to want the person who recommended frozen brocolli to step forward...

[Bogeyface]

...and take their punishment?!

So, I tried it and it was GOPPING!

I think I'd only eat tinned veg if I were in a bunker due to a nuclear war

It just seems wrong

Well apart from baked beans that is

I like the word GOPPING. Frozen carrot is GOPPING too.

You know how robots in the good old days the sixties and seventies used to wind up and had a red flashing panel on the chest? Well, my brother and I called ours Mixed Vegetables because the flashes looked like the carrots on the tin label.

1972, eh? So you might know what I'm on about then.

Frozen broccoli is good and it doesn't go mushy if you cook it for a few minutes in the microwave.
do use fresh broccoli sometimes but it goes off very quickly.

Oh yes will have to add sweetcorn to the tinned list too

Frozen broccoli is nice if you bake it in the oven. It doesn't go mushy at all.

I won't eat peas unless they've hatched out of a tin. And they're fat.

"Garden" peas? Garden? No thanks.

I like my peas "processed". Cos I'm, um, posh

Frozen broccoli is horrible and smells bad unlike 'normal' broccoli.

Frozen petit pois are great though and frozen chopped leeks are great in soup.

Tinned green beans are lovely but only when thought of as a completely different entity to fresh green beans.

AnnoyingOrange: 'Freezing broccoli destroys the cell structure so it goes mushy when it's thawed'.

Is that a result from a scientific survey? Because I have never previously heard that freezing any vegetable 'destroys the cell structure'. Whatever that means, anyway.

To confirm a few things....I steamed it, and it was still gopping! Microwave is only used for baked beans, melting cheese and heating milk for hot choc, I wouldnt know how to cook veg in it!

and "GOPPING" refers to ......nasty, horrible tasting, something that you try to eat but actually makes you gag. It should actually be pronounced "Goppin'" as in "Eurrgghhh!! Thats goppin'"

thank you for your time.

PS. Frozen carrots are goppin' too, how can something be slimey on the outside, stringy on the inside and taste of absolutely nothing?

Do the ice crystals not damage the cell walls Princess? I've heard of that, I think.

In true MN fashion, I would like to inform all you frozen broccoli haters that I almost lost an eye while harvesting it. 1978, it was, I have the scar still. So, I'm deeply, personally wounded and hurt that so many of you can call it gopping.

OldLady did you not wait til it thawed before harvesting it?!

Nah MaryZ I'll stick with fresh in my steamer thanks, us old ladies cant cope with change :o

LOL, I knew I had worded that badly! It was fresh when harvested, then we had to cut it into florets and they were all sent off for freezing. Birds Eye, it was.

at frozen veg. I am having to resort to it right now, as my steamer broke two days ago. Even 13mo DS3 refused the frozen peas and sweetcorn I dished up tonight. He put one of each in his mouht, rolled them around, then spat them out and said 'sock' ?!

(I am not sure whether he meant that they tasted like socks, or that they made him feel sick...)

The rest of them got flicked across the room. I shall be buying a new steamer next week, and going back to my normal veg.

But frozen broccoli?! Doesn't it end up like slime when cooked? I was brought up on steamed veg - my nan steamed her veg, my mother steamed her veg, and I steam my veg. Even fresh boiled veg tastes yukky to me - so god knows how pukey I'd feel after attempting to eat frozen, boiled broccoli...

Ah, I see you did steam it. Can I steal your steamer? My dc are staging a 4-person demonstration against non-steamed veg right now, and I'm concerned they will get rickets if they refuse to eat any of the veg I am dishing up to them!!

Whoever has the rampant gardener needs to try drying the chillies or pickling them.

Cauliflower, broad beans and peas are nice frozen.