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Ban all vegetables!

 Yes, even broccoli
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Anything, once banned, acquires a guilty cache.

Thus, illegal vegetables would suddenly become irresistible to many, probably in inverse proportion to their current consumption.
—OnionBread, May 16 2003

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       Nice idea, but reverse psychology has been around for donkey's years. It's not new.   

       Also, this wouldn't work on children. I've tried it.
—egbert, May 16 2003
   

       Hey, man - I scored us some okra, dude.
—thumbwax, May 16 2003
   

       This is just a ploy to make your oniony self irrestible, isn't it? Fair enough.   

       I like the idea of being approached by street greengrocers on Clapham High Street - "You want carrots? Leeks? Brussels sprouts?"   

       sp: cachet.
—friendlyfire, May 16 2003
   

       what [eggy] said.
—po, May 16 2003
   

       //[friendlyfire] sp: cachet. //
Damn! Now I'll never be admitted to the Freepedants.
—OnionBread, May 16 2003
   

       <<El Pedanto is too busy stir-frying squash to annotate this idea>>
—El Pedanto, May 16 2003
   

       I thought this was a suggestion to ban all insane inert people from using the HB.

<Silverstormer goes back to to the corner, rocks back-and-forward and drools all over the floor>
—silverstormer, May 16 2003
   
      
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