Seriously?? Wow, a friend had been talking my ear off with brassicacea fact and failed to mention this? Thanks for sharing!

The germans almost got it right with the naming

I once had someone accuse me of being bourgeoisie for eating Brussels sprouts.

Same, but it makes the bees happy.

"Let us see if anyone else can guess", accompanied by aggressive eyebrow movements.

That's called bolting, and it's no longer enjoyable to eat when it's done that.

Not exactly. It is bolting when it starts sending up a flowering stem, the very beginning of flowering. Every broccoli I've ever eaten has bolted, but not many of them have bolted and flowered.

If your broccoli smells like a fart then that means you have overcooked it in water.

Try roasting that shit, you will find that broccoli smells and tastes fucking fantastic.

I don't know enough about memes to figure out if this is broccoli or not.

It is not, with broccoli and cauliflower you literally eat the buds, or how they are called in English, and they can of course flower.

Grew broccoli for the first time this year. The answer is worse, chewier, stringier.

It becomes bitter.

It’s closely related to mustard, and mustard’s distinct flavor is from the seeds. So I’d assume that if you leave it long enough for the blooms to seed, they’d taste similar to mustard. Most plants tend to get bitter after they bloom, because they send all of their nutrients to the flowers. And mustard does tend to be fairly bitter.

In my opinion, no. It is picked and consumed when the buds are still tight, if the head starts to loosen or the buds begin to open it has a more bitter taste to it.