What is the point of a sprout?

I wrote this just now, after preparing a mountain of the things! Enjoy your Christmas dinner, one and all!

SPROUTS

What is the point of a sprout?

While they’re cooking, they stink the house out!

But we buy the green horrors every December

And cut little crosses (that’s if we remember),

Then boil them or cream them,

Cremate them or steam them,

Add herbs or a paste

To disguise their vile taste.

We make sure we’ve got plenty

And hope they’re ‘al dente’.

In a dish they are plopped

With some holly on top.

They’re now so good-looking

That we’re proud of our cooking.

Then we hear the shouts:

“No thanks. We hate sprouts!”

So – what is the point of a sprout?

I think that the jury’s still out.