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allium gang rise up 🌰

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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨fossilesque@mander.xyz⁩ to ⁨science_memes@mander.xyz⁩

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  • robocall@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I had an Indian guy tell me Indians have been eating chilies for thousands of years and that’s why they can tolerate spicy food more than Americans. I told him chilies come from the Americas, aren’t native to India, and only arrived after the Columbian exchange. The guy nearly wanted to fight me over it, insisting that chilies are native to India.

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    • TheBat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      He’s an idiot. We were using peppers before we got our hands on chillies.

      Tell him Peru and Thailand have more varieties of chillies to burst his nerve.

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      • chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        If by peppers you mean black pepper, sure. But sweet bell peppers are the same species as jalapeños: Capsicum annuum.

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  • ChicoSuave@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    All cuisine from all countries restarted 500 years ago. Korea didn’t have chili peppers, Russia didn’t have tea or potatoes, no one had coffee, it’s amazing how much of our cultural identity is firmed up after a few generations.

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  • protist@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Don’t forget our favorite New World plant:

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    • flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Fuck yeah! Where was this a year ago?

      Cold bean shots rule

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    • jupyter_rain@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Thanks, I hate it.

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  • TheBat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Web don’t know where onions originated because their use predates written language.

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    • flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Holy crap

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    • lagoon8622@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I don’t know how I’d exist without allium and chili. I would simply pop out of existence like a flavorless virtual particle

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  • Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Man, i fucking love alliums. ❤️ garlic ❤️ onions ❤️

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  • Sunsofold@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Pity the poor souls who don’t like onions. No place is safe for them. The foods of all lands are just too delicious for them to handle.

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  • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Americas have grains they just largely weren’t domesticated.

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    • valtia@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Some were, but generations of cultural genocide, land theft, and economic pressures meant that many domesticated crops and practices were lost. For example, it was illegal in many places for indigenous americans to eat any “indian” food or to grow, hunt, or collect any of their traditional foods. They were forced to work for low pay and spend money to buy western foods, or they were forced to stay on reservations and rely on federal food programs

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  • atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    One correction and fun fact: We absolutely had bamboo.

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    • quediuspayu@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      The bamboo you can see in Spain is the American one and now that I think about it, to call it bamboo it’s a relatively recent thing, thirty years ago it was most commonly known as american cane.

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      • atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        It’s almost exclusively called River Cane here. Probably why nobody thinks it’s bamboo.

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    • angrystego@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I’d argue we also didn’t suffer without cranberries - we always had the similarly delicious Vaccinium vitis-idaea.

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      • boonhet@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I actually prefer it to cranberries

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  • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Who doesn’t like parfait onions? You ever hear someone say “hey you want some parfait onions” and the other person respnds “hell no, I don’t want no parfait onions?”

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  • multifariace@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I also think about this. However this person was misinformed on grapes. Some grapes are native to North America.

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  • b000rg@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    As an Oklahoman, it is a shock for me to learn that okra is from the Old World

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    • MutilationWave@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      The old old world. East Africa. God I love okra.

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  • Aganim@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    If only onions and the like didn’t give me such gutwrenching cramps, love the taste, but partaking in anything containing onions, leek or too much garlic just isn’t worth the aftermath. ☹️

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  • Don_alForno@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    None for the Austrians though.

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    • TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Austria is in Europe

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      • Don_alForno@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        #wooooosh

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      • robocall@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Europe decided. No onions for Austria.

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  • BennyInc@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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  • apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Allium is legion.

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  • Fmstrat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Really loving these 0.2 font size images without accompanying OCR.

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  • umbraroze@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I just went grocery shopping and oh wow looks like onions are nice and cheap and domestic.

    Early this week I was cutting onions (figuratively), I feel better now that I’m cutting onions (literally). Made some tacos. Things are good.

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