[Sca-cooks] Brussels sprouts

[Jadwiga Zajaczkowa / Jenne Heise]

> If vague memory serves, you can get sprouts from any of the head cabbages 
> under certain conditions.  B. oleracea v. gemmifera just takes the hassle 
> out of producing sprouts, which is probably why the initial mutation 
> survived and flourished.

I guess the point is that if this mutation simply skips the large head 
phase, I'm not sure that there is a meaningful difference between baby 
cabbage sprouts grown this way and brussels sprouts. I seem to remember 
from my childhood my mother occasionally cutting off the main cabbage 
stalk and harvesting the smaller cabbages along with her brussels 
sprouts. I don't remember them tasting any different, but then I was in 
the stage of development where I didn't like cabbage-type foods (thank 
goodness that went away!)

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