If you want them to remain white, you have to cover them in earth, the father’s make ridges of earth to cover them:
Aspergers officinalis
Submitted 7 months ago by ObviouslyNotBanana@piefed.world to [deleted]
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Akasazh@feddit.nl 7 months ago
meliaesc@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Why would you want them to remain white?
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 7 months ago
because racism
Akasazh@feddit.nl 7 months ago
Because they are delicious that way!
Freshly cooked with egg, ham and butter sauce they are very good. It’s called 'white gold’in the Netherlands.
muts@feddit.nl 7 months ago
White gold
M137@lemmy.world 7 months ago
The only way I’ve seen white asparagus is in glass jars with brine and those are disgusting.
A_Chilean_Cyborg@feddit.cl 7 months ago
Asperger = asparagus brings me happy memories of fooling around with this therms, I’m asparagus.
javiwhite@feddit.uk 7 months ago
Somewhat related story; my middle name is Peter, and I had seemingly misheard it, as for the first 6 years of my life I thought my middle name was pizza.
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Don’t google what Hans Asparagus did to disabled kids!
ObviouslyNotBanana@piefed.world 7 months ago
And don't look up his friend, Pauli Broccoli. I've heard he's even worse.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 7 months ago
if you seen agave and aloe blooming, its because they are in the same orders, thts why thier blooms looks giant asparagus shoots.
I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world 7 months ago
untorquer@lemmy.world 7 months ago
So someone bought asparagus from the market, stuck it in the ground, took a picture, and it’s indistinguishable from the real thing?
Otherwise it’s surely not a shitpost
Zachariah@lemmy.world 7 months ago
never really thought about it
I’m a breastparagus man myself
JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
Dad that’s gross, geez!
bigfondue@lemmy.world 7 months ago
M137@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Liz@midwest.social 7 months ago
Well but they aren’t roots, they’re from a stem that goes back under.
FluidBeef@quokk.au 7 months ago
You can buy them like that in a grocer though. Shit for fridge space.
bigfondue@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Yea I’ve only seen them once though. Usually they are sold pretrimmed in a bag, in the US at least.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
moitoi@piefed.social 7 months ago
frog@feddit.uk 7 months 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.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 7 months ago
they are buds of the flowering part. we eat the flowering parts mostly, like broccoli, cauliflower.
Eq0@literature.cafe 7 months 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
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 7 months ago
On another branch of that family tree, those leaves are kale.
MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 7 months ago
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 7 months ago
and they are primitive versions of grasses, POALES.
Canconda@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
Fuck. Im in a hot area but not zone 10-12 hot.
ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 7 months ago
I’ll see your Brussels Sprouts, and raise you Cashews:
incogtino@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 7 months 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?
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 7 months ago
And here I always thought they grew like tiny cabbages
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 7 months 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.
justastranger@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Wait until you hear how closely related they are to cabbages
ignotum@lemmy.world 7 months 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 7 months ago
I even traveled all the way to brussels to get them just for this prank.
haerrii@feddit.org 7 months ago
Wtf no way this is real
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 7 months ago
and these are all related to cabbages, cauliflowers, broccoli too, they come from the same species.
bigfondue@lemmy.world 7 months 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
SatyrSack@lemmy.sdf.org 7 months ago
Would you expect them to grow on a vine like beans or something?
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Bunched together or with leaves around them was my assumption, not individually like someone just bought some and stuck them in the ground.
Didn’t know we harvested them as baby plants.
TowardsTheFuture@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
Oh no that’s not even them as babies. That’s like two years in.
This is baby asparagus. It takes forever to develop to actual asperagus stage.
themeatbridge@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Wait… How do we know that someone didn’t just buy some and stuck them in the ground to make us think that this is how they grow?
Vespair@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
I’ve never understood this meme. Like what did you expect them to look like, and why is this apparently alarming?
Donkter@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I expected them to hang off a central stalk. Or perhaps grow like corn, where there’s a more plant-looking plant growing with the asparagus inside it.