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Sequoia Brussels sprouts are delicious but it’s pretty hard to finish one.
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This is especially funny to me because I tell people all the time about kale being a man made (cultivated) plant from the wild mustard seed.
I usually ask people to name a food stuff that hasn’t been genetically manipulated in some way by human hands. You can’t. There really are none. Even non-gmo food stuffs are still selectively bred or clonal species.
Salt.
That’s just an edible rock.
So, not genetically manipulated, then. 🤷♂️
Blackberries have grown wild in Europe for thousands of years. The US ones have been messed with by farmers and scientists, but in the UK they’re pretty much the original deal.
Yeah I was thinking about this recently. Wild blackberries you see all over the place growing like a weed are pretty much the exact same as the ones you see in a shop.
It’s nothing like, say, apples, which have been changed a lot by humans.
Same with lots of berries, like billberries, currants and raspberry.
Wild fish and game come to mind
Fish.
Also macadamias, and lillipilli. And the cabbage tree palm. Warrigal Greens.
Coconuts, I expect.
I am yet to believe the humble blackberry is a cultivar.
Possibly kangaroo meat? Boomers such as the Eastern Grey are pretty unmanipulated, and taste like venison.
But mostly fish. And lobsters/crays/crabs.
Is it not the case that kale, broccoli, cauliflower and cabbage are all basically derived from the same plant?
This is what I’ve been told, but I am very ignorant of such matters and while you will say that I can simply Google the issue, which is true, it’s never been enough of a priority for me to do so, goddammit.
As for Sequoia sempervirens or Sequoiadendron giganteum being forms of broccoli, I do in fact know enough dendrology to know that it’s bullshyte.
I hate when people say Google things, fuck off I’m here for the community.
Not to mention 99% of sites being ad-ridden bullshit while serious responses on forums tend to be short, sweet and more educational than searching
Presumably invented by someone who hates food that tastes good.
You haven’t had the right kale. The stuff they use for chips and salad is way too fibrous, but there are varieties that taste and feel a lot better.
I feel like this applies to asparagus as well.
The alt text is wrong, isn’t it?
Whooooosh
Alt texts have a purpose. Some people are dependent on them. But sure, make fun of me for caring, go ahead.
Regardless of the other comment, you’re right, the alt text is wrong. Alt text is used by visually impaired users to understand what the image is about and is not the place to put the title of the XKCD.
It’s not the title, but rather a sort of “bonus joke” that pops up when you hover a cursor over the image (or long press on mobile I think). It’s a staple of xkcd and other webcomics, but I’ll grant that it does present some confusion for those who rely on alt text.
I for one appreciated that being in the post so I didn’t need to click thru for the bonus joke as I usually would. Perhaps it’s just better to call it something other than alt text.
Sequoia Brussels sprouts are delicious but it’s pretty hard to finish one.
Yes, it’s a pretty obvious riff on the main joke, i.e. entertaining the idea that Brassica sequoia is a real thing, based on the fact that brussels sprouts, like cauliflower, collards, kohlrabi, cabbage and others, are all cultivars of B. oleracea.
If you didn’t know that last bit, I can see getting confused about the alt-text.
The point is that it’s not an alt text. Also I was quite tired when writing my first comment
In this case, it’s not really on OP; that’s what Randall puts in the xkcd alt text. There is a transcription for each comic on explainxkcd that ppl could copy to the post though
