Kale, Cauliflower, and Brussels Sprouts Are the Same Species

Not to deter you from eating your vegetables, but what if we told you that certain parts of your salads, like kale, broccoli, and cauliflower were all the same species?
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[@raythegardener]

So cauliflower is a dog of the plant world? Collieflower?

[@chelarestelar]

And it doesn't flower either

[@sofiatgarcia3970]

I believe that should be Collie-flower. :)

[@coltafanan]

Stop 🛑

[@Joe_Potts]

Boo! Get off the stage 😂

[@raythegardener]

Actually, after domesticating the brassica oleracea plants, they developed many 'collared' greens. Besides Collie-flower there's Kohlabradoodle, Broc-collie and Basset Sprouts (though its long body shows it is a bit of a stretch). ; )

[@ramshacklealex7772]

Fun fact: the French word for cauliflower is "chou-fleur", which literally translated means "cabbage-flower"

[@Felisquoreda]

In German it's "Blumenkohl" which means "flower-cabbage"😀

[@fish3977]

"kukkakaali" or "flower cabbage" in Finnish too. In fact, most of those plants name is some variation of X-cabbage

[@TheSylda]

In Dutch it's "bloemkool", which means "flower cabbage", also kale is "boerenkool" which means farmers' cabbage

[@AngDavies]

Welsh has blodfresych (cabbageflower) for cauliflower and blodfresych gaeaf (winter cabbageflower) for broccoli

[@Ubeogesh]

in russian we just use the word "cabbage" with an adjective for all of these except broccoli

[@TheKitKatProject]

MY CABBAGES! - a surprisingly knowledgeable merchant of cabbage, 2005

[@IrredeemableGhost]

I was looking for this. Thank you

[@IRosamelia]

I would love to have known the reference to this comment 😅

[@ReyMysterioX]

@@IRosamelia A running gag in the Avatar animated series.

[@TheKitKatProject]

@@IrredeemableGhost Happy to oblige, dear poltergeist 😄

[@spacemoth4973]

Poor cabbage merchant, just wanted to sell his cabbages

[@noytelinu]

"Hey what if I took this one part of the plant and go nuts with it?" -Sam O'nella kinda

[@OtakuUnitedStudio]

A fellow student of the Academy, I see.

[@madeline99awfulradiatorlove]

@@t4ky0n howdy smart boi

[@TheHammy2211]

"YOU'RE NEXT, SUSAN!"

[@marvyricafrente8754]

*yeets someone to the sun

[@revolutionarycomrade]

@@TheHammy2211 how do you know my name?! 😱

[@garethdean6382]

'Do you really want to eat food that's been grossly and unnaturally modified from its natural state?' 'You mean broccoli?'

[@vinjetornberg4660]

This is not what this means and the process that is referred to is different from this process.

[@BTheHeretic]

@@vinjetornberg4660 It's not that different really. GMO process is generally just slightly accelerated selective breeding.

[@garethdean6382]

Is it? The fruits and vegetables we eat now are nothing like what they were 500 or even 100 years ago. Sugar levels, nutrients, disease resistance... we've toyed with them all at an increasing pace. Fruit juice can now rival soft drinks for sugar content yet we implicitly assume this is natural and pure somehow, as if wild apples were fist sized, sweet and cherry red. Wild carrots aren't orange, they were bred that way by the patriotic Dutch, yet if you told people you were going to make a blue tomato they'd freak. People need to be aware of the history behind their foodstuffs.

[@Orinslayer]

@@garethdean6382 actually all apples that arent grown through cloning are very small and tart. In order to get tasty apples, limbs of the apple tree are removed and grafted onto another apple tree.

[@Dragrath1]

@@Orinslayer That is they want hardy disease resistant trees and then graft the desired fruit variety onto them

[@Fetch049]

So, when my kids call brussel sprouts "broccoli balls" they're actually right!

[@GratiaCountryman]

My grandfather always called Brussel Sprouts “educated cabbage”. He was right.

[@familia3sgte]

This makes sense since Broly is Kale's counterpart in Universe 6.

[@gibranhenriquedesouza2843]

saiyans are based in plants.

[@housephone9090]

Was looking for a dbs comment

[@dawickedj]

Yes I needed this with the 'Kale and Cauliflower' title

[@williamoldaker5348]

"Whole body tinkering" sounds villainous.

[@borkborkfoxxo279]

@Manophire.com I've called the police on you for giving me a stroke. Did you write your comment in english?

