About two years ago I noticed something funny as I flipped through a grocery store flyer. On the produce page was an ugly, green-looking cauliflower, with the caption “$2.99! Broccoflower!” It was hilarious. A green cauliflower labelled as a Broccoflower. The bizarre misfit child from two of nature’s most hideous vegetables. The best part is that people usually don’t believe me when I mention it and, to top it off, I’ve never seen it advertised since — like the mutant Broccoflower was shunned by society and has since flown home.
AWESOME!
The last awesome thing should state finishing reading this book/blog
AWESOME
one of the best foods ever brocolli
yaY!
yes
wow?!?!?!?!? i dont get it. is it broccoli or cauliflower?!?!?!? AAAHHH!!!! my brain hurts at just the thought!! lmfao!!!! that is totally awesome!!! and i kno awesomeness………or do i? hhmmmmm………
I just want to say pulled pork need to be in here. somewhere
What wrong with just Brocolli smothered in butter, bread crumbs= Delicious.
Broccoli is actually a hybrid of Mustard and cauliflower. So a hybrid of Cauliflower and Broccoli, a hybrid of a hybrid mixed with it’s own predecessor…I don’t know if that can happen….
Your book is so “Awesome.” Ha… My wife just bought it for me for christmas. We have started a blog which was inspired, in a way, by this. Come visit it. It is called “Bystanding 1000 befuddlements.” It is 1000 interesting quirks and oddity’s that we find or have seen throughout our lives. Some are really funny to ponder.
Come visit our blog too.
:DDD broccoflower :D
actually, in Italy, this is called : Broccoletti romani :D roman broccoli
lol!!!
I work at a grocery store, and I had no idea that this was the first of the 1000 awesome things, and I just so happened to get this through my line last night. I had no idea what it was, and I was fumbling for the code. As I found it, it said Broccoflower and I laughed to my self as to why some old lay would want a hybrid vegetable. And it is still $2.99. =]
well, I’ve eaten Broccoflower (or is it Brocciflower?) once and my husband and I just loved it. Then we never saw it again. I wish I knew where I could buy some or get some seeds to grow my own.
I love the veggie but always wished they’d given it the other possible hybrid name combination. We call it: CAULIOLI. Doesn’t that have a much better ring to it? :)
this would be true if bandannas were Real.
weed is goood
hi
i can eat this all the time
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It’s known as a Roman Cauliflower in most other parts of the world!
This is actually a well-known vegetable in Rome, Italy where I live. Its called Broccolo Romanesco, or Roman Broccoli. I have made it and it was great!
Thanks for your personal marvelous posting! I certainly enjoyed reading it, you are a great author.I will make sure to bookmark your blog and will eventually come back very soon. I want to encourage you continue your great posts, have a nice afternoon!
Grapples are the thing at my grocery store – apples that smell like grapes
life is awesome after all
can any one help me in finding the book awesome!!!!!!!!!! could it be available in pakistan????????
ever had an papple? they r delicious. apple/pear
In the late 80’s, music, style and tides and much more was changing fast!
In the Okanagan, Zedonks were “grown”; their eyes looked sad and we thought”what is this world coming to?”
There were Lemurs “crossed” with racoons at a local petting zoo too!
(for a number of reasons, recently closed by animal rights activists)
But when farmers “combined” a Golden delicious, a Macintosh and Spartan, we do hope the apples are proud because they encapsulate a perfect blend of sweet and tart, crisp scrumptious delight in the Sunrise apple:)
Ogopogo Playland was sadly closed, but they can’t take the Ogopogo’s out of the lakes. And when they form a long humpty-back camel looking thing, while out and about the suface, teaching their babies how to swim, on a misty morning, “tis a sweet sight to see!
Though I haven’t seen one for sometime, I remember broccoflower well.
I too thought it was pretty. “A tree- ever rooted, ever reaching…Sowing the seeds of flower-power”, a potentially perfect playground for love on a platter with dips and a healthy, heartdy soup. In our home we all enjoyed it very much…but wherever did it go?!*
…WOW, “What the world needs now,” (Jackie De’Shannon), *3 pages “on broccoflower”…yet really about so much more…
Like a phoenix rising. To think, “broccoflower” was the blessed beginning of an iconic life force created for those who strive to thrive in the light of life. A Cyber-space playground for a positive collective consciousness, created by a master-mind diviner…Neil Pasricha.
“As the tree, ever rooted, ever reaching,” the flower, ever spreading seeds of love and laughter…may Awareness, Attitude, Authenticity and Awesome, live on past 1000, happy-ever-after!
I just had broccoflower for dinner tonight! I must say it was delicious.
Broccoflower with garlic chicken and pasta, yummie. Een sieraad op je tafel as we dutchies say. Awsome.
Thanks for your personal marvelous posting!
Sooq is de plek voor leuke, toffe en bijzondere dingen. Een Sooq of Souk werd vroeger gehouden wanneer meerdere caravane’s mekaar ontmoeten. Het gevolg was dan zowel een feest als het opzetten van stalletjes voor handel.
and thats why i love broccoflower.
Oh, I almost cried when reading this. It must be just plane awesome thinking that how many people all over the world you cheer up every day! So I want to say thank you, too. Thank you so much for making our lives just that much funnier, sweeter and grateful. And thank you SO much for getting me love blogs and for being the first blog ever I have started following.
Ps. For me it started at a (pretty boring) high school lesson with
http://1000awesomethings.com/2008/10/24/91-when-you-arrive-at-your-destination-just-as-a-great-song-ends-on-the-radio/
“YOU’RE SO UNBELIEVABLE!”
In an awesome way:D
Only something much greater could ever have seen what would sprout and be grown from this seed…Broccoflower~Fricken Fantastic!
Thank you for the silver lining’s over the rainbow.
xD just saw that at foodland a few weeks ago, along with orange cauliflower!
It’s so fun now to read back through all of the commentson the 1000th awesome thing post! It’s like going back in time. Who knew what was to develop?! Not knowing what the future has in store…AWESOME!
I’ve seen this before too, never tried it.
A few months back, I saw an orange cauliflower. There were 2 other women looking at them too, and I heard one say, “Hmmm. Must be cheese flavored.” Hahaha
just checking in:)
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When you find out what something you didn´t know the name of – and really wondered about – is called, just by total chance (like reading this post).
Is it a broccoli??? Is it a cauliflower??? No, it´s BROCCOFLOWER!!!
AWESOME! :)
I DEFINITELY ate one of these once, and I thought they were amusingly brilliant! I blogged about it too.
Good too see where the awesome madness began.
Cheers,
nicole.
Greetings! I’ve been reading your blog for a long time now and finally got the courage to go ahead and give you a shout out from Lubbock Texas! Just wanted to tell you keep up the fantastic job!
That’s so funny!
great !!