Chapotraphouse

b sprouts are the jam, or at least i'd always thought so and didn't understand the hate.

but as it turns out, conventional plant breeding techniques were used after scientists identified the chemistry associated with bitterness from the o.g. commercial brussels sprouts back in the 1990s to try develop new cultivars that were far, far less bitter using lower yield & older, but tastier (traditional) varieties bred with higher yield (commercial), but bitter varieties.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20251216-hate-brussel-sprouts-you-may-be-living-in-the-past

there are lots of stories about it as a modern success of horticulture/plant science. people interpret it a lot of ways, but i think it's a good illustration of the tension between the demands of commercial production and the desire for palatability. the inverse would be the "red delicious" apple which grows like a champ and retains a beautiful coloring through transit, but tastes like fucking sawdust. if all someone ever ate were red delicious apples, they would think apples were total bullshit.