Broccoli Etiquette

Mystical Roo and I have recently started some covert broccoli snapping activity.  Covert broccoli snapping activity, I hear you ask.  Yes.  And it all started with an old lady.  Mystical Roo was out shopping in our favourite supermarket, yes it's Woolworths (let me hear a whoop whoop!) and he was minus his Little Stalky.  I was elsewhere.  Probably at work.  Anyway, from what Mystical Roo tells me, he was approached by an elderly lady who, noticing that Mystical Roo is a strapping young man, asked for his assistance.  She was buying broccoli but didn't want to pay for the additional weight caused by the stalk.  What was the point in paying for something you wouldn't use.  Mystical Roo reasoned that this was sensible.  So she asked Mystical Roo if he would kindly snap off the unwanted stalk as she was unable to do it herself.  Mystical Roo had figured at this point that if the old lady said it was ok then it must be ok.  He respects his elders you know.  And he's not the type to bow to authority and it's crazy broccoli standards.  So Mystical Roo snapped that broccoli stalk.  He snapped that stalk and he wasn't sorry for doing it.  It's not like it was wrong.  It couldn't be if the old lady said it was ok.  We've now accepted that this is the done thing - I've noticed several stumps laying discarded amongst the pile of broccoli - so this is now what we do.  When the mood takes us, when we feel the need for the broccoli, I'll scout out a decent looking broccoli, give Mystical Roo the nod and then off comes the stalk.  It's a broccoli revolution.