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this meme has some truth in it, in that these six vegetables are all brassica oleracea. but, the factoid in the center of the meme is misleading: brassica oleracea can be many things but (despite brassicaceae being "the mustard and cabbage family") brassica oleracea is not typically called "wild mustard plant".
edit: toned down my refutation; i guess maybe it is sometimes π but i think not really
Tagged & linked comment. :)
Except that it's not the wild mustard plant. It's the wild cabbage plant. Wild mustard is totally different genusv and species.
Srsly. What is this bullshit.
Wait... it's all mustard?
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.
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
Citron broke my brain. If you're telling me this is mustard and only mustard, my brain might just die in confusion.
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 thatβs 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.
My wife and I had fried plantains at a Venezuelan restaurant a couple weeks ago. That shit was absolutely divine with beans, rice, meat, and a fried egg on top.
π«πΌ Always has been.
cabbage, to be more accurate
To all the veggie haters:
Broccoli recipe:
Cauliflower recipe:
Sprouts do well with Braising, this is roughly how I do them, based on a whim that turned out fantastic.
I know sprouts are far less bitter than they were when I was a kid, but I legit thought I disliked them. Borrowed a lot from braised cabbage recipes, just with a bit more aggressive browning. The sprouts hold up really well to longer cooking IMO (can't say the same to leeks, braised leeks are great, but not how I did them, turned into a textural nightmare), they're amazing hot or cold.
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 literally just take them out of the freezer, drizzle a little bit of olive oil (1-3grams), salt, garlic powder and air fry them for 23 minutes at 200 C.
That's it.
Same recipe works with green beans, asparagus, broccoli
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.
the don't smell bad.. they just smell like cabbage when cooked longer
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 actually prefer to eat them raw. A cup a day before sleeping. They act as sleeping pills for me
You get used to the taste and learn to enjoy it, same as with beer except they are good for you and increase hair density. Itβs a real life equivalent of ent water
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. Β―\_(γ)_/Β―
Animals turn into crab, plant turn outfrom cabbage
Wait, but I put mustard on my broccoli...
Yo dawg, I heard you like mustard...
Damn these healthy GMOs!
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 bella-donna (deadly nightshade)
We also eat like two animals, sea insects and variants of dog
Just a small correction: you missed an "a" in bella-donna (bella donna means "beautiful woman" in Italian)
Does this mean I can put mustard on things instead of eating all these vegetables?
ancient and medieval europeans went through some shit
I have an opinion on all of these foods!
