There are two reasons I seldom eat Brussels sprouts. I do like them, but 1) They are expensive for a cabbage vegi, and 2) The hubster can't handle the smell of them being cooked. That comes from a time when his father burnt an entire field of the stubble of Brussels sprouts that had been recently harvested. He said it was an incredibly obnoxious odour and it comes back to him every time he smells sprouts now.