To be honest, I’ve noticed that with lots of foods. I know what the thing looks like in stores, but I have no idea what it’s like in nature.
Cashews were another recent one, where I never would have guessed what they look like:
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JoMiran@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
To be honest, I’ve noticed that with lots of foods. I know what the thing looks like in stores, but I have no idea what it’s like in nature.
Cashews were another recent one, where I never would have guessed what they look like:
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I just ate wholemeal rice and still would not have guessed rice. 🥴
I guess I assumed ‘sprout’ meant directly out of the ground instead of a “Brussels tree”.
I don’t recognize a few of the other ones.
Brussels sprouts, pineapple, asparagus, rice, peanuts, chocolate.
If that’s not a coconut, what the fuck have I been eating?
Go get those weird looking white ones from an Asian grocery store, they look like styrofoam cylinders with carved pointed tops. Use a butcher’s knife to chop the point off. Insert straw and long spoon to carve the natural jell-o out with. Thank me later.
My preferred method is to use a half inch drill bit and a power drill.
Processed by extracting the liquid from the pulp of the coconut…
This is not an equivalent process to extracting juice…
It literally is the same process. 🤦♂️
Yeah, I know it is a joke and all, but coconuts doesn’t have hairs or contain milk, so that particular example doesn’t undermine “morphology-based phylogeny” at all.
On related news, the salmon fish is not salmon color… And beef comes in larger packages on nature.
Maybe we just disagree on what color “salmon” is, but the meat is what I would call that color. They’re like flamingos in that they take on pigment from their diet. For this reason, farmed salmon will not be “salmon” color unless their diet has been supplemented with the pigment.
Also not a nut.
It’s the coco fruit
Of the coco tree
Sigh… /* opens YouTube /*
Which is not a tree.
I got to travel Southeast Asia for a time, it’s atrocious how much we’re missing out on in the USA.
Even the really fresh coconuts here just don’t compare to the ones you get fresh off a tree. It’s unreal.
I lived in the US Virgin Islands as a kid. Our back yard had a seemingly endless supply of mangoes, bananas, avocado, lime, oranges (the real stuff, not the engineered shit we eat in the mainland), grapefruit, bread fruit, acerola, plantains, and pigeon peas. It wasn’t even that big a yard. Shit just grows.
Have you tried a papaya growing off the roadside?
They exist in FL and I’ve climbed trees to get em. I like em when they’re yellow. Delicious coconut water and basically a coconut “jelly” lining. I also lived in the Caribbean my early life (2-7) so had a lot down there too, plus fresh sugarcane, guava, mangoes, and a thing we called a plum but was a small tree fruit that I also loved yellow ripeness. After a quick Google evidently called a June Plum or a hog plum. Used to eat em straight from the tree.
that looks underripe to me
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(from researchgate), Maturity stages of coconut: a) young; b) early ripening; c) ripe
From experience: all stages of a coconut are distinct, edible and used for different dishes, treats, condiments and ingredients.
i think they’re only familiar with it because they don’t pay attention to their thai food. that has exploded in popularity over the last few decades and fuck yeah.
Underripe is when it’s nice and full of water. Best when thirsty. Dry and ripe, best when hungry.
Coconuts are tropical! This is temperate zone!
How is this the temperate zone?? You know how the internet works?
Famko@lemmy.world 2 days ago
That coconut is clearly not on a palm tree, mate. /s