Stand up for sprouts

http://twitter.com/TeriDoubtfire Teri Doubtfire

Every 48 seconds a sprout will be abandoned across dinner plates in Britain… please stand up for sprouts this Christmas!
http://digitaljalapeno.com Ashley Clarke

Please help join us and make a stand against the needless harm and abandonment of Fernando and his sprout amigos this Christmas. Thank you.
Simon

Leave sprouts in the ground where they belong!
http://twitter.com/RochelleDancel Rochelle Dancel

I think sprouts should be left alone… and, more to the point, off my dinner plate.
http://twitter.com/LondonKirsty Kirsty Marrins

Um…I really like eating sprouts…with bacon and walnuts! Does this make me barbaric?!

http://twitter.com/rachelbeer Rachel Beer

Quite sickeningly so. I’m calling the RSPCS…

http://twitter.com/jacquiobeirne Jacqui Darlow

Leave the sprouts alone!
Andrew Shepherd

Every Christmas morning I was forced to peel and carve crosses in the little fellas. I was too scared to ask whether is was a ritualistic thing, some cruel joke or simply to let them be cooked better. Furthermore I have grown to enjoy eating them – which I now know is wrong. Is there some where I can go for conversion therapy? I have waited 32 years to confess this – I hope in time the sprout community will come to forgive me.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=696090608 Alexandra Roumbas Goldstein

In the words of Roger McGough:

Vegetarians are cruel, unthinking people.
Everybody knows that a carrot screams when grated.
That a peach bleeds when torn apart.
Do you believe an orange insensitive
to thumbs gouging out its flesh?
That tomatoes spill their brains painlessly?
Potatoes, skinned alive and boiled,
the soil’s little lobsters.
Don’t tell me it doesn’t hurt
when peas are ripped from the scrotum,
the hide flayed off sprouts,
cabbage shredded, onions beheaded.

Throw in the trowel
and lay down the hoe.
Mow no more
Let my people go!
http://twitter.com/jon_bedford Jonathan Waddingham

A sprout isn’t just for Christmas? To be honest, I can’t think of a time that a sprout *is* for. So just leave them alone, ok?
http://twitter.com/salleeann Sally Chambers

Jamie Oliver – MOST WANTED! Brussels in a food processor – http://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/other-recipes/brussels-with-hustle. Oh the humanity!
P.S. Looks quite tasty though

http://twitter.com/rachelbeer Rachel Beer

Sprouts in a *food processor*?? I suppose it allows you to suspend your conscience, as they don’t look like sprouts anymore…

http://twitter.com/pontoondock Mark Morton

As someone with ancestors from Brussels, I’m appalled at the annual waste of my national dish. STAND UP FOR SPROUTS!
Paul de Gregorio

Like little green brains….. yummy…..
Matt Collins

Sprouts are the best bit of Christmas dinner, they just have an ugly name is all. Woo sprouts!

http://twitter.com/katelister Kate Lister

Matt speaks the truth! Sprouts Rule!

http://twitter.com/RoxyMartinique Danielle Atkinson

You can’t beat a sprout! Love them! Even my niece likes them – “They’re just baby cabbages Daddy. You have to eat them.”
Anonymous

Bit of bacon and stir fried in chilli and butter. YUM
http://twitter.com/Skipinder Lesley Pinder

Spouts. Walnuts. Pancetta. Garlic. FTW!
http://twitter.com/TeriDoubtfire Teri Doubtfire

Shocked and appalled by all those committed to this barbaric tradition… and inventing new forms of torture. Burnt with chilli? Drowned with lemon juice? Suffocated by garlic? Just say no! #standupforsprouts
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=658771501 Adam Waller

All of the recipes proffered below are merely ways of masking the true taste of sprouts.

http://twitter.com/rachelbeer Rachel Beer

Exactly.

http://www.facebook.com/simon.frank Simon Frank

Take one well-worn sports sock. Leave it inside a running shoe for two weeks.. Dip it in milk. Allow it to dry on top of a radiator. Take a sniff: bouquet de sprouts!

http://twitter.com/RochelleDancel Rochelle Dancel

That’s disgusting!! :/

http://twitter.com/RobmDyson Rob Dyson

I throw my support behind #standupforsprouts; the needless culling of sprouts – some before they are adults – is a bloodsport that masquerades as a ‘festive’ tradition. Veg is murder, as Morrissey probably wouldn’t say.
http://twitter.com/rachelbeer Rachel Beer

It seems Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall has the inside track on the mistreatment of sprouts. He asks, ‘Why were they ever so abused? And still are? It’s surely part of a secret conspiracy designed to keep the precious bonsai cabbages for some malevolent sprout overlord and his sinister followers.’

He really did say that.

Honestly.

Look: http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2010/nov/13/brussels-sprouts-recipes-fearnley-whittingstall
Joseph Freeman

SAVE OUR SPROUTS.
http://twitter.com/meanwritehook Anthony Leung

Don’t get sad. Get mad. http://ow.ly/i/nVtD
http://twitter.com/OllieFD Ollie Drackford

Poor bastards. Forever living in the shadows of pigs in blankets and roast potatoes. This year, is their year to shine.
http://twitter.com/nickiewren Nickie Wren

Save the sprouts – leave them in their fields. Best place for them!
http://twitter.com/rebekahhah Rebekah Hah

I’m Chinese, which means I eat pretty much anything. Sprouts included. They taste fine if you cook them right. Sorry. #standupforsprouts
http://twitter.com/LondonKirsty Kirsty Marrins

Sprouts Rule!! Long live Sprouts!
http://twitter.com/projectfriendly Simon Saunders

Juicy, fresh, taut, pert, luscious, moist – they’re standing up for themselves already. You can #standupforsprouts at http://totallygone.com/sprouts-on-broadway/

In a recent survey, nobody liked sprouts.