>To produce the glowing effect, researchers injected jellyfish DNA into a mother rabbit's embryos. Those altered embryos were then inserted back into the mother. Similar experiments have resulted in glowing cockroaches and cats.
Damn, if you asked me how to make glowing rabbits that's probably what I would have came up with in like 30 seconds lol. "Like maybe just scoop up some glowy DNA from a glowy animal and then like.. inject it into a bunny embryo?". Can't believe it actually worked. They should inject a human embryo with some lobster DNA, maybe the baby will come out immortal... [or maybe..](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/89/89/a6/8989a6fe560a199fcc887756ccad0e83.jpg)
All I know is those Cotton Candy grapes are *delicious*, I think grapery is the brand. I was skeptical at first but holy shit, in that case they played god and won.
I've always wondered this with bubblegum flavored medicines. I always gagged on it as a kid because instinctively I knew I wasn't supposed to be swallowing gum.
I second this. I don't feel the instinct to spit out bubblegum flavored things. I did however feel the instinct to spit out nastiness (aka uck, yuck, ick)
seriously this is a crime. Broccoli is awesome on its own if prepped right with dip. This looks more like a poor tree defiled by a beet. The root of evil.
I will argue that broccoli is awesome on it's own... But I also recognize my goofy ass sitting in my grandma's garden eating all the vegetables straight off the plant may be an outlier
Beets can be great too. I think people are mostly used to the over boiled and/or pickled stuff from nasty salad bars; but a good roasted beet dish, or a beet salad with them correctly prepared can be glorious.
I think I had pickled beets and didn't like them so I never ate beets for a while. Then I had plain beets from a can and they are pretty good. They taste how I imagine dirt would taste if we ate dirt but somehow I still like them. I guess it's an "earthy" taste.
Fun fact: in Michigan we have something called a Greek salad but it's not the typical Greek salad (tomato, cucumber, olive oil, feta, olives, red onion). In Michigan it's a lettuce-based salad with (plain) beets, feta, olives, greek dressing, cherry tomato, cucumber, pepperoncini, feta, red onion.
How do you make vegetables appealing to kids? How about you, gee, I don't know, SEASON THEM? Plate them nicely? Pair them with other desirable foods???
Fun fact about brussel sprouts. The ones we all hated in the 90's and earlier are not the same strain as the ones sold now. They created a much less bitter variety which has become the standard sold in stores, which is a major reason why people find they suddenly love brussel sprouts.
That makes sense. I remember as a kid brussel sprouts were the epitome of "gross vegetables", but then as an adult I had them at a restaurant made with seasoning/garlic/parmesan and holy fuck it was the greatest thing ever
Honestly kale is not the most offensive veggie to me. I’m not out here saying I enjoy a plain kale salads but idk Brussel sprouts are evil. People love to be like you’re cooking them wrong! I hate them all ways.
I like vegetables, but broccolini has made me gagged even after good seasoning. The bitterness doesn’t do it for me. Brussels sprouts is up there with it.
It's all relative, I switched from cooking with seed oils to cooking with butter because it's healthier. Now I eat red meat and copious amounts of butter all the time and feel way better than when I ate a bunch of processed crap and fast food.
I'll say. My mom made broccoli stir-fried with shrimp and I was addicted as a child. Those florets would be perfect for sopping up the flavor! You just have to treat any vegetable as you would treat a nice piece of meat. With respect.
My mum did salmon, broccoli, cabbage and carrot stir fry with ginger and soy. I loved cabbage until I went to school and they boiled it until it was grey.
Seriously, my niece is turning 3 soon and she LOVES veggies. Might have to do with the fact that her moms love them too, love cooking and using a lot of different spices. People still tell them they're "so lucky" when they see my niece enjoying her healthy meals...
Edit: also they gave her the same things they eat themselves pretty much as soon as she started eating solids, at least partly (cooked meat was introduced much later, raw meat & fish is still not part of her diet, etc.) and almost never gave her bland steamed veggies
This is really the thing. treat them right. If all you do is toss a steamer bag in the microwave then dump it in a bowl and the kids hate it, well gee I wonder why. It needs salt, possibly fat, and a few other flavors to go with.
Broccoli has a natural bitterness to it, and all cabbages have a swampy nature if they are not cooked properly (either you boil the shit out of them or you barely cook them). Using some salt and savory elements, and possibly some spice, will do wonders to make it more palatable.
