In article >, baldycotton2
@mchsi.comedy says...
> Far as I can tell, someone wrote:
> >Did she do something wrong, is that the way the
> >stuff is supposed to taste?
>
> No one likes broccoli rabe. It tastes like lawn clippings.
> It can't be improved, only masked.
>
> A few years ago it was "in" so people ate it, or at least ordered it in
> restaurants, then hid it under a napkin.
>
> Anyone who says they like it is lying.
>

Some of us like the bitterness, particularly when the rabe is cooked
with garlic. Yum!