Interesting question... My dad grew most of our veg, but I don't think I remember much broccoli, if any (though I think it can be hard to grow too, I remember trying once and it was eaten by caterpillars within minutes of sprouting, it seemed!) so he just might not have been bothered with it... Or maybe he did, but there was never as much as there was spinach, so I'm forgetting!
I do remember broccoli from when I was in the UK, because it's one of the few veg I don't mind boiled (if I have to... *g*) and so I'd be relieved if that's what was served... Mid-eighties though that was, from 1985. I'll try and remember to ask my mum tomorrow when we skype!
"things people think of in moments of fannish experience that are cool for them, so yay" Yeah - although if they spread, as the Fanlore page suggests "the broccoli test" did, does it make them more generally "fannish"? What are the boundaries between the one and the other... For instance, the whole "hatstander" thing, and the enamel frog brooches - are they just things that are cool for them so yeay, because they were relatively limited in the number of people they reached? But then things didn't spread as far and fast pre-internet, they couldn't, so... What would be a measure, I wonder? And - hmmn - what is it we're trying to measure?!
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Date: 2010-04-04 08:44 am (UTC)I do remember broccoli from when I was in the UK, because it's one of the few veg I don't mind boiled (if I have to... *g*) and so I'd be relieved if that's what was served... Mid-eighties though that was, from 1985. I'll try and remember to ask my mum tomorrow when we skype!
"things people think of in moments of fannish experience that are cool for them, so yay"
Yeah - although if they spread, as the Fanlore page suggests "the broccoli test" did, does it make them more generally "fannish"? What are the boundaries between the one and the other... For instance, the whole "hatstander" thing, and the enamel frog brooches - are they just things that are cool for them so yeay, because they were relatively limited in the number of people they reached? But then things didn't spread as far and fast pre-internet, they couldn't, so... What would be a measure, I wonder? And - hmmn - what is it we're trying to measure?!