To never buy broccoli again after reading Ocado reviews?

[SabineDeux]

I feel sick. Was just looking for best broccoli on Ocado and wondered why they are all low rated in the reviews. Most of the comments say the broccoli is full of worms and slugs!!!!!!! 🤢Can this be true? Have I been merrily eating worms all this time? I don't think I'll ever buy broccoli again. Grossed out.

I wouldn't buy it from there after seeing those reviews.

Go to a supermarket and choose your own broccoli?

Everybody who’s written ‘beasts’ - I keep reading as ‘breasts’.

This must explain the shelves full of yellow label reduced but perfectly fresh broccoli in Waitrose today. I got a bargain! A bit of added protein doesn't worry me too much.

I can count on one hand the number of times I've ever found any insect/grub on any veg or salad in the 40 years I've been prepping meals.
I love broccoli, especially the thick stalky bit which I eat raw dipped in celery salt. Best veg ever.

I once found half a black lump/hole/mass in a boiled potato. Having already eaten the other side of the half, I assume.

I buy broccoli every week from Ocado; never found any worms or slugs on it!

ZuZu
howling at the Jesus in the Cabbage Van thread! thank you!!!
(no Ocado here) :(

No. It will happen occasionally that you find some kind of work/slug in your broccoli but it you wash it throughly and have a good look before you cook it it's fine 95% of the time. Ocado broccoli is pretty rubbish though.

I have ocado broccoli every week and never once found a slug. I've found a caterpillar in a raspberry once – no idea where the raspberries were bought from though. I put me off raspberries for a while. Then I started checking each one before eating them. But now I just don't bother checking and figure if I don't actually see a caterpillar then I'll never know it was there.

Cant say I have ever found a creepy crawlie in broccoli. My ds both eat it raw so it gets a wash first anyway.
Should I feel deprived that I never got a 'free gift'?

Submerge broccoli at least 20 min and up to 1 hour in a sink of cold water to which you have added 1/4 c. of salt and 2 tbsp. of vinegar. The worms are immobilized and slide out of the broccoli.

joybileefarm.com/getting-rid-of-broccoli-worms/

That's what my mom always did for broccoli and cauliflower. I've never seen any beasts in my veggies.

I can count on one hand the number of times I've ever found any insect/grub on any veg or salad in the 40 years I've been prepping meals.

Yes, me too. (although I've been prepping meals for more like 25 years, but my point stands).

Sometimes I write a review of something mundane if the seller emails me and catches me in a quiet moment. Loo roll, for example.

Brocolli 'grows in the ground'? I think you are confusing a brocolli with a potato!

Brocolli grows about 2 foot above the ground. So do sprouts.

FFS.

And any veg may have wildlife in it. It's what slugs etc eat.

Bugs are what you risk getting when you buy vegetables grown without pesticides.

You can't get rid of both.

Just wash your vegetables, or look for crawleys.

ZuzuMyLittleGingersnap I can't believe the Jesus in the Cabbage Van was in 2012!

To this day I check the name on their vans! My most recent delivery was made by Ryan, but the van was plain yellow Not a cabbage in sight!

I think when the poster said "broccoli grows in the ground" she means that it's a plant, it grows in the fields and is planted in the earth rather than being something which is grown in a sterile laboratory.

that's the way I read it anyway.

If you grow your own, you do get the odd (or plentiful) green caterpillars at certain times of year, in among the 'tree branches'. Wash them off!
Seriously, pesticides cause far, far worse things.

Poppy
Me too. It does grow in the ground it just grows upwards not downwards or level

In all my years of happy broccoli eating, all I have ever encountered was one small steamed spider. Just wash it thoroughly!

On a side note, do you pronounce it broccol-ee or broccol-eye? My friend says broccol-eye and it drives me nuts!!

I've found a caterpillar in a raspberry once – no idea where the raspberries were bought from though

Those will be from the Raspberry Beetle.

And this is why we have so much waste, people didn't want bugs in their food, even though they're natural. They wanted an apple to look like a picture of an apple, a banana to be perfect so all the so called 'wonky veg' which tastes absolutely no different is rejected and wasted.

Our slugs are cheeky buggers. DD spent the summer crying because they always got to her strawberries before her. We ended up pouring the cheapest beer we could find in a supermarket (DH was bright red in his face when buying the can because he favours craft beers of the slightly more expensive kind and then it was my turn, so I walked into the local corner shop with my DD, grabbed a can of Dutch Gold, sorely tempted to say ""Yeah, but, no, but, yeah, but..." on repeat) and we filled two jars with it and put them into the ground. It was a great success amonst the local slug population who committed a very cheerful and boozy mass suicide in it. At least, unlike using the slug pellets, they died happy.

I always look carefully at the broccoli before I cook it and wash it thoroughly. Have a careful close look in between all the florets. That said, I haven't found anything untoward for years.

Haha - I am one of the saddos who left a bad review of broccoli on Ocado!

Mine was because it was ancient and dry and yellow, though. No beasties.

Ocado fruit and veg is normally pretty crap, though, or at least variable. It's one of the things they don't do well.

Buy frozen? No nasties that way.

Although I find frozen broccoli gross personally