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Sequoia Brussels sprouts are delicious but it's pretty hard to finish one.
this post was submitted on 23 Sep 2023
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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.
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.
Or wild (smaller) strawberries.
Same with lots of berries, like billberries, currants and raspberry.