I don't usually cook broccoli but I cook cabbage all the time. I boil it in pork stock with tons of mustard, caraway, and sesame. Then it's served with pork sausage and slightly spicy homemade gravy.
Bubble gum flavored broccoli sounds like about the most revolting thing I can imagine.
I liked broccoli as a kid. I was eating trees! How cool is that?
Boiling vegetables other than potatoes is probably not a great way to cook them.
Stir fried veggies, steamed veggies, and roasted veggies are all vastly superior to boiled.
The older generations were really big on boiling everything to a mush, I think it was to make sure any parasites are dead as food safety wasn't as strict back then. Unless you're making a stew boiling veggies doesn't make sense, most of the nutrients will get flushed out in the water.
If you're a terrible cook, this has the opposite effect. Whenever your kid has a choice, they will choose to not eat vegetables because they "know" from experience that they taste horrible. It'll be decades before they realize what they've been missing out on.
It's even more gross when you read how they did it. They didn't genetically change the broccoli or anything. They *seasoned* it with **bubblegum flavored seasoning powder**.
I can think of nothing more fucking disgusting sounding than broccoli covered in bubblegum powder...
The way everything out there has a bubblegum flavor version, my theory is it must be easy to make things taste like it. Like when I was a child they only had grape flavored children's Tylenol. I still can't stand grape flavored items.... But then early teens they came out with a bubblegum flavor and that was so nice comparatively.
Again, not exactly "appropriate" for the sub, so not going to do exact quotes, but got accused of being a kid....handler. Also got told in no uncertain terms that I wasn't funny, deserved bad things, and to take a long walk off a short pier.
Again, paraphrasing HEAVILY. But they were blocked, removed from my DM's, and now it's no longer an issue.
Edit: not interested in rehashing this anymore. I appreciate the outreach and support, but it's been handled.
Alright so that’s not an actual picture of the alleged bubblegum flavored broccoli then. Still, I’d like to know more about the specifics on how they went about this. Was it genetically modified to grow sweet or did they do something to regular broccoli that made it that way? And was it sweet because of sugar or something else? Obviously adding sugar kinda defeats the purpose 😆 I know you likely don’t have the answer to these questions, but if any McDonalds insides stumble across this and wanna spill the beans, I’m all ears lol
According to the two articles I read about this McDonald’s asked flavor experts and food scientists, not geneticists or botanists. My inclination is that the broccoli was regular and had a powder added before packaging, such that when they ate it in the store it would taste like bubble gum
[https://www.southernliving.com/moon-drop-grapes-6834509](https://www.southernliving.com/moon-drop-grapes-6834509)
Super sweet and the grape flavor is more intense. Created by the same folks who created the Cotton Candy grapes. You can only get them in the fall for a short period.
I'm sure, although I have just remembered that it was pizza flavoured sweetcorn and chocolate flavoured carrots, which I hope we can agree is worse
Edit: it was called "wacky veg"
Yeah this unlocked the same childhood memory for me. I’m sure they did chocolate flavoured carrots too that were disgusting and ironically put me off carrots for years.
Oh absolutely. I don't know what you have to do to a carrot to make it taste like chocolate but evidently it is against god's wishes and children instinctively know this
If you’ve ever tasted some high temp charred broccoli or cauliflower with some salt and oil it’s damn amazing we make two sheet pans at a time and our kids gobble them up
Several studies into how cultural background factors into kids like or dislike of vegetables show that kids growing up in western cultures (US as a sample) absolutely hate veggies compared to south America and Asia. While these studies do a poor job specifying why, it reasonable to assume the consistency and quality of the local cultural cuisine has a big influence.
Kids love food that tastes awesome. Big surprise. Broccoli boiled to death and thrown on the side of a bland, packet mashed potatoes isn’t going to convince anyone, let alone a picky toddler that just that afternoon discovered the taste of a quarterpounder with cheese or doritos chips.
Cook right, healthy, balanced and delicious foods, and you won’t need whatever the fuck a bubble gum tasting broccoli from McDonalds of all places is supposed to be. And don’t fucking take your kids to McDonalds to begin with.
Cook an awesome stir-fry rich in veggies with oyster sauce, soy-sauce, a dash of sugar and white or fried rice on the side, and watch those kids gobble up broccoli, corn, red pepper and whatever veggie they usually would hate to eat.
