Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)

Next one - only info = between 1959-62 - No 17 = Angela Foote - No 28 Adeline Jobson ?

One awaits the harvest photos. We could start an annual online giant, photoshopped, vegetable show !

Buttered sprouts with chestnuts and bacon - ---------------------------------------------------- 1¼kg Brussels sprouts, trimmed (or if buying pre-trimmed, buy 1 kg) 6 rashers smoked streaky bacon, cut into bite-sized pieces (or use more, if you like) 200g vacuum-packed chestnut 50g butter -------------------------------------------------- Take the sprouts out, leaving the crispy, crunchie bacon + nutty bits and your on. Otherwise I'll stick to peas and carrots. ------------------------------------------------ Some of the Daily Telegraph Brussels sprout facts The area covered by Brussels sprout fields in the UK is the equivalent of 3,240 football pitches Last year, a team of scientists and local schoolchildren used the energy from 1,000 Brussels sprouts to light a Christmas tree on London's Southbank. In 2010, the British vegetable brandTozerseeds created a new vegetable called the Flowersprout, a hybrid of the Brussels sprout and kale that contains double the amount of vitamin B6 and vitamin C of traditional Brussels sprouts. In August, adventurer Stuart Kettell, 49, rolled a Brussels sprout to the top of Mt. Snowdon using only his nose, to raise money for Macmillan Cancer support. Sprout fan Linus Urbanec from Sweden holds the current world record for the most Brussels sprouts eaten in one minute. He swallowed 31 on November 26, 2008. The heaviest ever sprout was grown in 1992 and weighed 8.3kg (18lb/3oz).

Cheers Andy. I couldn't make up a plausible excuse for not seeing that link! Appointment booked with Specsavers.

Admin - current member, Keith, has not visited the forum since last year and has forgotten his password. How does he regain access to the site?

Please, please, please, CL negotiate a deal that prevents sprouts from being eaten anywhere except Brussels. Strike a bargain with Brussels - they can have the sole rights to sprouts; growing, boiling and eating, and Melton Mowbray can keep it's protected name for it's pies when we leave the EU. ( don't pull me up on this, I know the chairman of the Melton Mowbray Pork Pie Association Matthew O'Callaghan, who is also chairman of the UK Protected Food Names Association, said the protected status could be maintained). The European Union granted the Melton Mowbray Pork Pie protected status in 2008 which meant only pies made in the area could carry the label. This must also apply to Brussel's Sprouts Cutting an 'X' in the stem of a Brussels sprouts to aid cooking = Br-x-it. Is it only me that hates the taste, and the smell when cooking? If however the miners had of taken sprout sarnies down the pit then I am sure the smell of the sprout sarnies and the expulsion of the sprout gasses would have driven the 'shit-flies' out of the shaft and Symtoms wouldn't have his current project to prove how those flies survived the byeways of the pits.