I’ll see your Brussels Sprouts, and raise you Cashews:
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bigfondue@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I raise you brussels sprouts:
ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
Aren’t the tops edible too? I wonder how the little shriveled bean thing on the end became internationally popular but the juicy looking fruit on top isn’t. Like, every cashew harvested has to have the fruity part too, what do they all get used for?
NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
They’re called cashew apples. You can find them at asian and latin grocery stores sometimes. Never had one, but i hear they are tasty.
fading_person@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Cashew juice is very tasty and it’s quite popular here in brazil. It also has medicinal properties for when you have diarrhea.
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
They’re not great. But you can make decent jam from them.
Jankatarch@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Maybe they are not as fit for exporting or selling so the more profitable parts get sent to US instead?
MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
Canconda@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Fuck. Im in a hot area but not zone 10-12 hot.
BillibusMaximus@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
They may do best there, but I think there is wiggle room, at least for small scale cultivation.
My dad used to grow them in 9a and they grew pretty well. But they need to be covered up or brought in overnight if it’s going to get too cold.
MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
Maybe a greenhouse would work?
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
and they are primitive versions of grasses, POALES.
idunnololz@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Damn. You beat me to it.
MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
Uh… you’re welcome?
haerrii@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
Wtf no way this is real
bigfondue@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Yea I wasn’t sure how I thought they grew, but I never would have guessed that. I saw them at the supermarket on the stem and I was like wtf
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
and these are all related to cabbages, cauliflowers, broccoli too, they come from the same species.
M137@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Liz@midwest.social 2 weeks ago
Well but they aren’t roots, they’re from a stem that goes back under.
moitoi@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
And here I always thought they grew like tiny cabbages
justastranger@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Wait until you hear how closely related they are to cabbages
some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Everything’s brassica!
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
they are cultivars of the same species. cabbages, broccili, cauliflowers, brussel sprouts,etc.
bok choi, napa cabbages are from a related species, similar bred.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
frog@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
I’ve seen markets sell brussels sprouts on the stalk but I didn’t know it had leaves.
I figured the leaves were the brussels sprouts,
Thanks for the info.
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
On another branch of that family tree, those leaves are kale.
some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Not even another branch - it’s the same exact species, just a different cultivar
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
selected for increased leaf growth over the flowers.
Eq0@literature.cafe 3 weeks ago
First time I saw them I felt like someone was playing a massive prank on me… in a random supermarket, by putting clearly alien veggies in the veggie section
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
they are buds of the flowering part. we eat the flowering parts mostly, like broccoli, cauliflower.
frog@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
I should find out how this stuff grows. I have no idea how broccoli and cauliflower grow.
Thanks for the info.
FluidBeef@quokk.au 3 weeks ago
You can buy them like that in a grocer though. Shit for fridge space.
bigfondue@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yea I’ve only seen them once though. Usually they are sold pretrimmed in a bag, in the US at least.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
ignotum@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I can’t believe you just spent an hour hotgluing brussel sprouts to a small tree just to trick people on the internet
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
I even traveled all the way to brussels to get them just for this prank.
ignotum@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Brussels can only be called brussels if they’re from the brussels region of france, otherwise it’s just sparkling wine