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[-] grte@lemmy.ca 129 points 2 years ago

The nightshade family also gives us a lot of important vegetables. Potatoes, tomatoes, and peppers being the most common but others as well.

[-] Zagorath@aussie.zone 104 points 2 years ago

And then there's Brassica oleracea, where it's not even a family, but one single species that brings us a heap of classic veggies including cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, kale, Brussels sprouts, and gai lan. If you expand to its family you can add turnip, bok choy, radish, wasabi, as well as the majority of source vegetables in the eponymous "vegetable oil".

[-] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 33 points 2 years ago

Are you saying a vegetable fried this rice?

[-] Frozengyro@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago
[-] Zagorath@aussie.zone 5 points 2 years ago
[-] Ephera@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 years ago

Does this help?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switcheroo

It's kind of an internet culture thing to respond like that...

[-] Zagorath@aussie.zone 6 points 2 years ago

No I'm familiar with the ol' Reddit switcheroo. I don't understand what exactly is being switched in this case.

[-] Ephera@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago

Yeah, it's a bit of a stretch here. The comment is intentionally mixing things up for comedic effect, but it's not a direct switch of anything...

[-] Zagorath@aussie.zone 5 points 2 years ago

Damn. I didn’t understand the joke the above user was making and was hoping that by understanding why it’s a switcheroo I could understand the original joke. But now I’m no closer than where I started.

[-] Ephera@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago

That's an existential crisis I've had after starting to eat vegan. Suddenly everything in your cupboard is a plant, with the exception of salt and sometimes mushrooms.

It's just like: I'll now eat this noodle-shaped plant with this pureed plant and this protein-rich plant and I'll also throw in some tasty plant shreds. Maybe I should also have some plant leaves with a dressing out of plant oil, fermented plant juice and this plant seed paste.

But then I realized that meat, eggs, cheese, milk, and even mushrooms, they're all just processed/digested plants, too. So, there's only plants and salt. Which really didn't make the existential crisis any better, but at least we're all in it together. 🙃

[-] Zerush@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

All beings, including us, are descendants of the first single-celled being that appeared on Earth billions of years ago. We share 75% of our DNA with a potato (some people which I know, even more)

[-] randint@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

So that's why some vegetables sometimes have that wasabi taste to them.

[-] menemen@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Also my lovely Cucurbitales, from cucumbers over pumpkins up to melons.

[-] Kalkaline@lemmy.zip 12 points 2 years ago

Don't forget the brassicas too

[-] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

The culinary history of humanity is just one long dare about eating the killer plants.

[-] menemen@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Thanks to all our forefather who ate enough poisonous squashes for us to enjoy squash soup and pumpkin pies.

[-] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I love all those vegetables but if I had to give up allium or nightshades, I'd give up nightshades.

[-] Denvil@lemmy.one 6 points 2 years ago

I love garlic as much as the next guy, but I don't think I could imagine food without potatoes

[-] Zerush@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

Tobacco is also in this family

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