to think that Brussels Sprouts are not "salad"?

[Portofino]

Along with cold cauliflower and brocolli ?

My Belgian workplace canteen appears to have a difference in opinion and has all these things in the salad bar. I know they have some damn strange things on the menu from time to time - but COLD sprouts!

Sprouts are bad enough hot.
So YANBU

Eeeew! No, sprouts are "roast dinner", and that's a fact . YANBU!

Oh no !!

I love cold sprouts served as a salad

During our all-inclusive holiday this year, there were some great leftovers from the evening meal served up cold in a "salad" the next day

I am serious, btw

I happen to love cold veg, so there you go

I have to confess to eating cold leftover sprouts dipped in cold leftover gravy on many a Boxing Day morning but no YADNBU with expecting them not to be in a salad!!!

They're just like cabbage and you eat coleslaw, don't you? I probably wouldn't eat brocolli raw but cauliflower is okay.

broccoli - ok. cauli - ok. Sprouts ? no.

DH made sweet and sour sprouts once - I have never forgiven him !

oh, I have leftover cold sprouts and gravy on a butty

yum

I will never eat in Belgium. Unless it's waffles.

A girl I work with eats an entire head of RAW broccoli dipped in hummus every evening on her break

I just knew this would be about Belgium!

We had a house warming party when we lived in Birmingham and my Flemish dh insisted on having raw cauliflower as a dip. My student friends got drunk and kept on throwing it at each other! They just wanted to eat the Pringles.

Have you had Witloof in a salad yet?

Hassled that is such a shame because the food here is fab! All restaurants are of a similar high standard; the belgians are very proud of their cooking.

Raw cauliflower is really nice - chopped up and served with a dip.

Sprouts, either raw, cooked or coated in gold, are the work of a spectacularly farty little Imp and should be avoided at all times.

Belgo Witloof is the foodstuff of the devil!

And I must just add that the cauli and brocolli, and sprouts for that matter, weren't raw, but COOKED, then served cold.

Bunny - that must do interesting things to her digestive system

belgo - I didn't mean to cause offense - I was just scared off by the sprouts!

Is Belgian food better than German? Because much as I loved Berlin, and much as all the Germans I met there were great, the food was terrible. The nicest thing I ate was a pizza.

There is some lovely Belgian food! Not just the waffles.

This recipe sounds good if you are feeling a little constipated.

Chips and mayonnaise. What's not to love about that?

Also had the best musselss ever in brussels (that is not a rhyming joke, the mussels were brilliant).

Also had some cherry flavoured beer, which was disgusting.

Kriek!

The belgians do love their vegetables. And cake. and chips.

In fact they love all food, so why are the women so slim?

I am always amazed by the trays at lunch. No way could I eat that much food at lunchtime! Well unless it was eaten slowly, accompanied by wine and followed by a lie down at least. I guess they just eat witloof or a spoonful of nutella in the evening....?

Ditto with the mussels, next time GetOrf try peach beer, far superior!

OP, YANBU, although like some other posters I am quite taken by leftover sprouts and gravy, all cold, yum yum. But not disguised as salad, out and proud for all to see.

You can't taste the sprouts anyhow whilst passive-smoking toxic Belgian cigarettes.

Sprouts are the devils bogeys. End of.

I hated sprouts as a DC but love them now and think that almost any veg can go in a salad.

DH made some Brussels sprout pickles following an NZ recipe. The book recommended them as cocktail hors d'oeuvres. :o