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[–] WolfmanEightySix@piefed.social 64 points 1 month ago (2 children)

All look the same as a silhouette.

[–] BanMe@lemmy.world 36 points 1 month ago (2 children)

We know they follow a fractal pattern.

As do dinosaurs, which ate the big trees, and (in chicken nugget form) eat the small broccoli trees too

Nature is beautiful.

[–] stray@pawb.social 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

You are what you eat, so dinosaurs are a type of broccoli too.

[–] ssfckdt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

"I hate broccoli. And yet, in a certain sense, I am broccoli!" -- The Tick

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 month ago
[–] WolfmanEightySix@piefed.social 2 points 1 month ago

Oh, and I was being sarcastic. Thank you.

[–] Geobloke@aussie.zone 15 points 1 month ago

Thanks Plato

[–] ssfckdt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 33 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Discovering just how many vegetables are all brassica was a lot similar to when I found out that all real tea (black/green/white/oolong) is the exact same plant.

[–] FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Wait until you find out about peppers, especially bell. Yellow red and green…

[–] LemmingOnTheEdge@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

I assume you're getting at the extremely vast number of cultivars included in capsicum annuum. There are lots of popular cultivars included in capsicum frutescens and chinense though.

[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What should I know about peppers?

[–] prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

What SHOULDNT you know about them‽‽‽

[–] Krauerking@lemy.lol 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Except for Red/Rooibos tea which is a Fabaceae legume like soybeans, peanuts, and liquorice.

[–] I_am_10_squirrels@beehaw.org 3 points 1 month ago

TIL, thank you!

[–] ConstantPain@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There's mate, which is a different species: Ilex Paraguariensis vs. Camellia Sinensis.

[–] kchr@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 month ago

Absolutely love it, in all forms. Yerba mate to start my morning and Club-Mate to extend the night!

[–] clockworkrat@slrpnk.net 27 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Closely followed by nightshade and umbellifer

nightshade are one heck of a ride

[–] carrylex@lemmy.world 25 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] kurwa@lemmy.world 31 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I'm not sure if anyone's see it before, but romanesco broccoli looks absolutely stunning.

[–] JetpackJackson@feddit.org 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] TargaryenTKE@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] mika_mika@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Fractals all the way down

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

i can't eat some broccoli but i want to eat this just for the math

[–] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's like a less offputting cauliflower, I really recommend it. It's both beautiful, and quite tasty.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

oh yeah. my biggest life goal is to eat one of everything (with my last meal being something that i'm REALLY not supposed to eat, like a truck) to maintain my position on the food chain so like i didn't totally need the encouragement, but i think it moved up a few steps

[–] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

like a truck

Who wouldn't love to tuck into a big bowl of Mac & Cheese on their deathbed?

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

i don't just want to be on top of the food chain, i want to be ON TOP. like if someone could bring me part of a space shuttle or something

[–] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I think we can work with that, I've got a couple shuttle O-rings (not those ones) you could absolutely consume without issue. It's probably not good to eat sharp parts like screws, but chunks of the heat tiles could be put in a pepper mill and used as a topping that way, or as a filler in a dense baked good like a scone. You could also eat any of the shielding foils, the gold foil used to protect against radiation especially would be totally safe and quite decorative.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

i was thinking the heating tiles specifically but those might be a little too fiberglassy for anything besides a last meal.

[–] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I was thinking of the RCC tiles, probably should have considered that the white ones would just be health problems city. But the carbon fibers in the RCC ones are bound pretty completely in graphite, so from all the reading I just did (please help me I desperately need a job all this free time is going to kill me) it should be safe to eat those so long as they're not reduced to, say, a fine dust. Ground down to the consistency of cornmeal though, I can't find anything that indicates it would be a particular risk?

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 month ago

Mmmmm, fractal broccoli....

[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It's tasty, too -- and I fucking hate regular broccoli and cauliflower.

There's an orange variant of this which tastes the same but is even cooler-looking.

[–] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don’t really like broccoli unless roasted. You may have tried already, but if not, broccoli and cauliflower are way different after a good oven roasting with oil, salt, and pepper.

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[–] kurwa@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Somewhat counterintuitively: orange romanesco.

[–] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

"Orange romanesco"

[–] FragrantGarden@lemmy.today 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

But do the cabbage worms fuck with it?

[–] Faydaikin@beehaw.org 5 points 1 month ago

No need for name calling, but to answer your question; yes I do.

[–] stray@pawb.social 1 points 1 month ago

I recently took in one of these that was found on commercial produce, and turns out they will starve themselves to death if they've learned about the most premium crucifers and are denied them.

[–] hector@lemmy.today 9 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Is it though?

I can often tell a Brassica species just by looking at it. Redwood seems entirely dissimilar am I dumb and missing a joke here or what?

[–] stray@pawb.social 14 points 1 month ago

No, the joke is that people would potentially believe anything about brassicas at this point because everything else is a brassica.

[–] woodenghost@hexbear.net 13 points 1 month ago

No, it's just a joke. But lots of veggies are.

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Do brussel sprouts really look the same as cauliflower to you?

[–] stray@pawb.social 5 points 1 month ago

In the leaves, yes. The white part is flowers.

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

based and triangle of u pilled

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 points 1 month ago

if redwoods was in the brassicales order, and not a gymnosperm

[–] StarvingMartist@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

All hail brassica prime

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