[@scaper8]

Welcome to the human race; being all-out nightmarish Lovecraftian abominations is what we do best. We just rarely see the proverbial forest for the trees since were right in the thick of it.

[@MeisterJ]

i did a botany minicomic about food a few years ago and covered this and the berry thing y'all mentioned in the video about poorly named things. Botany is to cool and good and I wish more people understood just how fascinating plants can be. thank you for sharing. cool suggestion could be on plant movement and how; like the shy fern (momosa pudica), trapping plants or when trees more their leaves before a storm

[@iambiggus]

Jasmine P Right on 👍. I studied botany in college, but it was really just one plant. Actually, I think botanically it’s classified as a weed 😁

[@voidremoved]

@@iambiggus useless I am mistaken, what you reefer to is a vegetable...

[@iambiggus]

voidremoved Ah yes, the Devil’s Lettuce. Good call!

[@daniellewilson8527]

iambiggus I don’t think weed is a botanical classification. If I’m wrong, correct me, but I think weed is what people call plants they don’t want in their garden. Amaranth is classified as a weed in some places, but in other places they are grown for their seeds.

[@huldu]

On some planet out there I'm sure there are plant creatures moving around because why wouldn't there be.

[@bripez]

I had never heard a vegetable be described as ‘feral’ until today.

[@jackielinde7568]

Generally we use a different term for that (invasive), but yeah, any plant or animal that grows on it's own in absence of human care is feral.

[@mozismobile]

I have lettuce growing in my lawn... does that count?

[@FizzySugarStar]

@@mozismobile if you planted it and care for it no if it just grows on its own and you do nothing to help at all yes

[@LENZ5369]

@@jackielinde7568 'Invasive' is reserved for plants and animals that we have decided is 'bad' for whatever reason. We usually just use 'wild'; which is a synonym of 'feral' (lines up with the dog analogy).

[@patrickmccurry1563]

@@LENZ5369 incorrect. Feral is specifically a domesticated life form living in the wild.

[@kassandranna]

"Who is a good boy? Who is? Yes! Yes, you are!" *Proceeds to it delicious brocoli*

[@TheCimbrianBull]

Woof! Woof! Woof! 🐩🐕

[@kittycat-sc7je]

I don't understand what this mean's can someone explain?

[@kassandranna]

@@kittycat-sc7je well, these plants had been named "dogs of the plant world" (or something like that), hence I imagined a situation where a person played "the good boy" game with brocoli as if it was a dog and then decided to eat it. I thought this was hilarious and absurd, and wanted to share.

[@ElPikminMaster]

Alright, all those who already knew this due to our boy Sam O'Nella say aye.

[@massimookissed1023]

I knew this in spite of Sam O'Nella. :)

[@TheHammy2211]

Aye

[@falpsdsqglthnsac]

Aye

[@nickb8755]

Aye

[@dandrg8421]

Aye

[@ChefMimsy]

"All lettuce looks lettucey... ? How did I get a biology degree without ever considering this?

[@JohnCena8351]

You must have cheated then.

[@ThrottleKitty]

The subtle complexities of what precisely make something "letucey" or not might be difficult to ascertain from a cursory examination.

[@Cpt_John_Price]

"Yes, the snow is snowier than before."

[@jenn4593]

@@ThrottleKitty 🤣🤣🤣

[@rr64zbr1]

As a French person this makes perfect sense to me, as all of these are called "chou" in French: chou de Bruxelles, chou-fleur, chou-rave, chou frisé, chou romanesco, chou rouge, chou pointu... Only broccoli is just broccoli

[@Felisquoreda]

In German they are all "Kohl" except broccoli. 😀 And Romanesco

[@heatherswanson1664]

Except you guys call potatoes "pommes de terre" and it's not really an apple

[@Fusselwurmify]

@@Felisquoreda we should find a German name for broccoli. What about … oh see! We do have some: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brokkoli . tl;dr: Sprossenkohl, Bröckelkohl, Spargelkohl, Winterblumenkohl.

[@rr64zbr1]

@@heatherswanson1664 Well we also call them "patates" and in old French pomme used to mean any type of fruit...

