Who would'a thunk?

For a very long time I had wondered 'where do brussel sprouts come from?' I guess I was just too lazy to ask or find out and I just resigned myself to the belief that they grow like cabbages out of the ground, only little. Well, I was wrong! There they be...the stalks or things/whatever and then like gruesome, green growths, the brussel sprouts develop and are hacked off! Mmm....