Comment on Aspergers officinalis

bigfondue@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• ouRKaoS@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I’ll see your Brussels Sprouts, and raise you Cashews:

  Cashew fruit

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  • CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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?

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    • NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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.

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    • fading_person@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Cashew juice is very tasty and it’s quite popular here in brazil. It also has medicinal properties for when you have diarrhea.

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    • Jankatarch@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Maybe they are not as fit for exporting or selling so the more profitable parts get sent to US instead?

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    • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      They’re not great. But you can make decent jam from them.

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  • incogtino@lemmy.zip ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Did you know that cashews come from a fruit?

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• ignotum@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I can’t believe you just spent an hour hotgluing brussel sprouts to a small tree just to trick people on the internet

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  • unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I even traveled all the way to brussels to get them just for this prank.

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    • ignotum@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Brussels can only be called brussels if they’re from the brussels region of france, otherwise it’s just sparkling wine

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• M137@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Peanuts:

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  Yes, they grow underground like potatoes.

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  • Liz@midwest.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Well but they aren’t roots, they’re from a stem that goes back under.

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• MacNCheezus@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I see your brussels sprouts and raise you pineapples:

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  • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    and they are primitive versions of grasses, POALES.

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  • Canconda@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Fuck. Im in a hot area but not zone 10-12 hot.

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    • BillibusMaximus@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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.

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    • MacNCheezus@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Maybe a greenhouse would work?

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  • idunnololz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Damn. You beat me to it.

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    • MacNCheezus@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Uh… you’re welcome?

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• haerrii@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Wtf no way this is real

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  • bigfondue@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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

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  • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    and these are all related to cabbages, cauliflowers, broccoli too, they come from the same species.

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• moitoi@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  And the violet one tastes great:

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• CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  And here I always thought they grew like tiny cabbages

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  • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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.

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  • justastranger@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Wait until you hear how closely related they are to cabbages

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    • some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Everything’s brassica!

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• prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

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  Brussels sprouts are unreal

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• FluidBeef@quokk.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  You can buy them like that in a grocer though. Shit for fridge space.

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  • bigfondue@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yea I’ve only seen them once though. Usually they are sold pretrimmed in a bag, in the US at least.

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• frog@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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.

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  • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    On another branch of that family tree, those leaves are kale.

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    • some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Not even another branch - it’s the same exact species, just a different cultivar

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      • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        selected for increased leaf growth over the flowers.

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  • Eq0@literature.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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

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  • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    they are buds of the flowering part. we eat the flowering parts mostly, like broccoli, cauliflower.

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    • frog@feddit.uk ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I should find out how this stuff grows. I have no idea how broccoli and cauliflower grow.

      Thanks for the info.

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• Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

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  You could have given me a million guesses and I wouldn’t have arrived at that!

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