[@squirlmy]

the English word cauliflower comes from the Italian "cabbage-flower". It comes from a long tradition of keeping a Romance language name to keep sales high, rather than give a dull, ordinary "English" name. Cauliflower sounds more appetizing and elegant than "cabbage-flower". Many foods sound awful when Anglicized, partly because a French-speaking court ruled after 1066, and everything connected to aristocracy was renamed in French, including fine foods. Not to mention the French are simply much better cooks, and have a long tradition of this. Therefore things with French (or Italian) names sound delicious, and get adopted whole into English. I was about to give potato as an example, but on second thought even that name might be from a Romance language

[@CanuckMonkey13]

I looked at the title for this one and thought, dismissively, "Yeah, I already know about that and a bunch of other members of the species. What could I POSSIBLY learn here?" I am SO glad that I watched anyway! There was, apparently, an ASTONISHING amount more to be learned!

[@iambiggus]

I like them all, but kale 🥬. Although if you cook it thoroughly in coconut oil and lots of butter, it makes it much easier for the garbage disposal to grind up.

[@ddoyle11]

Lol. I recently discovered that if you massage the kale, it becomes quite delicate and delicious. Just don’t tell your friends...

[@markchapman6800]

Who the heck bred kale, got to those fibrous leaves, and said "Yeah, that'll do"?!

[@steffeeH]

Toss those bad boys raw with some nuts and red onions and make a salad - way better option than mixing veggies with wate... oh sorry I meant to say salad.

[@z.deutch1334]

They actually taste great in fruit smoothies. Don't bash it till you try it

[@KSWfarms]

Whh Kale isn't that bad. ThoughI mostly buy it for my rabbit overlord. And it's easy to grow too.

[@dubstepbeast3974]

Wait this isn’t Dragon Ball Super!

[@darkerm76]

I know 🤣🤣🤣

[@CharlineLikesC]

Good that in German all versions of this species have remnants of the word Kohl for Cabbage in there somehow... Cabbage - Kohl (red or white) Kale - Grünkohl - green cabbage Pointed Cabbage - Spitzkohl Cauliflower - Blumenkohl - flower cabbage Broccoli - Broccoli, but it sounds like BroKOHLi Kohlrabi - cabbage turnip Brussel sprouts - Rosenkohl - rose cabbage Only exception: Savoy cabbage - mostly shortened to Wirsing (also long form Wirsingkohl)

[@nachtegaelw5389]

CharlineLikesC rosenkohl is such a nice name!

[@YellowPenetrator]

Let’s make some more varieties of this dogplant

[@renasance2]

Every time Hank wears that t-shirt, it looks like he's sweating

[@Xnaut314]

So parents have been struggling to make their kids eat their Brassica oleracea since 2000 B.C. There's your fact of the day.

[@fluffydevil13]

Xnaut314 it turns out all a longboard the secret was just buffalo seasoning.

[@ThrottleKitty]

Probably a lot easier to do when your kid has never heard of Dairy Queen, soda, or candy.

[@IamTheHolypumpkin]

What I like about most of those plants is that they are very hardy. Great winter vegetables.

[@ryanlangan1060]

You all do such great work. I love these videos!

[@heliosphaeresonnen_wind_ki5720]

and i like all of them. great plant indeed.

[@ImnotgoingSideways]

I love telling gullible 'health' nuts that kale is just a GMO of broccoli. It's almost as fun as asking them if they know why (commercial) bananas are seedless. =^-^=

[@steffeeH]

In their defense however, these plants have undergone genetic modification through selective breeding, not by directly injecting foreign DNA into them one way or another. Now I'm actually on your side, but if we are to fight them we really need to understand what they truly mean. IMO GMO is like a hammer, you can build a house with it or you can hurt someone with it, that doesn't mean the hammer is an inheretely bad invention, you just need to learn someone to use it constructively.

[@nickb8755]

Kale was actually the first version to be cultivated

[@noamtashma2859]

@@steffeeH indeed, but i think the whole point of telling "health nuts" that kale is just genetically modified brocolly, is that they themselves don't understant what GMO is.

[@BTheHeretic]

@@steffeeH GMOs are also produced by selective breeding. Only the genetic variation is "injected", although often it's much cruder than that. The resulting new genes have to be bred back into the stem plant in a process that's not any different from "natural" selective breeding.

[@purplefire2834]

Yeah. I hate people talking about how they avoid GMOs when they don't realize that EVERYTHING we eat is genetically modified. Nowadays it's just more precise and faster.

[@zacharystansell1043]

Outstanding video-- it's such a tricky question and you did an outstanding job summarizing what we know so far! (thanks for the citation as well!)

[@macnutz4206]

That means there are two kinds of dogs to love, the canine variety, and the cabbage variety. I love them both. That was very interesting. Enough to inspire searching for more info.

