Requiem for Broccoli

Whoever created this recipe must have had something against broccoli - or at least against you, should you like the woody vegetable.

Note how it calls for "frozen broccoli spears." Not fresh, oh no. Fresh broccoli might actually survive the cooking process.

And what a process it is! First, cook and drain it - and we all know what that means, don't we? Boil it until it can't stand up under it's own weight, like a deep-sea polyp vomited onto a beach after a hurricane. Drain it, and all it's goodness away with it, and then drown it under American "cheese," cream of mushroom soup, and condensed milk. Whatever taste the poor vegetable might have had will have sunk, forever lost in a blanket of bland, blander, and blandest.

Pause, and think of poor broccoli.