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Brussel sprouts are a bad example. They are the bastard product of hundred of years of human fuckery to turn the same plant into kale, sprouts, broccoli and mor
by delfinom 3y ago
Brussel sprouts are a bad example. They are the bastard product of hundred of years of human fuckery to turn the same plant into kale, sprouts, broccoli and more.
- tptacek 3y agoSign me up for team fuckery, then, because those are all my favorite vegetables.
- ambichook 3y agoholy crap TIL Brassica oleracea is a single species that covers like 8 different groups of vegetables, all of them with massive variety between them https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brassica_oleracea https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brassica_oleracea
- dekhn 3y agoIt's almost like brassica has a little knob that has been turned differently in various european cultures. The variety looks huge but often if you pay close attention, they're really just scaled/rotated variants on each other. Romanesco is the one that looks like an actual fractal.