It is generally provided without question. My wife is not a fan of zucchini, but she is confronted with it on a regular basis at our favorite restaurants. When it is set in a steaming heap before her she crinkles her nose and renews her vow of undying hatred for the vegetable. She seldom has the opportunity to express her dislike for say, liver. No one has been foolish enough to set unasked for liver before her while she is holding a fork and a sharp knife.
Recent studies show that the most favored vegetable is corn and the least is spinach.
It has also been found that the most likely vegetable to stain your shirt red is the beet, and the most likely vegetable to come to life, exhibit human consciousness and be hurled at a passing stranger on a dusty road at dusk near a town called Sleepy Hollow is the asparagus. These results are exactly why I don't trust polling or scientific studies until they pass my personal sanity test. Most fresh vegetables can be simply chopped up and shoved into the microwave for two to five minutes to be ready to be placed directly on the table to complement the main dish of your choice. Even frozen corn, peas or broccoli, blasted in the microwave, can be served with any of the entree's I prescribe in the first few chapters. Add a starch, like a potato or rice, and you have a passable meal.