When I was about four, I spent a day with my nan and then afterwards told my mum we'd gone to McDonald's. Believable, until I insisted that my nan had eaten broccoli. Which obviously you can't get in McDonald's.
Interesting that they considered it once!
Color me a bit skeptical. You'd think somebody would have leaked a few seeds and we'd know about it today.
More likely they tried spraying bubblegum flavoring onto a cultivar of red broccoli.
In the mid to late 90s, Iceland (a UK budget supermarket) made chocolate flavoured carrots, pizza flavoured corn and cheese & onion flavoured cauliflower (which *could* be OK?). My then girlfriend had a four year old kid and she bought the chocolate carrots for him. I tried one. They were vile. (no surprise there!)
Mentioned in a reddit post here...
https://www.reddit.com/r/CasualUK/comments/bmiy9k/anyone_else_remember_icelands_wacky_veg_chocolate/
My eight-year-old literally said just an hour ago, “maybe when I’m older, they’ll have a McDonald’s that will taste the same as junk food but it will be healthy. I would eat at McDonald’s every day” and then I saw this. Please bring me the broccoli gum, McDonalds, I beg you.
All I heard is McDonalds tried to play God and lost.
Wouldn't be the first time, or the last
The father, the sub, and the holy mcspirit
He died for our noms
Just like McMartin Luker King Jr.
He had a McDream.
I used to read Burger up magazine The burger king all up in the limosine
I think we need to see a McDonald's themed last supper painting now
Everyone clutching their heart and in need of medical attention.
The Clown, the Sub and the Holy Sprite
Except usually when do that, they win. I give you skinless apples that never go brown and hamburgers that never go moldy
McDonalds already won the game, now they're just getting achievements
Their scientists were so preoccupied with whether they McCould, they didn't stop to think if they McShould
"Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds" ~ Ray Kroc
They didn't make it [glowy enough.](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/13/glow-in-dark-rabbits-scientists)
>To produce the glowing effect, researchers injected jellyfish DNA into a mother rabbit's embryos. Those altered embryos were then inserted back into the mother. Similar experiments have resulted in glowing cockroaches and cats. Damn, if you asked me how to make glowing rabbits that's probably what I would have came up with in like 30 seconds lol. "Like maybe just scoop up some glowy DNA from a glowy animal and then like.. inject it into a bunny embryo?". Can't believe it actually worked. They should inject a human embryo with some lobster DNA, maybe the baby will come out immortal... [or maybe..](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/89/89/a6/8989a6fe560a199fcc887756ccad0e83.jpg)
Finally, some Crablante love
Maybe things would have turned out differently if people just *loved* Crablante instead of drawing nipples on him with a permanent marker
I kinda want to try it though.
All I know is those Cotton Candy grapes are *delicious*, I think grapery is the brand. I was skeptical at first but holy shit, in that case they played god and won.
I've eaten grapes for ages, and they're the only green grapes I've had that are sweet.
But you’re not supposed to swallow bubblegum! So do they chew up the broccoli and then spit it out, or does this train them to swallow gum?
We will never get an answer for this important question
Or do they try blowing bubbles with chewed up broccoli, and spray green shit everywhere?
Its pink are you stupid
There are loads of bubblegum flavoured sweets and ice cream that you don't instinctively spit out
I do
Lol. What do you do with grapefruits?
I think about them
Be the change you wish to see in the world
For real, out of all the flavors in the world to use on broccoli, the choice of "bubblegum" is astounding.
Astoundingly awful. I gagged when I saw this post
It's not that bad to swallow gum. I've done it since a kid and haven't died even once
That you know of
No, my doctor said that I'm allergic to dying so I made sure to avoid it at all costs.
Smart. Do they give you a note for that or..?.
Bubblegum flavored ice cream exists
I've always wondered this with bubblegum flavored medicines. I always gagged on it as a kid because instinctively I knew I wasn't supposed to be swallowing gum.
I gagged cause it was nasty, I understood that it was just supposed to taste like gum, not actually be gum lol
I second this. I don't feel the instinct to spit out bubblegum flavored things. I did however feel the instinct to spit out nastiness (aka uck, yuck, ick)
Yeah I can and have eaten pints out of time of bubble gum ice cream never had the urge to spit out anything
seriously this is a crime. Broccoli is awesome on its own if prepped right with dip. This looks more like a poor tree defiled by a beet. The root of evil.
