Aspergers officinalis
Aspergers officinalis
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I've never understood this meme. Like what did you expect them to look like, and why is this apparently alarming?
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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.
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Asperger = asparagus brings me happy memories of fooling around with this therms, I'm asparagus.
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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.
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Would you expect them to grow on a vine like beans or something?
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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.
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never really thought about it
I’m a breastparagus man myself
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if you seen agave and aloe blooming, its because they are in the same orders, thts why thier blooms looks giant asparagus shoots.
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Asperagus blooming:
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Don't google what Hans Asparagus did to disabled kids!
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And don't look up his friend, Pauli Broccoli. I've heard he's even worse.
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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
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I raise you brussels sprouts:
I'll see your Brussels Sprouts, and raise you Cashews:
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?
Did you know that cashews come from a fruit?
I can't believe you just spent an hour hotgluing brussel sprouts to a small tree just to trick people on the internet
I even traveled all the way to brussels to get them just for this prank.
Wtf no way this is real
EDIT: whoa
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
and these are all related to cabbages, cauliflowers, broccoli too, they come from the same species.
And the violet one tastes great:
And here I always thought they grew like tiny cabbages
they are cultivars of the same species. cabbages, broccili, cauliflowers, brussel sprouts,,,etc. Brassica oleracea, also includes kale and collard greens
bok choi, napa cabbages are from a related species, similar bred.
Wait until you hear how closely related they are to cabbages
Brussels sprouts are unreal
You can buy them like that in a grocer though. Shit for fridge space.
Yea I've only seen them once though. Usually they are sold pretrimmed in a bag, in the US at least.
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.
On another branch of that family tree, those leaves are kale.
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
they are buds of the flowering part. we eat the flowering parts mostly, like broccoli, cauliflower.
You could have given me a million guesses and I wouldn't have arrived at that!