>Now they call it "calabrese"
Nah - it's a different vegetable

Ah-hah! It all makes sense. I'd heard fairly recently that broccoli is not the green stuff but the "purple sprouting" stuff, which indeed has a different taste and texture, and is also a rolling-into-Winter veg.

I've just sussed that my kids love calabrese, but don't like broccoli. There's useful education.