"Broccoli is awesome on its own... with dip." So to reiterate, it's not awesome on its own.
I will argue that broccoli is awesome on it's own... But I also recognize my goofy ass sitting in my grandma's garden eating all the vegetables straight off the plant may be an outlier
So just like lobster
Beets can be great too. I think people are mostly used to the over boiled and/or pickled stuff from nasty salad bars; but a good roasted beet dish, or a beet salad with them correctly prepared can be glorious.
Slavic beet soup, svekolnic is mad tasty, on par with borscht
In my country we have beet salad made with fermented herring, onions and apples. Tastes amazing.
I think I had pickled beets and didn't like them so I never ate beets for a while. Then I had plain beets from a can and they are pretty good. They taste how I imagine dirt would taste if we ate dirt but somehow I still like them. I guess it's an "earthy" taste. Fun fact: in Michigan we have something called a Greek salad but it's not the typical Greek salad (tomato, cucumber, olive oil, feta, olives, red onion). In Michigan it's a lettuce-based salad with (plain) beets, feta, olives, greek dressing, cherry tomato, cucumber, pepperoncini, feta, red onion.
I swear swallowing it causes no harm , always have done always will
Sounds like every power bottom ready to get his turn
You can swallow gum, the idea that you cannot is a misconception
Exactly. This idea was not thought out very well.
Dayamn
How do you make vegetables appealing to kids? How about you, gee, I don't know, SEASON THEM? Plate them nicely? Pair them with other desirable foods???
Cheesy broccoli was my gateway drug to liking broccoli as a kid.
brussel sprouts with butter sauce for me. drown those veggies!
Fun fact about brussel sprouts. The ones we all hated in the 90's and earlier are not the same strain as the ones sold now. They created a much less bitter variety which has become the standard sold in stores, which is a major reason why people find they suddenly love brussel sprouts.
That makes sense. I remember as a kid brussel sprouts were the epitome of "gross vegetables", but then as an adult I had them at a restaurant made with seasoning/garlic/parmesan and holy fuck it was the greatest thing ever
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ooh, i never know that! i'm gonna do some research on this because this is legitimately interesting
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I have to be careful with brussel sprouts, cause I'd straight up eat these or pan fried in butter to an unhealthy degree, so damn good
Even in the 2000s those still were too bitter for me. Didnt help that my parents liked them steamed for some god awful reason.
Maple syrup bacon
Have you moved on to harder vegetables like kale?
Jesus dude, there are kids in this sub
It's been exactly 3 months since my last daikon. I'm trying to stay strong but the temptation is always there.
I can see that going two different ways
Honestly kale is not the most offensive veggie to me. I’m not out here saying I enjoy a plain kale salads but idk Brussel sprouts are evil. People love to be like you’re cooking them wrong! I hate them all ways.
I like vegetables, but broccolini has made me gagged even after good seasoning. The bitterness doesn’t do it for me. Brussels sprouts is up there with it.
I didn't even need that. My mother just said they looked like little trees in my Land Before Time phase.
My 5 year old asks for cheesy cauliflower every day. Green Giant has a frozen one you just microwave for 4 minutes.
My parents thought plain ol steamed broccoli with no seasoning was the way to get me to like healthy food lol.
Dude, broccoli with Velveeta cheese sauce was the bomb. Broccoli cheese soup.... mmmm.
Cheesy broccoli was my gateway drug to my current cheese addiction. :)
I know a kid who "suddenly got picky" but what I think happened is now that he's 5 he doesn't want his food cold and mashed up and separated anymore.
"I don't understand, my child used to eat every flavor of baby food there is, but now they suddenly got picky!"
"My child loves crunchy green beans and carrots but hates this boiled to mush, unseasoned spinach or broccoli, is my child picky?"
Cook 'em in butter. Easy peasy.
That's how you make most things good.
But then the health benefits go down
It's all relative, I switched from cooking with seed oils to cooking with butter because it's healthier. Now I eat red meat and copious amounts of butter all the time and feel way better than when I ate a bunch of processed crap and fast food.
I once pan fried my pizza rolls in butter. Let me tell you, I was not thinking about the health benefits.
