scientific name
uppercase species
not even underlined or italicized
This is news to me, but I was always kind of onto cauliflower just being albino broccoli, so not too surprised there.
We eat like 2 plants. One is brassica mentioned above.
The other one is nightshade. In the nightshade family we find tomatos, aubergine, tobacco, peppers, physalis, potatoes and of course the extremely toxic bell-donna (deadly nightshade)
Just a small correction: you missed an “a” in bella-donna (bella donna means “beautiful woman” in Italian)
Doesn’t sound like a complete diet
ancient and medieval europeans went through some shit
Wait… it’s all mustard?
🔫🌼 Always has been.
Always has been.
How? Like… literally how?
I grow kale and it looks nothing like the plant in the OP. It looks like a regular bunch of kale.
Or is this like “all 6 vegetables come from one main vegetable”, kind of like how all citrus fruits comes from citron.
Just like dog breeds look very distinct, but cranked up to eleven with horrible deformities. Imagine if we continued to breed chihuahuas to have bigger heads and smaller bodies until they are 90% head. Or breed a breed of hound to be smaller with increasingly bigger ears until it’s 90% ears. They would still be dogs of the same species because they can procreate together.
Artificial selection!
If you think that’s amazing - look up what bananas looked like before human cultivation. Basically any fruit or vegetable you eat is the product of centuries of humans carefully selecting what seeds to save and plant.
kind of like how all citrus fruits comes from citron.
This is what happened
No, it’s cooler than that! All these vegetables are cultivars of the same species (Brassica oleracea). Citrus trees are different species with common origins.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brassica_oleracea https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citrus
Its exactly like that.
Wait, but I put mustard on my broccoli…
Yo dawg, I heard you like mustard…
And every one fucking delicious
People have some hate boner against Brussels sprouts, but damn - if you know how to prepare them, they’re delicious.
Look, anything pan fried with butter, salt, black pepper, bacon and a little white wine is going to taste great…
I just bake them with a little oilve oil, salt and rosemary. That’s all it takes. If I have the time I boil them for 5 minutes before cutting them in half and baking them.
Selective breeding does play a role but also how you prepare them. Just like other brassicae if you cook them for too long they start smelling bad, so you want to use high heat and relatively short cooking times.
For example. My go-to approach is to cut them into halves and pan-fry in lard. High fire. People claim it’s delicious.
I mean, things fried in lard do usually come out delicious.
Right, when I was growing up, always steamed or boiled - absolute trash. Just throw them on a pan under the broiler with some oil and salt/pepper chefs kiss
I’ve had this discussion before, had the “proper way” of preparing them explained to me and made them according to these instructions. Turns out, I just don’t like the taste. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Individual tastes are a thing, too. At least someone out there is bound to dislike even the most beloved dishes; the thing, for me, is how many people claim to hate Brussels sprouts, even if they deserve some leafy and greasy love.
Does this mean I can put mustard on things instead of eating all these vegetables?
See, I like vegetables!
Wow, 7 bad flavors out of one plant. What a record
They’re delicious if cooked properly. I’m a lazy bastard and just microwave steam my cauliflower and broccoli though.
how much bacon fat is required to turn it delicious
Literally none.
Weird how mustard (the condiment) tastes so good yet the cultivars of this particular species all taste horrible to me.
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lol and I think they all taste bad.
And the only thing that tastes good is the seeds. SMH
mustard on the beat, yo
kale caul kohl kål
Even the etymological family is a mess. They all backtrack to Latin caulis stalk, stem, cabbage stem; but even in closely related language varieties they might mean different plant varieties, like
- Galician, general - col wild kale/cabbage/whatever, collards
- Galician, south - couva~couve kale
- Portuguese - couve kale
- Spanish - col cabbage
…and of course people had to reborrow the word from Latin to refer to stems in general, to make the thing even messier. (e.g. PT “caule” stem)
Yeah, it’s wild how many times that root has been reborrowed for different vegetable names
Yeah, it’s wild how many times that root has been reborrowed for different vegetable names
The root is the same, but the stems and leaves are all different!
What I never understood was how some of these give me such horrible pain and some are fine.
The fact all of these different things come from the same plant make me feel a lot better about the whole cilantro/coriander thing. I was condescendingly told they were the same thing, but the seed and leaf taste very different!
Triangle of U is best triangle.
