It's always Brassica
from fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz on 14 Sep 17:45
https://mander.xyz/post/37972395

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tfed@infosec.exchange on 14 Sep 17:51 next collapse

@fossilesque Phew. i checked it's not... :blobamused:

TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world on 14 Sep 18:07 next collapse

based and triangle of u pilled

clockworkrat@slrpnk.net on 14 Sep 18:53 next collapse

Closely followed by nightshade and umbellifer

gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de on 14 Sep 19:54 collapse

nightshade are one heck of a ride

WolfmanEightySix@piefed.social on 14 Sep 18:56 next collapse

All look the same as a silhouette.

BanMe@lemmy.world on 14 Sep 19:08 next collapse

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.

WolfmanEightySix@piefed.social on 14 Sep 20:06 next collapse

Oh, and I was being sarcastic. Thank you.

stray@pawb.social on 15 Sep 05:41 collapse

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

ssfckdt@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 15 Sep 06:54 next collapse

“I hate broccoli. And yet, in a certain sense, I am broccoli!” – The Tick

prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 15 Sep 14:03 collapse

GOOD point

Geobloke@aussie.zone on 14 Sep 20:10 collapse

Thanks Plato

Una@europe.pub on 14 Sep 19:03 next collapse

I mrreow meow

FragrantGarden@lemmy.today on 14 Sep 19:25 next collapse

But do the cabbage worms fuck with it?

Faydaikin@beehaw.org on 14 Sep 21:02 next collapse

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

stray@pawb.social on 15 Sep 05:51 collapse

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.

carrylex@lemmy.world on 14 Sep 20:49 next collapse

Context (Wikipedia)

kurwa@lemmy.world on 14 Sep 21:19 collapse

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

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world on 14 Sep 22:28 next collapse

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

Warl0k3@lemmy.world on 15 Sep 16:51 collapse

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

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world on 15 Sep 16:59 collapse

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 on 15 Sep 17:02 collapse

like a truck

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

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world on 15 Sep 17:10 collapse

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 on 15 Sep 17:17 collapse

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 on 15 Sep 17:33 collapse

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

Warl0k3@lemmy.world on 15 Sep 18:59 collapse

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?

JetpackJackson@feddit.org on 15 Sep 00:20 next collapse

Fractals all the way down

TargaryenTKE@lemmy.world on 15 Sep 15:47 collapse

Fractals all the way down

ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world on 15 Sep 15:54 collapse

Fractals all the way down

ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world on 15 Sep 09:41 next collapse

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.

kurwa@lemmy.world on 15 Sep 13:56 next collapse

What’s that one called D:

ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world on 15 Sep 15:54 next collapse

Somewhat counterintuitively: orange romanesco.

Warl0k3@lemmy.world on 15 Sep 16:49 collapse

“Orange romanesco”

anomnom@sh.itjust.works on 15 Sep 15:13 collapse

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.

ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world on 15 Sep 15:52 collapse

I don’t really like broccoli unless roasted.

Yeah, same here. I pretty much hate any vegetable that’s been steamed into mush – aka how my parents always cooked them. Roasting is the shit for almost anything, otherwise I’d rather just eat my vegetables raw. I’ve recently been making a raw broccoli salad with scallions, bacon bits and cole slaw dressing and it’s fantastic.

prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 15 Sep 14:04 collapse

Mmmmm, fractal broccoli…

hector@lemmy.today on 14 Sep 21:22 next collapse

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?

woodenghost@hexbear.net on 14 Sep 21:32 next collapse

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

ayyy@sh.itjust.works on 15 Sep 05:37 next collapse

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

stray@pawb.social on 15 Sep 05:44 collapse

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

stray@pawb.social on 15 Sep 05:45 collapse

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

Tollana1234567@lemmy.today on 15 Sep 06:25 next collapse

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

ssfckdt@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 15 Sep 06:58 collapse

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.

Krauerking@lemy.lol on 15 Sep 12:56 next collapse

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

I_am_10_squirrels@beehaw.org on 15 Sep 20:23 collapse

TIL, thank you!

FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world on 15 Sep 14:46 next collapse

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

threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works on 15 Sep 17:15 next collapse

What should I know about peppers?

prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works on 15 Sep 19:05 collapse

What SHOULDNT you know about them‽‽‽

LemmingOnTheEdge@lemmy.world on 15 Sep 17:29 collapse

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.

ConstantPain@lemmy.world on 15 Sep 16:13 collapse

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