I think the title says it all,
Sprouts taste & smell like rotten cabbage.
Popey is better looking than your weird Sprout Man!
It is also useful
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2004/spinach-0915.html
A cookbook dating from 1390, belonging to King Richard II, contains spinach recipes.
You don't even have to cook it, but can eat it raw as a salad!!