[@onalennasehume4586]

Gardeners watching this video: Well duh!

[@diegorodriguesdesouza7389]

Evolution: The greatest show on earth

[@AsafeFialho]

Yes!

[@nightwishlover8913]

Just ask Nightwish!!!

[@jeanthepants7905]

Love these videos

[@tbrumblow]

As a Horticulturalist this is one of my favorite facts to tell a someone when asked "what kinds of things do you learn?"

[@familywilliams4058]

Yay! Another video about Agriculture! These are my favorites... but that might be because I'm actively studying this stuff...

[@meci6625]

I love the amount of people who have watched Sam's video on this subject

[@catherine_404]

I was low-key fascinated with cabbage relatives since I was a small child. My mom used to tell me a lot about plants, including those we grew in our vegetable garden, I learned a lot and I enjoyed learning it all.

[@pieordi]

thanks for expanding my knowledge Hank

[@nickb8755]

Nice video. Wish it was longer and packed with more cabbage facts

[@aimelle3]

I already knew that because I'm allergic to all of them.

[@randomzoonerd]

I'm only allergic to kale!

[@missyoung888]

What happens when you eat them?

[@apteropith]

Aw, you didn't even mention its sister species, like turnips, and all the hybrids!

[@KittyBoom360]

So can they all interbreed? I'm curious bc that's kinda how i define same members of a species for animals.

[@garethdean6382]

Pretty much, yeah. Hence the broccoflower: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broccoflower

[@shadowprince4482]

There's got to be mutts of the different forms then and not just like one or two hybrids of them. I wonder what they are.

[@jerrypie]

@@garethdean6382 O:

[@johnbelli9390]

@@garethdean6382 And Kalettes: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalette

[@KittyBoom360]

@@garethdean6382 Thanks Gareth and John for the info and links! Learning is awesome.

[@ArgentPure]

Fascinating!

[@DataSmithy]

OMG! Having graduated with a botanist degree, I had a chance to work with brassica in the tissue culture lab in college. I'm a programmer now, bu being a home Gardener for the last 20 years, I've been telling my friends about this fact all my life! Is one of my favorite tidbits to share with other gardeners.

[@whiteeaglearai2481]

True. I see the varietie's missing link in my garden by volunteers. Very hardy specie and works well here in a damp jungle.

[@sarahchicago]

And it's not just Brassica oleracea we've done this to. The entire brassica genus is pretty adaptable. Napa cabbage, bok choy, rapini, and turnips are all one species, Brassica rapa.

[@edi9892]

Could you make an episode on wild plants and animals vs. the ones found on farms? I bet most of the viewers will be surprised.

[@Joltzis]

There are also "Jersey cabbages" in the channel Islands that can grow to 3 meters tall, and locals used their long stalks to make walking sticks

[@luizotavio2116]

Please make a video explaining what makes a species, a subspecies and a cultivar!

[@krystofdayne]

Oh man, you made me hungry. Time to go eat some yummy Brussels Sprouts 😊😊

[@sylviaorellana857]

Very interesting, I love to eat all three !🤗

[@xxXthekevXxx]

I’ve always thought of brussels sprouts as tiny cabbages and now I see I was right!

[@z.deutch1334]

This species also includes Asian greens like chinese cabbage, choy sum, bok choy, gai lan (aka Chinese broccoli) and Chinese mustard. Other plants include rutabaga, turnip and some seeds used in the production of canola oil and mustard.

[@MrZooop]

my question is really this: who looked at some of these foods and said, hey ill bet we could eat that if we made "this specific part of it" bigger. i mean, the wild version of almost everything we eat, is nigh inedible.

[@enderw.9145]

It's insane! It's been blowing my mind ever since I found out about this a while ago.

[@marcguidry5744]

I have eaten most of them, and love them all.

[@petuniasevan]

So, when you eat cauliflower, you're eating basically a keloid scar? Oi.

[@Joshua-no3vh]

I found this out years ago from a different video. Still neat.

[@KeeliaSilvis]

So cool! It makes me want to eat each of the "breeds" of this delicious species!

[@extrude22]

This is why I love science. It’s so interesting!

[@carlbradbury5191]

Nice !

[@geniusmp2001]

One of my favorites that didn't make it into this episode: Jersey cabbage. Growing in the tropics, so it doesn't have to be seasonal, the stems can be 10' high. They used to make walking sticks out of them.

