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Ok, now I get what the fuss is about. Half my life I have been wandering why people didn’t like broccoli or where that running gag came from. It probably is my favourite vegetable but I never enjoyed food from child catering services or similar places.
Fwiw it's not just child catering. The trend for the parents of baby boomers was very often to just boil the shit out of vegetables, even at home. And many of those boomers would in turn keep doing that as they had kids of their own.
Roasting vegetables only became a (semi) widespread thing in the '90s. It sounds stupid but before the '80s the idea of chucking broccoli in a stove pan or oven just wasn't part of the Western home cooking canon - that was reserved for meat.
I definitely remember that was still the norm for my GenX parents in the 2000s and they only started properly roasting vegetables on occasion in the 2010s. Though at least they'd use generous amounts of sauce so we always enjoyed our vegetables.
Honestly, this explains a lot. I always had access to "healthy" snacks as a kid so there'd always be things like baby carrots and raw broccoli with buttermilk ranch dressing, and I learned to really like it. Fresh broccoli is delicious, and when you lightly cook it and add a splash of cheese...