Brocco WHAT?
An Australian mother had people obsessed and curious over the way she pronounces the common household vegetable broccoli on social media.
In the clip, Katelynn Young, 23, asks viewers on TikTok how they select their produce when shopping online when she holds up a piece of broccoli — but pronounces it, “broccol-EYE.”
“I just have a question — are you, like, not allowed to give us the good produce, because I never get good stuff, and today I bought some broccoli and you pay for broccoli per head, not per kilo [kilogram]…,” Young starts off in the video.
“I usually get a massive big head of broccoli when I buy it myself, so I’m just curious do you personally pick this produce, and, it’s just like not very good, or I was told you’re not allowed to give us good stuff,” she goes on.
The video ended up going viral, as viewers quickly caught on to her different pronunciation of the vegetable.
“Are you pronouncing broccoli like that as a joke? ???? genuinely curious,” one person commented.
“Can’t take you seriously when you say broccoli like that ????,” to which Young replied, “I’m saying it normally ????????.”
“I can’t with the broccoli pronunciation,” a frustrated replier said.
Young, a mother to her 1-year old son, responded back to those mocking her broccoli pronunciation and genuinely asked viewers “how else do you say it ????.”
One comment even started a whole thread for how the vegetable should be said, as Young was taken aback by how many were calling her out for pronouncing it the way she did.
“Why has no one told me this before ???? ,” Young jokingly says.
“Did you not grow up around literally anyone who talked about vegetables? Very quirky haha ????????,” one snappy replier wrote.
“I did but maybe I just never noticed,” Young clapped back.
Some Australian natives came to Young’s defense for bashing the mother’s accent that forces her to say broccoli a little different than most.
“Literally everyone (Australian) I know pronounces it this way. I only ever hear Broco-LEE as an American pronunciation,” a fellow Australian replied.
“Another day being grateful that I don’t live in Queensland because otherwise I might say ‘broccolie’ ”
“My grandmother says it like that and I love it so much” another cheerful Australian replied.