Yes you were; just it was mental health benefits
I'll say. My mom made broccoli stir-fried with shrimp and I was addicted as a child. Those florets would be perfect for sopping up the flavor! You just have to treat any vegetable as you would treat a nice piece of meat. With respect.
My mum did salmon, broccoli, cabbage and carrot stir fry with ginger and soy. I loved cabbage until I went to school and they boiled it until it was grey.
Roasted or grilled broccoli with olive oil, salt, and pepper is delicious and very easy. One of my favorite sides for steaks.
Just reading that made me salivate and now I want roasted broccoli 🤤
Seriously, my niece is turning 3 soon and she LOVES veggies. Might have to do with the fact that her moms love them too, love cooking and using a lot of different spices. People still tell them they're "so lucky" when they see my niece enjoying her healthy meals... Edit: also they gave her the same things they eat themselves pretty much as soon as she started eating solids, at least partly (cooked meat was introduced much later, raw meat & fish is still not part of her diet, etc.) and almost never gave her bland steamed veggies
This is really the thing. treat them right. If all you do is toss a steamer bag in the microwave then dump it in a bowl and the kids hate it, well gee I wonder why. It needs salt, possibly fat, and a few other flavors to go with. Broccoli has a natural bitterness to it, and all cabbages have a swampy nature if they are not cooked properly (either you boil the shit out of them or you barely cook them). Using some salt and savory elements, and possibly some spice, will do wonders to make it more palatable. I don't usually cook broccoli but I cook cabbage all the time. I boil it in pork stock with tons of mustard, caraway, and sesame. Then it's served with pork sausage and slightly spicy homemade gravy.
Bubble gum flavored broccoli sounds like about the most revolting thing I can imagine. I liked broccoli as a kid. I was eating trees! How cool is that?
Actually cook them? Boiled veg is depressing
Boiling vegetables other than potatoes is probably not a great way to cook them. Stir fried veggies, steamed veggies, and roasted veggies are all vastly superior to boiled.
The older generations were really big on boiling everything to a mush, I think it was to make sure any parasites are dead as food safety wasn't as strict back then. Unless you're making a stew boiling veggies doesn't make sense, most of the nutrients will get flushed out in the water.
No, make them taste like the toothpaste at the dentist's office!
Or just simply teach kids to eat all kinds of natural foods from young age.
This would be easier if they didn't boil the green beans into mush.
If you're a terrible cook, this has the opposite effect. Whenever your kid has a choice, they will choose to not eat vegetables because they "know" from experience that they taste horrible. It'll be decades before they realize what they've been missing out on.
Why would someone want to eat bubblegum. Out of all the flavors they chose to pick the one that is usually not eaten.. facepalm moment
They’re McDonald’s they should have made like beef flavoured broccoli or potato flavoured. Now that would be interesting
Make it taste like their “natural flavors” they use for their nuggets.
It's even more gross when you read how they did it. They didn't genetically change the broccoli or anything. They *seasoned* it with **bubblegum flavored seasoning powder**. I can think of nothing more fucking disgusting sounding than broccoli covered in bubblegum powder...
That sounds worse because like the broccoli still tastes like broccoli everywhere else except the outside surface.
Agreed. Bubblegum flavored broccoli sounds really gross.
The way everything out there has a bubblegum flavor version, my theory is it must be easy to make things taste like it. Like when I was a child they only had grape flavored children's Tylenol. I still can't stand grape flavored items.... But then early teens they came out with a bubblegum flavor and that was so nice comparatively.
Meanwhile everyone in Asia making brocolli taste bomb af by just knowing how to use and add spices
Bubblegum flavored ice cream exists
Yes, I can see how child testers were confused about how the children tasted. Edit: hate mail? Really?
If you’re getting hate mail for this, I’d love to speak with the haters lol. People are stupid af
Much love for that, but I got it covered 😁
Can we get an example of how somebody turned this into hate mail?
Again, not exactly "appropriate" for the sub, so not going to do exact quotes, but got accused of being a kid....handler. Also got told in no uncertain terms that I wasn't funny, deserved bad things, and to take a long walk off a short pier. Again, paraphrasing HEAVILY. But they were blocked, removed from my DM's, and now it's no longer an issue. Edit: not interested in rehashing this anymore. I appreciate the outreach and support, but it's been handled.
