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[–] 64 points 1 year ago (6 children)

All look the same as a silhouette.

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  • [–] 36 points 1 year ago (4 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.

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  • [–] 32 points 1 year ago (8 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.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

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  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Closely followed by nightshade and umbellifer

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

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (7 children)

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

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (6 children)

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

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (5 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

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (4 children)

    like a truck

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

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (3 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

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (2 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.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year 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?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (5 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.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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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  • 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.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    based and triangle of u pilled

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    But do the cabbage worms fuck with it?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year 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.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year 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?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

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

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  • All hail brassica prime

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago

    I mrreow meow

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