Aspergers officinalis

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• bigfondue@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I raise you brussels sprouts:

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  • M137@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Peanuts:

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    Yes, they grow underground like potatoes.

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    • Liz@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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  • 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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    • incogtino@lemmy.zip ⁨16⁩ ⁨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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  • MacNCheezus@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I see your brussels sprouts and raise you pineapples:

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    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      and they are primitive versions of grasses, POALES.

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    • Canconda@lemmy.ca ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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    • idunnololz@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Damn. You beat me to it.

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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 ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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  • moitoi@piefed.social ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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  • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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    Brussels sprouts are unreal

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  • FluidBeef@quokk.au ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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    • bigfondue@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨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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    • Eq0@literature.cafe ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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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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• Vespair@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’ve never understood this meme. Like what did you expect them to look like, and why is this apparently alarming?

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  • Donkter@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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• Akasazh@feddit.nl ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  If you want them to remain white, you have to cover them in earth, the father’s make ridges of earth to cover them:

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  • meliaesc@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Why would you want them to remain white?

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    • Akasazh@feddit.nl ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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    • IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      because racism

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  • muts@feddit.nl ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    White gold

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    • M137@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The only way I’ve seen white asparagus is in glass jars with brine and those are disgusting.

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• SatyrSack@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Would you expect them to grow on a vine like beans or something?

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  • spankmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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.

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    • TowardsTheFuture@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Oh no that’s not even them as babies. That’s like two years in.

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      This is baby asparagus. It takes forever to develop to actual asperagus stage.

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    • themeatbridge@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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?

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• Zachariah@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  never really thought about it

  I’m a breastparagus man myself

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  • JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Dad that’s gross, geez!

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• A_Chilean_Cyborg@feddit.cl ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Asperger = asparagus brings me happy memories of fooling around with this therms, I’m asparagus.

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  • javiwhite@feddit.uk ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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• Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  if you seen agave and aloe blooming, its because they are in the same orders, thts why thier blooms looks giant asparagus shoots.

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  • I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Asperagus blooming:

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• ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Don’t google what Hans Asparagus did to disabled kids!

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  • ObviouslyNotBanana@piefed.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    And don't look up his friend, Pauli Broccoli. I've heard he's even worse.

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• untorquer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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

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