broccoli

That would be aitch dubya. In 1990, dubya was probably too wasted to give a statement that coherent. Although, I guess he never reached that level even when he sobered up.

Dubya? Or aitch dubya? Great quote though.

"I do not like broccoli and I haven’t liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I’m President of the United States and I’m not going to eat any more broccoli. Now look, this is the last statement I’m going to have on broccoli. There are truckloads of broccoli at this very minute descending on Washington. My family is divided. For the broccoli vote out there: Barbara loves broccoli. She has tried to make me eat it. She eats it all the time herself. So she can go out and meet the caravan of broccoli that’s coming in."
-March 1990 News Conference, George W. Bush

Related etymologically to 'broach' (q.v. for more detail), 'brooch', and 'broker'.

Just teasing, bilby. I do like finocchio, though. And uva. Plural or singular. :-)

I'm thinking of uva (grapes), that is a singulare tantum. W H Y ‽

I think Pro is alluding to finocchio.

There may be other vegetable brethren in the infirmary.

"It's not the only Italian vegetable with identity problems."

Haha!

*wondering about cauliflower*

A broccolo is a single broccoli head... but what the hell, I agree with you!
...and it's not the only Italian vegetable with identity problems.

But wait. I understand what a zucchina is. But what's a broccola? The veggie seems singularly fractal to me, tough to make singular.

Broccoli always reminds me of the absurdly funny sketch on Saturday Night Live about an over-the-hill rocker singing "chopping broccoli" over and over again.

lol five, what a ripe comment! You need either elocution lessons or cookery classes, or both ;-)

Of course you can! And the same is for zucchina (s) and zucchine (pl), lasagna and lasagne... Berluscone and Berlusconi... no, not this one.

("Nobody is listing Berlusconi. Why don't you?"...
...I have my good reasons, thank you Wordie.)

Correct me if I'm wrong, but can't you say broccoli and broccolo, just as you can say spaghetti and spaghetto?

What an unpleasant image.

The word oozes out of my mouth in a process much similar to the regurgitation that occurs when I attempt to eat the vegetable.