black nightshade
Honestly does not sound like something you should eat
this post was submitted on 17 Jul 2025
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I mean I'm no botanist, but aren't all of the crops mapped onto the little girl actually just nightshades with extra steps?
Every plant named in this meme, not just the ones on the girl, is a nightshade.
Let's not be racist now
Well, I may be a cannibal, but I don't discriminate!
Oh shit I’ve been eating these for years along with millions of people. Are we all going to die?
It's the name I'm on about. It's not really mainstream friendly. I'm sure they are lovely.
I’m just poking a bit of fun at the absolute panic people experience when they hear the word nightshade. Despite the fact that people have been eating a variety of nightshade species for thousands of years if not longer.
I’ve always seen tomatillos for sale in supermarkets (western US). Are they not common elsewhere?
I tried growing tomatillo, the damn thing is shooting flowers but nothing coming of it. The tomato plant next to it is already bearing fruit, almost ripe!
Screw that thing, if I don't see any fruiting by the end of the month I'm ripping it out of the ground!
Tomatillos aren't self pollinating, they need a buddy plant. I have two side by side in my garden and both are producing fruit.
I did NOT know that, thank you. I'm going to prep a few more in my hydroponic, hopefully they're not out of season just yet.
Probably need at least two more tomatillo plants, and those might need two more each
But I'm no mathematician
Sorry, eggplant is a better name for them. Aubergine is just a color.
Like orange?
Unless you have another, separate word for the color that you don't have for the fruit, I'm not certain the relevance.
The eggplant looks like an egg when it's growing. It's such a wonderfully descriptive word that came to English first. Aubergine is a French many-times-borrowed word from Arabic. Very pretty word, but not super great identifier for the fruit. Thus it is just the name for the color (in my mind and in North America)
The eggplant looks like an egg when it's growing.
Now I'm picturing the "long egg" meme, but growing on a plant. How cool would it be for eggplants to essentially be a giant, hardboiled egg inside?
The fruit is where we got the word for the color! There was no color word for orange until the fruit started becoming known and traded around the globe. Boggled my fucking mind as a kid when I learned that.
Edit, it is early for me... As I don't know anything about the origin of aubergine... is it the same deal? And I just need to wake up and catch up, lol?