It's always Brassica

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WolfmanEightySix@piefed.social · 63 pts · 331d (6 replies)

All look the same as a silhouette.

BanMe@lemmy.world · 36 pts · 331d (4 replies)

We know they follow a fractal pattern.

As do dinosaurs, which ate the big trees, and (in chicken nugget form) eat the small broccoli trees too

Nature is beautiful.

stray@pawb.social · 9 pts · 331d (2 replies)

You are what you eat, so dinosaurs are a type of broccoli too.

ssfckdt@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 331d

"I hate broccoli. And yet, in a certain sense, I am broccoli!" -- The Tick

prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 330d

GOOD point

WolfmanEightySix@piefed.social · 2 pts · 331d

Oh, and I was being sarcastic. Thank you.

Geobloke@aussie.zone · 13 pts · 331d

Thanks Plato

ssfckdt@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 32 pts · 331d (7 replies)

Discovering just how many vegetables are all brassica was a lot similar to when I found out that all real tea (black/green/white/oolong) is the exact same plant.

FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 330d (3 replies)

Wait until you find out about peppers, especially bell. Yellow red and green…

LemmingOnTheEdge@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 330d

I assume you're getting at the extremely vast number of cultivars included in capsicum annuum. There are lots of popular cultivars included in capsicum frutescens and chinense though.

threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 330d (1 reply)

What should I know about peppers?

prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 330d

What SHOULDNT you know about them‽‽‽

Krauerking@lemy.lol · 8 pts · 330d

Except for Red/Rooibos tea which is a Fabaceae legume like soybeans, peanuts, and liquorice.

ConstantPain@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 330d (1 reply)

There's mate, which is a different species: Ilex Paraguariensis vs. Camellia Sinensis.

kchr@lemmy.sdf.org · 1 pts · 324d

Absolutely love it, in all forms. Yerba mate to start my morning and Club-Mate to extend the night!

tfed@infosec.exchange · 31 pts · 331d
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clockworkrat@slrpnk.net · 27 pts · 331d (1 reply)

Closely followed by nightshade and umbellifer

gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de · 10 pts · 331d

nightshade are one heck of a ride

carrylex@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 331d (20 replies)
kurwa@lemmy.world · 31 pts · 331d (19 replies)

I'm not sure if anyone's see it before, but romanesco broccoli looks absolutely stunning.

JetpackJackson@feddit.org · 14 pts · 331d (3 replies)

Fractals all the way down

TargaryenTKE@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 330d (2 replies)

Fractals all the way down

ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 330d (1 reply)

Fractals all the way down

mika_mika@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 330d

Fractals all the way down

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 331d (7 replies)

i can't eat some broccoli but i want to eat this just for the math

Warl0k3@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 330d (6 replies)

It's like a less offputting cauliflower, I really recommend it. It's both beautiful, and quite tasty.

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 330d (5 replies)

oh yeah. my biggest life goal is to eat one of everything (with my last meal being something that i'm REALLY not supposed to eat, like a truck) to maintain my position on the food chain so like i didn't totally need the encouragement, but i think it moved up a few steps

Warl0k3@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 330d (4 replies)

like a truck

Who wouldn't love to tuck into a big bowl of Mac & Cheese on their deathbed?

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 330d (3 replies)

i don't just want to be on top of the food chain, i want to be ON TOP. like if someone could bring me part of a space shuttle or something

Warl0k3@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 330d

I think we can work with that, I've got a couple shuttle O-rings (not those ones) you could absolutely consume without issue. It's probably not good to eat sharp parts like screws, but chunks of the heat tiles could be put in a pepper mill and used as a topping that way, or as a filler in a dense baked good like a scone. You could also eat any of the shielding foils, the gold foil used to protect against radiation especially would be totally safe and quite decorative.

prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 330d

Mmmmm, fractal broccoli....

ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 331d (5 replies)

It's tasty, too -- and I fucking hate regular broccoli and cauliflower.

There's an orange variant of this which tastes the same but is even cooler-looking.

anomnom@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 330d (1 reply)

I don’t really like broccoli unless roasted. You may have tried already, but if not, broccoli and cauliflower are way different after a good oven roasting with oil, salt, and pepper.

ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 330d

I don’t really like broccoli unless roasted.

Yeah, same here. I pretty much hate any vegetable that's been steamed into mush -- aka how my parents always cooked them. Roasting is the shit for almost anything, otherwise I'd rather just eat my vegetables raw. I've recently been making a raw broccoli salad with scallions, bacon bits and cole slaw dressing and it's fantastic.

kurwa@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 330d (2 replies)

What's that one called D:

ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 330d

Somewhat counterintuitively: orange romanesco.

Warl0k3@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 330d

"Orange romanesco"

FragrantGarden@lemmy.today · 8 pts · 331d (2 replies)

But do the cabbage worms fuck with it?

Faydaikin@beehaw.org · 5 pts · 331d

No need for name calling, but to answer your question; yes I do.

stray@pawb.social · 1 pts · 331d

I recently took in one of these that was found on commercial produce, and turns out they will starve themselves to death if they've learned about the most premium crucifers and are denied them.

hector@lemmy.today · 7 pts · 331d (3 replies)

Is it though?

I can often tell a Brassica species just by looking at it. Redwood seems entirely dissimilar am I dumb and missing a joke here or what?

stray@pawb.social · 12 pts · 331d

No, the joke is that people would potentially believe anything about brassicas at this point because everything else is a brassica.

ayyy@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 331d (1 reply)

Do brussel sprouts really look the same as cauliflower to you?

stray@pawb.social · 5 pts · 331d

In the leaves, yes. The white part is flowers.

TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 331d

based and triangle of u pilled

Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 331d

if redwoods was in the brassicales order, and not a gymnosperm

StarvingMartist@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 327d

All hail brassica prime

Una@europe.pub · -1 pts · 331d

I mrreow meow