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[MadocComadrin]

I like them because I don't have to rely on cooking alcohol to make solid food. I mean, seriously, what do you get by preparing a meal out of fifty barrels of dwarven rum, anyway? Jellied rum? Rum topped with rum? Rum soup?

Interestingly enough, I tend to get roasts made completely of Quarry Bush leaves.

What do you get when you mix finely minced Quarry Bush leaves, exceptionally minced Quarry Bush leaves, finely minced Quarry Bush leaves and exceptionally minced Quarry Bush leaves? A salad, and those are for elves.

[MenacesWithSpikes]

No milling, bagging, or anything like that required.

[Neckbeard]

Personally, I don't put plump helmets on high priority.

But I still grow and brew them for dwarven wine anyway, because it rounds out my underground alcohol diversity.  Rum, ale, beer, and wine, and then sometimes I import exotic drinks from distant lands.  And trade for sun berries.  Meh...

[Panando]

I'm basically ideologically opposed to underground crops, I like my dwarves to live underground but still be dependent on the surface. So I grow mainly surface crops. There's a lot going for surface crops, in the case of the berries, it's everything which goes for plump helmets, except they take a little longer to mature (but I at least double grow times anyway and it's still too fast). Whip vines and longland grass are good because they can be brewed and milled and you'll get more crops per year than with cave wheat (and whip vines are higher value to boot).

I do usually buy plump helmets from the caravan, just for those dwarves who don't like to feel like they're living in an elvish commune.

[Scott Cee]

It probably says a lot more about me than I want it to, but I imagine plump helmets in appearance to be rather... phallic.

See also: doctrine of signatures.

[Zaik]

I liked quarry bushes for the cooking, but I hate quarry bushes because I find find that dwarves go right past all those expensive meals and eat ALL THE ROCK NUTS GUAGHRAGHRRGHR.

[orius]

Plump helmets are the only edible and brewable underground crop that grows in the winter.  So when winter comes, it's either the plumps or dimple cups.  I don't grow them in the other seasons though, growing them in the winter alone after the first year or so when everything is stable gives me more than enough dwarven wine.

[GenJeFT]

I stopped farming shortly after I got enough FB meat to survive for a century.

Whats more Dwarfy then eating the giant monster you just killed the other day anyway. 

[misko27]

I stopped farming shortly after I got enough FB meat to survive for a century.

Whats more Dwarfy then eating the giant monster you just killed the other day anyway. 

Making it into a roast, of course! some Brain, a lung, and beer, as well as generic meat, for taste

[Lightningfalcon]

I like it because a few 5x5 farms completely take away any need for worrying about food and booze.  Plus,  if I need any other food, there is always the caravans. 

[darkflagrance]

My dwarves eat Quarry Bush Roasts with Dwarven Syrup toppings when the fort is well-established. Plump Helmets are for plebs.