For anyone interested, this is how wild asparagus grows:
this post was submitted on 16 Jun 2025
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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.
I think this was a dick joke
It's always a dick joke. Or Loss.
A cock quip
A phallic jape
A penis pun
It was a dick joke.
I don't want an ecosystem in my bush
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!
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
Whoever named those must be descended from the people that named Iceland and Greenland
Parkway was a road that went near park or other scenic spot. Drive ways were drives that connected private estates to a main road. Way back in the day those could actually be long enough the main house was not visible from the main road.
It’s not unique to Americans. A lot of cultures use compound words to describe new things
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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.
Iirc that was because apple was just a generic term for fruit at the time, not any specific type.
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.