And then there's Brassica oleracea, where it's not even a family, but one single species that brings us a heap of classic veggies including cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, kale, Brussels sprouts, and gai lan. If you expand to its family you can add turnip, bok choy, radish, wasabi, as well as the majority of source vegetables in the eponymous "vegetable oil".

[–] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 16 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Are you saying a vegetable fried this rice?

[–] Frozengyro@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Ah, the old lemm-a-roo

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 2 points 8 months ago

I don't get it.

[–] Damage@slrpnk.net 5 points 8 months ago

And Cavolo Romano!

[–] randint@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

So that's why some vegetables sometimes have that wasabi taste to them.

[–] sagrotan@lemmy.world -1 points 8 months ago

Brussel sprouts? That's not a vegetable, that's heresy! Awful stuff. The rest can be good, depending on the context though.

[–] Kalkaline@lemmy.zip 10 points 8 months ago

Don't forget the brassicas too

[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago

The culinary history of humanity is just one long dare about eating the killer plants.

[–] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

I love all those vegetables but if I had to give up allium or nightshades, I'd give up nightshades.

[–] Denvil@lemmy.one 2 points 8 months ago

I love garlic as much as the next guy, but I don't think I could imagine food without potatoes