Kiwis love their spuds (but hate sprouts)

Press Release                                                                                                                                                                                     30 June 2010

Kiwis love their spuds (but hate sprouts)

Potatoes narrowly squeaked into number one spot in a survey by New Zealand Gardener magazine to find New Zealand’s favourite – and least liked – vegetables.

They beat Kiwis second favourite choice, tomatoes, by just 42 votes, to take out the number one spot.

New Zealanders also love broccoli, beans (except broad beans), carrots, pumpkin and peas. Silverbeet and spinach only just made it into the top ten list in the number nine spot – but they have the dubious distinction of being the only vegetable to make it on to both the 10 most loved and the ten most loathed lists.

The tenth most popular vegetable in New Zealand is lettuce, although New Zealand Gardener editor Jo McCarroll says the lettuce vote was split with a lot of Kiwis saying Rocket was their pick of the crops.
 
But when it comes to the vegetables we don’t like, there’s no contest, with Brussels sprouts receiving twice as many votes as their nearest rival, the broad bean, to take out the number one spot on the list of greens we prefer to avoid. Swedes were the third most disliked vege (although they were noticeably more popular in Southland than in the rest of the country), followed by cabbages, turnips, silverbeet and spinach, globe artichokes, parsnips, eggplants and finally zucchini and marrow.

The nationwide survey of New Zealand Gardener readers had more than 2000 respondents from all over New Zealand.

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