Man I never get hate mail, what am I doing wrong?
Bro If you want some hate mail check out my comment history for some tips. It's all gg E Z P Z for me.
The hell? It's been 17 minutes and someone sent you hate mail?
Yep. Some people don't like jokes apparently.
What'd they say
The long and short of it was they thought I was being a sick person to bring up child related humor. Oh well (shrug). Blocked, based and red pilled.
You depraved knave! /s
Unclean! Filthy, dirty peasants! /S
Ha ha ha I guess I'm sometimes dealing with strange people on this app too lol it explains so e strange interactions I have had
No kidding 😂 Reddit is a wacky place at times, but I just learn to roll with it.
I think you did good mate
The best jokes always trigger people and cause controversy
/r/notkenm
[Source ](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/why-mcdonalds-created-bubble-gum-flavored-broccoli/)
Alright so that’s not an actual picture of the alleged bubblegum flavored broccoli then. Still, I’d like to know more about the specifics on how they went about this. Was it genetically modified to grow sweet or did they do something to regular broccoli that made it that way? And was it sweet because of sugar or something else? Obviously adding sugar kinda defeats the purpose 😆 I know you likely don’t have the answer to these questions, but if any McDonalds insides stumble across this and wanna spill the beans, I’m all ears lol
According to the two articles I read about this McDonald’s asked flavor experts and food scientists, not geneticists or botanists. My inclination is that the broccoli was regular and had a powder added before packaging, such that when they ate it in the store it would taste like bubble gum
And suddenly it becomes a whole lot less interesting, and a whole lot more moronic
very much so
So it's not flavored it's just seasoned Maybe try a savory seasoning for a savory food, weirdos
Ick
Ever heard if Cotton Candy grapes? We have them in NorCal. Some crazy farmer made them. Sooooo good.
Yeah, but have you had Moon Drops?
Explain. Gonna need more info.
[https://www.southernliving.com/moon-drop-grapes-6834509](https://www.southernliving.com/moon-drop-grapes-6834509) Super sweet and the grape flavor is more intense. Created by the same folks who created the Cotton Candy grapes. You can only get them in the fall for a short period.
Same people? They are grape hackers!!!!!!!
How strange. It’s not like anyone wants to eat a plate of bubblegum. What next? We’ll make milk taste like Listerine?
Right? Bubblegum is one of the worst flavors I can think of that is actually enjoyed by people. I cant trust a bubblegum lover. I much prefer broccoli
I genuinely thought this was a shitpost. Absurd
This is absolutely cursed
maybe the kids would like broccoli better if their parents knew how to cook
We had a brief spell of exposure to these kinds of products in the UK when I was young. Anyone remember pizza flavoured carrots?
Hmm not at all - are you sure you didn't dream it?
I'm sure, although I have just remembered that it was pizza flavoured sweetcorn and chocolate flavoured carrots, which I hope we can agree is worse Edit: it was called "wacky veg"
Yeah this unlocked the same childhood memory for me. I’m sure they did chocolate flavoured carrots too that were disgusting and ironically put me off carrots for years.
Oh absolutely. I don't know what you have to do to a carrot to make it taste like chocolate but evidently it is against god's wishes and children instinctively know this
How to make sure that kids eat healthily by taking something healthy and pumping it with artificial chemicals
May have been from selective breeding or more likely sugar sweetener that is bubblegum flavoured the plant takes up
Just try cooking it properly. Ie Not a soggy mess
Look, I get what it means, but the phrase "child testers" is both hilarious and horrifying to me.
If you’ve ever tasted some high temp charred broccoli or cauliflower with some salt and oil it’s damn amazing we make two sheet pans at a time and our kids gobble them up
TIL you can throw up in your mouth just by reading the title of a post.
What in the Willy Wankster is this
Several studies into how cultural background factors into kids like or dislike of vegetables show that kids growing up in western cultures (US as a sample) absolutely hate veggies compared to south America and Asia. While these studies do a poor job specifying why, it reasonable to assume the consistency and quality of the local cultural cuisine has a big influence. Kids love food that tastes awesome. Big surprise. Broccoli boiled to death and thrown on the side of a bland, packet mashed potatoes isn’t going to convince anyone, let alone a picky toddler that just that afternoon discovered the taste of a quarterpounder with cheese or doritos chips. Cook right, healthy, balanced and delicious foods, and you won’t need whatever the fuck a bubble gum tasting broccoli from McDonalds of all places is supposed to be. And don’t fucking take your kids to McDonalds to begin with. Cook an awesome stir-fry rich in veggies with oyster sauce, soy-sauce, a dash of sugar and white or fried rice on the side, and watch those kids gobble up broccoli, corn, red pepper and whatever veggie they usually would hate to eat.
