Why don't Americans eat beets?

[BladeVenom]

Sugar beets are popular, after they have been turned into sugar.

 

[OutHouse]

The supermarket tends to sell beets which are ginormous and full of chemicals. A fresh, locally grown, ripe beet tastes wonderful. I think anyone who dislikes beets didn't get the right kind

lol yea ok,

 

[Anubis]

IDK WTF you are talking about i love beats

and Borscht is excellent

 

[Muse]

I'm not sure how popular it is in Western Europe.

Beetroot (I'm guessing its the same shit) is hell popular here, but people from Ireland and the UK have never seen it.

They're like 'WTF is this shit'?

Same with pumpkin. My Irish mate was like 'Pumpkins are for jack o'lanterns, not for eatin.'

lol

I pretty much agree with your Irish friend. Pumpkin pie can be very excellent, however. I used to grow pumpkins and then one year I had a volunteer plant that looked just like pumkpin but the fruit was much different, smaller, green/brown/grey with black vertical stripes. It was delicious (so infinitely better than pumpkin), it had excellent keeping properties. The flesh is denser than orange pumpkins, sweeter. I had no idea what it was and I spotted some at my local produce super market and was told they were kabochas, also known as Japanese pumpkins. I've been growing them exclusively ever since. My seeds are from the original, and I've planted some from a few kabochas I've bought at that same market, in order to expand the gene pool. I think some bees have brought in some foreign pollens, so that has added variety to the pool of plants I'm growing. They keep so well that I have these all year.

 

[Platypus]

we do.

/thread

 

[Muse]

The supermarket tends to sell beets which are ginormous and full of chemicals. A fresh, locally grown, ripe beet tastes wonderful. I think anyone who dislikes beets didn't get the right kind

You are making me consider planting some beets this year. I doubt the seeds I have would germinate. They must be a dozen years old, I'll have to buy a packet of seeds.

i like beets.

if you think beets get a bad rap, try rutabaga.

i love them, too.

Not sure I've ever eaten rutabaga. My local produce heavy supermarket (Berkeley Bowl) has an astounding variety of produce, including hundreds of things of which I've never partaken. I should make a point of trying something new on a regular basis. Usually I have little to no idea what I'd do with most of those things, however. The population here is extremely diverse. It's very common to hear people talking in strange languages.

 

[lozina]

I love the flavor of beets. Borscht, cooked beet salad, baked beets, beet root halwa (Indian dessert), I love it any way you can serve it.

 

[Anubis]

The supermarket tends to sell beets which are ginormous and full of chemicals. A fresh, locally grown, ripe beet tastes wonderful. I think anyone who dislikes beets didn't get the right kind

i generally agree with this statement but ive grown and purchased organic beets that are equally as massive as those in the supermarket

 

[Genx87]

When I was at school in Fargo. The beat trains would come through in the Spring. It made the entire area smell like a giant fart.

 

[Terabyte]

I love beets, but i don't think i've ever seen them on sale at
safeway and luckys o_o. and brussel sprouts are tasty too

 

[Miramonti]

Swiss chard...yum.

 

[Capt Caveman]

OK:

--Thai Pumpkin curry: tits
--Pumpkin bread: tits
--Pumpkin muffin: tits
--Pumpkin seeds: plump tits
--Pumpkin pie: big giant tits

etc

We have a great Afghani restaurant near us and Kaddo Bourani is the best pumpkin dish I've ever had. I could live off this stuff.

http://mikes-table.themulligans.org/2007/11/07/kaddo-bourani/

Baked pumpkin with yogurt and ground beef(or without) on top.

 

[HardcoreRobot]

the fact that you can find them in basically every single mass market grocery store contradicts your main assertion

 

[Iron Woode]

the fact that you can find them in basically every single mass market grocery store contradicts your main assertion

logical fallacy.

Just because they are sold in a lot of stores, doesn't mean everybody eats them.

 

[M0oG0oGaiPan]

BEAR McCreary is the composer who makes the BEATS for BSG.

 

[dr150]

I wouldn't brag about my wife having been in a child pornography ring. D:

I meant early twenties...not thinking when I write. LOL

 

[JimmiG]

Americans generally don't eat any food that isn't extremely fatty and/or sweet.

 

[surfsatwerk]

I meant early twenties...not thinking when I write. LOL

The government notes your hasty retraction and finds it wanting.

 

[waffleironhead]

grilled beets.

mmmmm goodness

 

[surfsatwerk]

Pickled Beets are yum yum in my tum tum.

 

[Rocksinhead]

Personally I've never even tried them. Not sure why. Maybe they just don't look like they'd be tasty. Maybe it's because I was never exposed to them growing up. Even watching Doug as a kid didn't push me to trying them and that show was pimping them haaaard. Only message I got from that was that I, too, needed more allowance.

 

[Muse]

Swiss chard...yum.

I used to grow it, but compared to beet greens and spinach, it's just trash.

 

[GrumpyMan]

Beets me why I don't like them.

 

[HardcoreRobot]

logical fallacy.

Just because they are sold in a lot of stores, doesn't mean everybody eats them.

what other conclusion could you draw from its being a mass market vegetable? im not claiming its america's favorite food, but stores arent really known for stocking unpopular products...

its not illogical at all to assume a product for sale in normal stores across the country is consumed more than specialty food like exotic asian veggies, which the OP suggests is more likely to be eaten than beets. There is no evidence to support the claim, and common sense undermines it in general.

 

[KMFJD]

for some reason Aussies put that shit on burgers, huge fail