All sorts of bad stuff ends with " coli ". Just sayin’ .

Steam it, my mother would cook it into mush! Yuck. Lightly steamed it tastes great.

Broccoli is actually a flower, not a leaf. The cabbage family is versatile in that from some members we eat flowers, from others leaves, and from still others, we eat roots. Personally, I love broccoli, raw, cooked, with sauces, or without, or as soup.

Just pour a ton of melted cheese (velveeta works wonders) over the broccoli. Most kids love it that way.

I like broccoli and brussel sprouts, but please no cheese. Veleveeta doesn’t even qualify as cheese anyway.

Kids of this day in age wouldn’t understand…, but it could be sung either to the tune of “Gidget” or “The Addams family”?

“Vile Weed!”-Newman

Looks like a scene from “Daddy Daycare”.

Is this dinner theater?

I love broccoli. Also, who crucifies their vegetables? :-P