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Asparagus

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For anyone interested, this is how wild asparagus grows:
- If you trimmed the bush back it'd look larger.
  
  I would not recommend for people to casually start trimming plantlife in the wild. /s
  Unironically though there might be lots of insects living within that ecosystem that rely on it. If you don't need something for a dish or specific resource, just leave it alone.
  
  This is what I keep telling the Mrs.
- We have loads of wild asparagus where I live. My new favorite activity this year has been asparagus foraging!
  
  Is asparagus foraging that fun, or is it just the funniest activity you have there?
- I was fully prepared for the image to load and for it to be the same one as the post lol
I work with a team of people from all over the world , and the word “eggplant” came up the other day. They asked me why Americans call an “aubergine” an “eggplant.”
So I showed them a photo of an unripe eggplant:
- Americans really do label things like cave men just saying the most simple words to describe something:
  Eggplant > looks like an egg and is a plant
  Sidewalk > side of road you walk on
  I’m all out of example but I’m sure there are more like this and I like it.
  
  Parkway and driveway got mixed up for some reason
  
  It’s not unique to Americans. A lot of cultures use compound words to describe new things
- What?
- A joke of a plant
- What's crazy is that not only is that the same species as broccoli, cabbage, and cauliflower, but practically the entire plant in that photo is edible.
- Brussels is such a weird city
That's nothing, look at pineapple.
- And the first English speaker who saw one went "you know what that reminds me of, apples. Wait, hear me out, apples on a pine tree."
  
  It's because it looks like a pinecone, which at the time were also called pineapples.
Username checks out.
- I was expecting something like "MyPeeSmells" when I scrolled back up. I'm more disappointed than I should be.
See, that's asparagus tricking you into thinking that is how it grows, by crafty memeing. When we (and by we I mean all right thinking ~~asparaguys~~ humans) know it isn't.
- Let's hope they don't form an alliance with the "birds"
Fennel too- I always thought the white part was below the earth, like an onion. But no, the whole fennel sits on the earth, on a tippy root that's underground.

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