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What about Rijssel sprouts? from Rijsel (Lille)?

Should I link the stuff I have happened upon anent the aforesaid Rijsel/Rijssel sprouts?

Think the main difference is that Rijsel sprouts unlike Brussel sprouts are moreso yellow and black hued rather than green and lighter green. Also Rijsellers have a sharperlike (or is it duller?) smatch and crunchiness to them. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A00:23C7:9C97:5D01:991E:F6A5:D997:DF11 (talk) 16:53, 7 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

It is more often known and said as “Brussel sprouts” not “Brussels sprouts”

Why on earth would the aforesaid information be seemingly censored? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A00:23C7:9C97:5D01:F5DA:ADA6:7D3B:FDAE (talk) 22:53, 24 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Quite. I've never heard anyone say "Brussels sprouts" nor seen them write it; except on Wikipedia, but Wikipedia does seem to have a developed an annoying habit of trying to enforce standards that nobody uses. For the record I'm in the UK, which I mention as someone in the archived talk suggested Brussels-with-an-S sprouts is the local usage here, which it's not, at least not IME. --Vometia (talk) 14:46, 23 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
The article is written in American English, and I suspect 'Brussels sprouts' is the more common term there. I agree 'Brussel' is standard in the UK. UK/US spats over common vegetable names occur frequently on WP. --Ef80 (talk) 19:22, 25 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Robert Rankin

Since many of your articles are cluttered up with seemingly useless Popular Culture sections in which the most trivial of references, especially being casually mentioned in passing on "The Simpsons", are listed as if they were tremendously important, would it not be in keeping with your policies regarding what is and is not useful information that belongs in a real encyclopedia to point out that the best-selling humorous author Robert Rankin has written numerous books which feature as a major character a sentient Brussels sprout called Barry? Not to mention quite a few which actually have "sprout" in their titles. Just saying. 86.130.233.165 (talk) 09:33, 20 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]