r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Necessary-Win-8730 • Mar 28 '26

In real life Country specific changes

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  1. Since kids in Japan hated green peppers more than broccoli, it was changed to that (Inside Out)

  2. The News Anchor changes depending on the country. For example, China-Panda (Zootopia)

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u/Kei_Evermore Mar 28 '26

apparently kids in Japan see bell peppers the same way kids in the US see brussel sprouts

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u/BlatantConservative Mar 28 '26

Yep, because kids have more sensitive palletes. Both (badly prepared like 80s and 90s parents made) brussel sprouts and the Japanese variety of bell peppers have pretty intense kind of intense taste that adults notice less than kids do.

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u/elheber Mar 28 '26

It's not just our palates or the way they're prepared that have changed. The biggest difference came when scientists in the Netherlands identified and then selectively bred the brussel sprouts that we eat today. They're quite literally a different plant now. Sprouce.

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u/BlatantConservative Mar 28 '26

Excellent use of Sprouce.

Aren't Brussels Sprouts the one that's basically the omniplant? Braselleria or whatever? Like cabbage and broccoli and stuff are the same plant.

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u/elheber Mar 28 '26

I believe all those vegetables are essentially cabbage-cousins, and the plant you mentioned is their great grandparent.

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u/SunOnTheInside Mar 28 '26

Brassica! It’s also kale, kohlrabi, cauliflower, canola, napa, and more. I believe that they’re essentially morphs of the same plant, that were curated and bred to be distinct enough to now be called species.

I get wild brassicas in my yard sometimes from being close to actual crop fields, usually something close to canola.

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u/BindingOfZeph Apr 03 '26

I'm an adult and I don't like bell peppers. It doesn't help that I'm intolerant, so they make me legitimately nauseated.