Letter to the Editor

Just don't make me eat Brussels sprouts

Wednesday, December 4, 2019

Dear Editor,

Brussels sprouts are described as a vegetable that is related to the mustard plant. It tastes like cabbage and is related to cabbage as well as cauliflower.

Tall stocks are sent up from Brussels sprouts. Each stock has a tiny head of cabbage. They have the same food value as cabbage and have vitamins A, B and C.

My problem is that I don’t like Brussels sprouts. I would like to visit Belgium, but I just could not eat any Brussels sprouts. I would sample other foods.

Brussels sprouts like the cool, long growing season in that country. People gather them by snapping and twisting them off the stalk. They are so much like cabbage, the insects that attack cabbage also eat Brussels sprouts.

I would like to visit Belgium. Belgium has some excellent cooks. Many of their foods are the same as those found in France.

One specialty of cooks in Belgium is chicken soup with beer added to it. This does not appeal to me. However, they also prepare foods like herring, shrimp and oysters.

Festivals are important to the people in Belgium. Children look forward to Dec. 6, which is St. Nicholas Day.

Brussels is southeast of Antwerp, which is Belgium's largest city.

When I took Latin in high school, we had to translate a story about Julius Caesar conquering a tribe known as the Belgae. The land where they lived became Belgium.

Tourists spend time along the coast of the North Sea. If I visited there, I would have to brush up on my French.

However, it would be challenging, because of French dialect is spoken there.

Walloons live south of Brussels. I would enjoy traveling in Belgium. I just wouldn’t eat any Brussels sprouts, I don’t like the taste of them.

Helen Ruth Arnold,

Trenton, Neb.

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