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[-] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 13 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

Weird how mustard (the condiment) tastes so good yet the cultivars of this particular species all taste horrible to me.

[-] tyler@programming.dev 4 points 19 hours ago

lol and I think they all taste bad.

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[-] tetrachromacy@lemmy.world 9 points 18 hours ago

mustard on the beat, yo

[-] belated_frog_pants@beehaw.org 7 points 17 hours ago

Wow, 7 bad flavors out of one plant. What a record

[-] Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 17 hours ago

They're delicious if cooked properly. I'm a lazy bastard and just microwave steam my cauliflower and broccoli though.

[-] match@pawb.social 2 points 17 hours ago

how much bacon fat is required to turn it delicious

[-] teletext@reddthat.com 10 points 16 hours ago

Literally none.

[-] jlh@lemmy.jlh.name 8 points 18 hours ago
[-] lvxferre@mander.xyz 6 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

Even the etymological family is a mess. They all backtrack to Latin caulis stalk, stem, cabbage stem; but even in closely related language varieties they might mean different plant varieties, like

  • Galician, general - col wild kale/cabbage/whatever, collards
  • Galician, south - couva~couve kale
  • Portuguese - couve kale
  • Spanish - col cabbage

...and of course people had to reborrow the word from Latin to refer to stems in general, to make the thing even messier. (e.g. PT "caule" stem)

[-] jlh@lemmy.jlh.name 5 points 16 hours ago

Yeah, it's wild how many times that root has been reborrowed for different vegetable names

[-] lvxferre@mander.xyz 5 points 15 hours ago

Yeah, it’s wild how many times that root has been reborrowed for different vegetable names

The root is the same, but the stems and leaves are all different!

[-] Kolanaki@pawb.social 4 points 17 hours ago

And the only thing that tastes good is the seeds. SMH

[-] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 2 points 19 hours ago

Triangle of U is best triangle.

[-] i_dont_want_to 1 points 17 hours ago

What I never understood was how some of these give me such horrible pain and some are fine.

The fact all of these different things come from the same plant make me feel a lot better about the whole cilantro/coriander thing. I was condescendingly told they were the same thing, but the seed and leaf taste very different!

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