[@eamonahern7495]

Cauliflower, I can use it as rice, cous cous and mashed potato substitutes. Very versatile and very edible. Cabbage, Kale and Broccoli all produce a high fodmap reaction that's tough on my gut. Although I can use them as ingredients in recipes in small amounts. Brussels sprouts are only eaten once a year at Christmas dinner so I don't worry about them too much. I do like a bit of sauerkraut though. In fact all breeds are great for fermenting.

[@charlesachurch7265]

Superb documentary. Great success with my mutoids this year . Scofferama and healthy munchingtons yeah!

[@WORLDCRUSHER9000]

*horribly malformed and eternally tortured pugs

[@feralcatgirl]

3:03 sorry but the idea of feral kale is unreasonably hilarious to me

[@cherylm2C6671]

Incredible stuff! If you think about what Alyssum means and look up the conditions that spawn grain rot such as Ergot (or fungal infection behavior and hysterias) Brassicas may have been the stuff that got humanity through bad winters, perhaps even Ice Ages, considering how food would have been stored. Would it have prevented the Potato Famine? What does it do for stored grains? I'm not sure, but Brassicas are survivors and a great remediation for abused soils. It also explains the rational behind cultivated corn smut- how Nietzhchean!

[@beth8775]

@SciShow Could do a video explaining the difference between hybridization and genetic modification? A lot of people incorrectly use those terms interchangeably.

[@laurahadley2146]

Thank you for the phrase "feral cabbage"!

[@warren286]

So that's why they all give me gas...

[@BenjiSun]

the entire Brassica genus is an even more incredibly varied array of our aboveground vegetable consumption... with napus, rapa, juncea, and oleracea being the 4 that makes up our dipping mustard, canola/rapeseed oil, several turnips, pickled vegs, a huge portion of our leafy greens that aren't spinach and beets(both amaranths) or watercress(a nasturtium, cousins of brassica). if you've eaten chinese/japanese/korean, it's highly likely you've eaten various kinds of brassica and amaranth, especially of the leafy or ...stemmy(?) varieties(like gailan or kohlrabi or the pickled zhacai). my favourite are 2 juncea, the somewhat bitter Chinese mustard green(head mustard) and mizuna(long thin stemmed leafy green for shabu shabu), and a rapa called tatsoi (grown and matured under snow and very sweet)

[@DragoNate]

It's even more interesting that some of them have a few different colored variations, like purple & yellow cauliflower.

[@GreatKeny]

Brassica rapa is another Brassica that produces tons of cultivars: bok choy, napa cabbage, rapini, turnip, tatsoi

[@MatthewOstergren]

There's a whole other family of similar varieties too coming from brassica oleora's cousin brassica rapa that mostly originated in the sino-sphere.

[@darkerm76]

The Super Saiyan family??? 😂😂😂

[@stanandre4539]

That map at 2:35 is awesome, what's the source and is it topologically accurate?

[@mattk6101]

I agree with broccoli coming first before cauliflower. They were probably growing fields of it and saw some that didn't flower fully. And since they probably didn't want to waste any food, they said "oh well" and ate it.

[@seankraus5246]

Too cool

[@VinegarPotato]

As a good cook, I can also add that they are similar in that they are very annoying to wash. They take quite a long time to wash, however, they all taste so great :).

[@Dylan-vd6rz]

Y'all for got to mention mustard. That yellow stuff folks put on burgers and hotdogs is also from the same plant family.

[@ZipplyZane]

Citrus fruits are pretty diverse, too being cultivated by mixing only a handful of wild varieties.

[@tinythingy4]

these are great vegetables

[@ZeusTheIrritable]

I always laugh when I see "Non GMO" labels on stuff.

[@enderallygolem]

I die inside whenever I see "Organic"

[@purplefire2834]

"All-natural"

[@ThrottleKitty]

At the Trader Joe's near here, on the rare occasion I need to go there for something weird, I've noticed a section of "Organic" and "non organic" bananas. They are identical, just twice as much for the ones with the organic sticker. I even bought two of each to see. Ate one of each, tasted the same, let the other sit, both went bad just as quick. It's litterally the same banana, they just charged double for one to see how dumb people are. The "organic" bananas were almost gone, clearly much more popular. People are dumb as hell.

[@ZeusTheIrritable]

@@ThrottleKitty Yeah. There's nothing wrong with "Organic" produce. There's nothing special about them either. The only difference is the source of pesticidal chemicals used. In the case of bananas, there might not even be that, considering where they're grown. People just don't know what they're buying. Unfortunately, even when they do they sometimes don't care and just buy in to the marketing.