Or make a wonderful tasting soup.
Lol omg i know how this must taste... You know the stuff they put into porta pottys? Go figure
Broccoli tastes nice, though. And if you cook it well, it's so crispy and watery. Good shit.
A friend has the strange issue that her 2 year old only wants to eat fresh broccoli. She was complaining about the cost of this.
Don't get it. My son often asks for broccoli because he likes his trees. I guess the key is proper preparation.
This sounds like an idea some out of touch over compensated investor would pitch.
Bubble gum literally has got to be one of the worst flavors I have ever tasted…. How people CHOOSE the flavor of bubblegum is beyond me
Just recently I discovered cotton candy flavour grapes and it completely blew my mind.
Those are some magic, I'll tell you what.
Rule 7: Don’t make weird food.
McDonald's solution to kids disliking vegetables is going full Willy Wonka and making gummy vegetables huh
Is there like, any source for this at all? Im too lazy to Google and find out tbh
I'd eat that
Was this part of the range that featured blue ketchup cuz the taste of that confused me
Bubblegum flavoured broccoli....?
Instead of just adding brocolli or other veggies to their processed shit that kids can't seem to get enough of. Smh, how dumb.
If McDonald’s wanted kids to eat healthier they’d shut down
When I was about four, I spent a day with my nan and then afterwards told my mum we'd gone to McDonald's. Believable, until I insisted that my nan had eaten broccoli. Which obviously you can't get in McDonald's. Interesting that they considered it once!
Do you why kids in USA hate Broccoli? Their mom don't know how to cook.
Color me a bit skeptical. You'd think somebody would have leaked a few seeds and we'd know about it today. More likely they tried spraying bubblegum flavoring onto a cultivar of red broccoli.
And this mindset is why there is an obesity epidemic in the U.S. Way too many chemicals added to our food supply
How come stuff is "bubblegum flavoured" but if you buy bubblegum it's strawberry or cola or whatever. Wtf is bubblegum flavour.
In the mid to late 90s, Iceland (a UK budget supermarket) made chocolate flavoured carrots, pizza flavoured corn and cheese & onion flavoured cauliflower (which *could* be OK?). My then girlfriend had a four year old kid and she bought the chocolate carrots for him. I tried one. They were vile. (no surprise there!) Mentioned in a reddit post here... https://www.reddit.com/r/CasualUK/comments/bmiy9k/anyone_else_remember_icelands_wacky_veg_chocolate/
Bubblegum doesn't taste good
Instead we'll give them a burger that never spoils
Remember the bubble gum antibiotics? I imagine that flavor but broccoli.
WHAT. I WANT
But they can’t fix the shake machines? 🤷🏼♀️
And I'm sure what ever it was that made it "bubble-gum" flavored probably wasn't so healthy anyway.
The solution to getting kids to eat veggies is to not be shit at cooking veggies.
My eight-year-old literally said just an hour ago, “maybe when I’m older, they’ll have a McDonald’s that will taste the same as junk food but it will be healthy. I would eat at McDonald’s every day” and then I saw this. Please bring me the broccoli gum, McDonalds, I beg you.
this some nile red type stuff
Bullshit that they could ever make that taste good…
Great now I have to wonder what the hell this taste like.
Broccoli is delicious and doesn't need to be altered
WTF, I thought I was on r/thomastheplankengine and it was hilarious but now I'm just confused?? it usually goes the other way around
Omg. Make it taste like a cheeseburger and I will eat it every night. I been waiting on this for years.
Ronald McWonka is a terrifying concept.
" confused by the taste" Aka too smart to swallow what tastes like a huge wad of bubblegum. Might as well have gone with Listerine flavour
Bubble gum isn't a normal thing to eat as food.
That sounds more disgusting than regular broccoli (which isn't really that gross tbh)
That sounds disgusting
Who the fuck is deciding “bubblegum” is a desirable flavour? Never have I ever.