high protein chocolate muffin:
From fanlore:
The term came out of a humorous real-life situation. Sandy Herrold and her friend Charlotte were in a grocery store together, at opposite ends of the produce section. Both were heavily into The Professionals at the time. Sandy tried to communicate to that she should pick up some broccoli without shouting across the store at her. No amount of pantomiming and mouthing of the words could get the point across to Charlotte, so Sandy told her later, "Doyle would have known Bodie wanted him to pick up some broccoli with just a raise of his eyebrow!"
Thus, Bodie and Doyle would have passed the broccoli test. It is frequently shorthanded even more to "have broccoli" -- a pairing is said to have broccoli if it can be proven in canon that they understand one another well enough to pass the test.
Heh. Love the broccoli test. Now I'm trying to figure out who among my people could pass the broccoli test with me. Not for sex, just for silent communication connection. Well. Mostly.
My sister and I could probably do it. Colin--it would never work, because he'd never believe I wanted broccoli. But if the topic was vodka, he'd have my back.
It's like the produce version of mamihlapinatapei! Almost.
But if the topic was vodka, he'd have my back.
yeah, that's my issue. Anyone that I'm close to wouldn't be thinking broccoli, they'd be thinking bourbon.
that's
the Broccoli test? All this time I thought it had something to do with James Bond.
they rode in a submarine and stole a Canadian pirate ship with Leslie Nielsen.
wait, what? Did I stop watching Due South before the end?
If it were me, it would of course be cake, but Stephen totally has my back there.
yeah, that's my issue. Anyone that I'm close to wouldn't be thinking broccoli, they'd be thinking bourbon.
Yeah. Absinthe, cupcakes, or berries. Broccoli, never.
I forget what you shopped for at the grocery store in that news story.