[@ThrottleKitty]

@@ZeusTheIrritable As there is no regulation on the word "Organic", they can technically spray whatever chemicals they want on it and still cal it "Organic". it's down to the companies good will to do anything different to make the label have any meaning. Other times they just swap to "Organic" pesticides, which brings us back to the same issue. "Organic" is an unregulated word, meaning those pesticides are actually no safer. The most pesticide laced cigarettes could slap it on their label without any legal repercussions. It's best to google individual brands and their production habits to see what sort of chemicals they include in their products. It's annoying, but worth it as I often I find some of the "cleanest" products are super cheap brands with super cheap, basic labeling. Usually the companies really proudly stating "ORGANIC" are doing as part of an expensive advertisement campaign, meaning the price of the item has been hiked to compensate. The most cheap, bare bones products are often the "cleanest" and most "close to nature". After all, it costs money to treat and spray products with chemicals.

[@imranshishir1947]

Kale/ cauliflower/ brussel sprouts. What is this a DBS episode!? :)

[@khipp13]

I just did a lesson on this with my bio students. Lol Next time I teach this I will show them this video.

[@newfaceh214]

Thanks for informatic video. I don t knewd about cabbige- mutant.🤨

[@Nayarita97]

Cooked... they pretty much all taste the same to me.. makes sense now

[@Fusselwurmify]

kale, brussel sprouts, cauliflower… these are really different names. Fun fact: in German, they are Grünkohl, Rosenkohl, Blumenkohl … all variations on "Kohl" which is "cabbage"

[@jadedj5385]

I did not know this information but my stomach had been aware for years as it has a hard time digesting them.

[@PacRimElectric]

Love me some Brussels sprouts

[@mithrildragonlh]

This reminds me of the Simpson's episode when Lisa goes vegetarian and Homer lists off all the pork meats XD

[@imobmo6165]

Shout out to the Legend, Sam O'nella Academy!!

[@Beryllahawk]

Another wonderful tidbit first related to me by Alton Brown. Y'all watching some Food Network lately? :P Though I did learn something new! I had no clue that collard greens were Greek. I honestly thought that was a variety cultivated very recently in the American South. It truly is astounding what variety is seen within the brassica. I haven't met any yet that I don't like, though I have no illusions that I've tried them all. Now here's a question though: what about something like "ornamental kale" - the stuff you see in a lot of municipal flower beds and so forth? Is it in fact a brassica or is this another case of a somewhat misleading name?

[@sadalien9049]

I never knew vegetables could be so interesting :P

[@Speireata4]

In the German language it is made clear by their names that they are the same group of plants. They are named "green cabbage" (kale), "flower cabbage" (cauliflower) and "rose cabbage" (sprouts). So no news for me. ^^

[@ravenwolf7128]

As an avid gardener, I knew the brassicas were all basically the same modified plant and I always say "thank you" to all those anonymous breeders of the past when planting food crops. Now if only someone found a way to rid the plants of those little white butterflies....There's a sci show to make--how the cabbage fly spread around the world with our brassica crops. I cover the plants in row cloth, but it can be a pain in the A** to keep them covered as they grow, need weeding, etc. so sometimes the caterpillars ruin the food after all the hard work.

[@juanmanuelb7135]

2:34 is a nice map. Any idea where to get it?

[@starrychloe]

Wow I like them all. Maybe people who don’t like one don’t like the others?

[@cuttwice3905]

0:57 Romanesco is a cauliflower. The structure of the stems in the flower make this obvious. (Yes, I garden and read gardening books for fun.) 1:19 Consider celtuce and say that again.

[@csweezey18]

I just looked up "celtuce," but now I have a question. WHY DOES THAT EXIST!?!?

[@cuttwice3905]

@@csweezey18 Because the stems are delicious and the leaves are ideal for making court bouillon.

[@playc.holder6432]

Wow; the scale actually tops at broccoli and ends with cauliflower with potatoes (tied for kale in modern times) as best vegetables. Crazy it’s all in the family.

[@hayleytovey8500]

Somehow I forgot that brussels sprouts grow on a stem 🤣

[@hamsterama]

You're not the only one. I didn't even know brussel sprouts grew on a stem until I saw a display of them, still on the stalk, at a grocery store.

[@MrFlerovium]

Dont forget mustard und canola! :D