Talk:Cauliflower
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Heh, how bad is it when you have to worry about NPOV about cauliflower? ;) -- John Owens
- One must be ever vigilant against the proselytization of the massive international cauliflower industry's lobby groups. :) Bryan
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- I hear they're in league with the broccoli people. Don't tell anyone I told you. -- John Owens
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[edit] Queried wording
What does "values under the gram" mean? I'm not familiar with US food-labelling pratices - does it mean less than 1.0g per kg, or something more esoteric?
- the references are in g/kg. I found you a link http://nutrition.about.com/library/foodfind/blcauliflower.htm.
Oh, and I assume that this is yet another part of this article's Americanocentralism ;-)
James F. (talk) 03:02, 11 Jan 2004 (UTC)
- Of course :-) Which is why it was added by a french person :-) This said, you can remove the USDA if you prefer :-)
What does "cauliflower provides 94% of Vitamin C for a PDV" refer to? A single cauliflower? 100g of cauliflower? A serving of cauliflower?
[edit] Broccoflower and/or chou Romanesco?
Judging by the broccoflower article, and John Walker's page [1] for Chou Romanesco, they look to be the same thing: are they?
- I don't think so. They do look similar, but broccoflower's clumps of flowers are more rounded, and if you look at the closeup image, you can see that it also has sporadic larger, broccoli-like buds on its surface, which Chou Romanesco seems to lack. That said, I'd appreciate some explanation of the latter's origin. At the moment it seems it was planted in Europe by visiting aliens roughly 20 years ago. -AndromedaRoach 21:22, 23 April 2006 (UTC)
- Talk:Broccoflower contains a comment by Edoderoo stating that these vegetables are, in fact, the same thing. If this is the case then this article should remove the distinction, but Edoderoo does not cite any sources; it is possible he just saw the picture of broccoflower and assumed it was the vegetable he knew. -AndromedaRoach 21:27, 23 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Bhutanese prophets
The sentence makes no sense...why is a ban between 1831 and 1946 relevant to a boy who was poisoned by a pesticide-laden cauliflower in 2002? I'm rewording it - someone else can disagree if they wish. If these prophets did indeed foretell of this boy's death, more information must be given. Kickstart70 02:30, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
Agreed, this sounds unbelievable. Unless anyone has a proper reference for this, I'm removing it. Scott5834 23:34, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Cooking Instructions
This article could be improved by the addition of cooking instructions. davidzuccaro 09:54, 19 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Delete?
User:Rfrancis123 added: Cauliflower is the result of man's artificial selection for sterilty of flowers within the wild mustard flower. What exactly is this supposed to mean? Should it be deleted? He has added similar sentences in Kohlrabi, Cabbage, Kale, and Broccoli. NapoleonB 22:26, 21 April 2006 (UTC)
- Why not add one of those citation needed labels?
- davidzuccaro 14:17, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
- Good idea. Thanks, NapoleonB 15:49, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Growing season a year?
Wouldn't it be more correct to say that the lifecycle of Cauliflower (as an annual) is a growing season? Cuz I doubt if every cauliflower in the world drops dead on its 366th day of life.--Anchoress 07:39, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
- Changed, since no-one commented one way or the other.--Anchoress 21:48, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Recent addition (cooking instructions)
The problem(s) with the new addition are: a) the cooking instructions are for Romanesco, whereas the article is about Cauliflower; and b) it's a copyvio, copied and pasted word for word from the linked website. Anchoress 12:43, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
Not to mention "be careful not to stir it too much during cooking, because it looks better with the "Christmas tree" florets intact" is kinda POV. I'll re-write. WLU 14:41, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
