Brocco WHAT?
An Australian mother had people obsessed and curious over the way in which she pronounces the common household vegetable broccoli on social media.
Within the clip, Katelynn Young, 23, asks viewers on TikTok how they select their produce when shopping online when she holds up a bit of broccoli — but pronounces it, “broccol-EYE.”
“I just have an issue — are you, like, not allowed to present us the nice produce, because I never get good things, and today I purchased some broccoli and also you pay for broccoli per head, not per kilo [kilogram]…,” Young starts off within the video.
“I often get a large big head of broccoli once I buy it myself, so I’m just curious do you personally pick this produce, and, it’s similar to not excellent, or I used to be told you’re not allowed to present us good things,” she goes on.
The video ended up going viral, as viewers quickly caught on to her different pronunciation of the vegetable.
“Are you pronouncing broccoli like that as a joke? 🥦 genuinely curious,” one person commented.
“Can’t take you seriously while you say broccoli like that 😂,” to which Young replied, “I’m saying it normally 😅😂.”
“I can’t with the broccoli pronunciation,” a frustrated replier said.
Young, a mother to her 1-year old son, responded back to those mocking her broccoli pronunciation and genuinely asked viewers “how else do you say it 😂.”
One comment even began a complete thread for a way the vegetable needs to be said, as Young was greatly surprised by what number of were calling her out for pronouncing it the way in which she did.
“Why has nobody told me this before 😂 ,” Young jokingly says.
“Did you not grow up around literally anyone who talked about vegetables? Very quirky haha 🤣🤪,” one snappy replier wrote.
“I did but possibly I just never noticed,” Young clapped back.
Some Australian natives got here to Young’s defense for bashing the mother’s accent that forces her to say broccoli just a little different than most.
“Literally everyone (Australian) I do know pronounces it this manner. I only ever hear Broco-LEE as an American pronunciation,” a fellow Australian replied.
“One other day being grateful that I don’t live in Queensland because otherwise I would say ‘broccolie’ ”
“My grandmother says it like that and I adore it a lot” one other cheerful Australian replied.
