Would you expect them to grow on a vine like beans or something?
Aspergers officinalis
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SatyrSack@lemmy.sdf.org 1 month ago
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Bunched together or with leaves around them was my assumption, not individually like someone just bought some and stuck them in the ground.
Didn’t know we harvested them as baby plants.
TowardsTheFuture@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Oh no that’s not even them as babies. That’s like two years in.
This is baby asparagus. It takes forever to develop to actual asperagus stage.
themeatbridge@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Wait… How do we know that someone didn’t just buy some and stuck them in the ground to make us think that this is how they grow?
Zachariah@lemmy.world 1 month ago
never really thought about it
I’m a breastparagus man myself
JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Dad that’s gross, geez!
Akasazh@feddit.nl 1 month ago
If you want them to remain white, you have to cover them in earth, the father’s make ridges of earth to cover them:
meliaesc@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Why would you want them to remain white?
Akasazh@feddit.nl 1 month ago
Because they are delicious that way!
Freshly cooked with egg, ham and butter sauce they are very good. It’s called 'white gold’in the Netherlands.
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 1 month ago
because racism
muts@feddit.nl 1 month ago
White gold
M137@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The only way I’ve seen white asparagus is in glass jars with brine and those are disgusting.
A_Chilean_Cyborg@feddit.cl 1 month ago
Asperger = asparagus brings me happy memories of fooling around with this therms, I’m asparagus.
javiwhite@feddit.uk 1 month ago
Somewhat related story; my middle name is Peter, and I had seemingly misheard it, as for the first 6 years of my life I thought my middle name was pizza.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 month ago
if you seen agave and aloe blooming, its because they are in the same orders, thts why thier blooms looks giant asparagus shoots.
I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Vespair@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
I’ve never understood this meme. Like what did you expect them to look like, and why is this apparently alarming?
Donkter@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I expected them to hang off a central stalk. Or perhaps grow like corn, where there’s a more plant-looking plant growing with the asparagus inside it.
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Don’t google what Hans Asparagus did to disabled kids!
ObviouslyNotBanana@piefed.world 1 month ago
And don't look up his friend, Pauli Broccoli. I've heard he's even worse.
untorquer@lemmy.world 1 month ago
So someone bought asparagus from the market, stuck it in the ground, took a picture, and it’s indistinguishable from the real thing?
Otherwise it’s surely not a shitpost
bigfondue@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I raise you brussels sprouts:
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ignotum@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I can’t believe you just spent an hour hotgluing brussel sprouts to a small tree just to trick people on the internet
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
I even traveled all the way to brussels to get them just for this prank.
ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 1 month ago
I’ll see your Brussels Sprouts, and raise you Cashews:
Cashew fruit
CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 1 month ago
Aren’t the tops edible too? I wonder how the little shriveled bean thing on the end became internationally popular but the juicy looking fruit on top isn’t. Like, every cashew harvested has to have the fruity part too, what do they all get used for?
incogtino@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Did you know that cashews come from a fruit?
MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 1 month ago
I see your brussels sprouts and raise you pineapples:
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Canconda@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Fuck. Im in a hot area but not zone 10-12 hot.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 month ago
and they are primitive versions of grasses, POALES.
idunnololz@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Damn. You beat me to it.
haerrii@feddit.org 1 month ago
Wtf no way this is real
bigfondue@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Yea I wasn’t sure how I thought they grew, but I never would have guessed that. I saw them at the supermarket on the stem and I was like wtf
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 month ago
and these are all related to cabbages, cauliflowers, broccoli too, they come from the same species.
M137@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Peanuts:
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Yes, they grow underground like potatoes.
Liz@midwest.social 1 month ago
Well but they aren’t roots, they’re from a stem that goes back under.
moitoi@piefed.social 1 month ago
And the violet one tastes great:
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CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 1 month ago
And here I always thought they grew like tiny cabbages
justastranger@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Wait until you hear how closely related they are to cabbages
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 month ago
they are cultivars of the same species. cabbages, broccili, cauliflowers, brussel sprouts,etc.
bok choi, napa cabbages are from a related species, similar bred.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
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Brussels sprouts are unreal
frog@feddit.uk 1 month ago
I’ve seen markets sell brussels sprouts on the stalk but I didn’t know it had leaves.
I figured the leaves were the brussels sprouts,
Thanks for the info.
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 1 month ago
On another branch of that family tree, those leaves are kale.
Eq0@literature.cafe 1 month ago
First time I saw them I felt like someone was playing a massive prank on me… in a random supermarket, by putting clearly alien veggies in the veggie section
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 month ago
they are buds of the flowering part. we eat the flowering parts mostly, like broccoli, cauliflower.
FluidBeef@quokk.au 1 month ago
You can buy them like that in a grocer though. Shit for fridge space.
bigfondue@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Yea I’ve only seen them once though. Usually they are sold pretrimmed in a bag, in the US at least.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
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You could have given me a million guesses and I wouldn’t have arrived at that!