I don't know, it's the strangest damn thing. I mean, my son is six years old, he's vegan, he eats just about everything (mom's malaysian, so he eats spicy everything too) that grows out of the ground. He absolutely loved the color of them. We literally juice either kale, collards, or chard every day. Lost!

I was starting to think that perhaps the purple s.p. are haunted, inherently evil, or perhaps just perceived as some sort of black hole by my son and he's afraid to be sucked into them and separated from his parents forever. It's weird and it sucks because they are quite delicious and I doubt I'll buy them again :(