Bitter herbs… On Kale, the bitter vegetable

On By rushbabe49In business, Culture, Economics, Food and drink, Media and the Internet, Nature, Random Musings About Life, social media

Kale, a dark green, leafy, “cruciferous” vegetable is a fad food. No one, absolutely NO ONE, ever considered it edible until less than a decade ago. People don’t usually eat things that taste bad, especially those that taste bitter. Below is what one of my favorite food gurus has to say about Kale.

Kale wears a crown handed to it by a marketing department, and the crown does not survive a soil test.

What kale actually is:

A brassica, which makes it a goitrogen. In the heroic quantities the wellness crowd inhale it, raw and juiced and twice a day, it gums up your thyroid’s ability to grab iodine and slowly leaves you cold, tired and sluggish in precisely the way you started drinking the green sludge to avoid. Magnificent work.

A hyperaccumulator. Kale is freakishly good at sucking heavy metals out of the dirt and filing them in its leaves. If the soil carried thallium, cadmium or lead, congratulations, so does your smoothie, and the little organic sticker does nothing, because the plant does not pause to read the certificate before it drinks.

A hardy cabbage nobody wanted until it turned out to be photogenic and capable of surviving a blender, at which point the science was hastily assembled to justify charging six pounds for a bag of it.

So spare me the halo. Kale got famous for its bone structure and its tolerance of being pulverised, not for nourishing anyone. Have it on the side if you enjoy the taste. Sink a litre of the raw stuff a day because an influencer in activewear called it medicine, and you are running an unpaid thyroid experiment on yourself for the aesthetic.

A lamb chop never needed a campaign. It fed people for ten thousand years and said nothing about it.

Here are a couple of the choicest comments on the post above.

Cooking tip: if you put olive oil on your kale, it slides off your plate and into the trash easier.

If it tastes bitter you are not supposed to eat it. Natures warning….

Kale is cattle food with the leftovers for the pigs.Its not for people unless in a famine or war situation. Marketing men and women will sell anything to anyone,that’s there skill;but keep kale in the farmyard where it belongs.

How to destroy a good burger in one easy lesson. Add kale to it.

So, those of you who don’t like kale are perfectly justified in not eating it. Ugh!

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