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I'm afraid the gardening gene isn't hereditary. My lad when he was little was helping me to plant out veges. We finished the row very proudly and he asked 'what have we planted mummy?' I told him cabbages. He replied 'YUK! I hate cabbage!' and proceeded to pull the lot out. So much for teaching kids where their food comes from so they appreciate it! He's a bit better now he's grown, marginally.

You’re mean,   we don’t develop the ability to appreciate bitter until our late teens. Some of us though I think have an inability to recognise it, which was why even from a very young age I loved sprouts they taste really sweet to me.

I'm afraid the gardening gene isn't hereditary.  My lad when he was little was helping me to plant out veges.  We finished the row very proudly and he asked 'what have we planted mummy?'  I told him cabbages.  He replied  'YUK! I hate cabbage!'  and proceeded to pull the lot out.  So much for teaching kids where their food comes from so they appreciate it!   He's a bit better now he's grown, marginally.

Maybe he didn't like cabbage because of the way you cooked them.
I'm sure my Mum used to put bicarb or summat in the water to keep it green - then proceeded to boil it to sludge. It was enough to put anyone off cabbage. Not that you'd do anything so heinous as that JJB.

I still use baking soda in the water when boiling cabbage but I don’t boil the crap out of it. My cabbage has a bit of a bite out of it.

My cabbage has a bit of a bite out of it.

That'll be the caterpillars!

My cabbage has a bit of a bite out of it.

That'll be the caterpillars!

 Not that type of bite 

Is it a welsh thing, my mother always put bicarb in with the green veg they become luminous. She also boiled it until you no longer required your teeth to eat it. bleugh.

Everything is steamed in our house, I would say though the gravy my mam made having removed all the nutrients from the veg was wonderful.

My dad used to drink the cabbage water - said it was full of goodness - whatever that meant!

My MiL used boil the cabbage in the bacon water, it was disgustingly salty and greasy, I could never eat it, it was generally white stalky cabbage, I wouldn’t call it cabbage. To me cabbage is green and leafy and the bicarbonate keeps it that way.

My dad used to drink the cabbage water - said it was full of goodness - whatever that meant!

My grandma did the same, and told me the same.  Grandma was a bit dotty though, you'd have loved her.