Oh Wow, We’re Having Broccoli Tonight

This is a red letter day!

Summer Anne Burton
Published in
5 min readSep 4, 2019

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Photo by Annie Spratt on Unsplash

British playwright Dan Rebellato recently took to Twitter with an innocent question about broccoli. So far, he’s received hundreds of replies. See if this tweet inspires any feelings for you, Dear Reader.

If you’re anything like me, you might have quickly experienced three stages of reaction to this tweet:

  1. Wait, there are people who DON’T like broccoli????????????????????????
  2. This man is a troll and I’m mad about it! Broccoli is delicious and I will have none of these implications about it. We’re not talking about, like, liver here, buddy — HAVEN’T YOU EVER HAD A TRULY DELICIOUS BROCCOLI DISH???
  3. Wait… has he really never had a truly delicious broccoli dish? What else has this guy missed out on in life?!? Salted watermelon? Buttered biscuits? The dulcet tones of pedal steel guitar?? Switching between a hot tub and a cold pool on a cool day??? Love itself????????

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Summer Anne Burton
Summer Anne Burton

Written by Summer Anne Burton

Editor-in-Chief and Founder of Tenderly. Former BuzzFeed exec. Moomin. Texan. Vegan for the animals. 💕

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