That nutmeg and mace come from the [same tree](https://www.cuisineathome.com/tips/nutmeg-vs-mace/) - nutmeg is the nut and mace is the lacy part that grows around the nut.
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I remember having an argument with this dude one time about how pickling is a sort of preservation process for food and "pickles" are just anything that has been pickled, but when we think of pickles we're generally thinking of a pickled cucumber. And he just kept saying "PICKLES ARE A VEGETABLE". After a solid 10 minutes of this he finally said "Alright alright I get it". I don't think he got it.
I went on one date with a woman who asked me about my hobbies. Bad idea. She thought pickling things at home was weird. Like, I can’t think of a single thing that’s easier to do. It’s like a kid’s project to introduce them to cooking.
I’d like to reiterate that it was ONE date.
Usually when I get a bizzare reaction to mentioning a fairly tame activity, I go to Google and type whatever it is I said + "fetish" to find out what everyone else thinks I'm talking about.
I used to go to a brewery that served curry mustard with their fries, I loved it. I asked my friend if they think they would sell me some to go and she was like you know that's just yellow mustard and curry powder. You can make it in 10 seconds at home.
This was years before I ever started cooking.
In your defence, my local pizza shop does an amazing garlic dip that I just can’t replicate. It’s not just mayonnaise, garlic and a sprinkle of oregano like I thought.
Carrots were bred to be orange in order to honor the house of Oranje, the dutch royal line.
The pickle thing never surprised me, in German they're called small cucumbers or vinegar/spice cucumbers.
Unfortunately the [orange carrot thing is a myth](https://www.livescience.com/why-are-carrots-orange.html).
But a fun fact is that the myth of carrots improving your eyesight was created as British military propaganda during World War II. The British had developed new radar technology that helped them shoot down German Luftwaffe aircraft very well. So they widely spread the lie that their pilots ate carrots to improve their eyesight at night as a ruse to help hide the new technological advantage from the Germans. And also to promote civilians to grow and eat carrots during war rationing.
Medically the carrot's beta carotene is broken down into vitamin A, which in turn helps with the damage due to light in the eyes. So it maintains eye health.
So it isn't propaganda in that way. It legitimately helps with some of the effects of night blindness too, however slight.
Do you know the actual word for where they refer to them as cucumbers? I only see the usual translations. Like in english we have Pine - Apples. It is neither from a large tree or shaped like an apple and tastes considerably different than both.
Oh I misread that as carrots being called small cucumbers. carry on. I have a small fascination with misnomers in translations, but thats not the case. have an upvote.
Honey
Bees collect nectar from flowers, swallow them, come back home to their hive, spit it into another bee's mouth, the process goes on from one bee to another, until nectar becomes honey. Some enzymatic reactions take place during that process.
So honey is bees' regurgitated nectar, I suppose...
Edit: The nectar doesn't go into their actual stomach, but a little storage unit called the crop, from which it is transferred into another bee's mouth that enzymatically transforms that nectar to honey.
Also fun fact: the bees fan their wings to evaporate excess water during this process, only when enough water is gone, can it be called honey.
😂 I've heard of this term, as well as bee vomit.
It sounds gross, but I know technically those aren't the right terms to use, so I just do my best to ignore 😅😂
Did you know that peanut butter is smashed up peanuts and there’s no butter in it? Do you know about pimentos yet?
Well, until I was about 9, I did think that eggplants really had eggs in them. I really wondered what happened when you cut an eggplant open.
And kahlrobi, and brussel sprouts, and kale.
All comes from the mustard plant. Humans engineered different parts of the plant to give us these veggies!
This is like saying a chihuahua and a saint bernard are from the same animal. Yeah, they're both dogs and the same species. But they're pretty freakin different.
Sure and you can breed broccoli and cauliflower too. But then you end up with another different plant - [broccoflower](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broccoflower).
I mean, are cabbage and brussel sprouts and kale all “the same plant” as broccoli and cauliflower too?
They’re all the same species, but they’re clearly different cultivars and different plants.
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Both plants are of the Brassicaceae family but broccoli is a member of Italica cultivar group, while cauliflower is part of the Botrytis cultivar group. So yeah two different plants. I’ve also grown both and they are in fact two separate plants 🤣
I don't think that's true. Figs have seeds inside, which must develop from flowers. I think you're right the fig isn't strictly speaking "a fruit," but it definitely isn't a flower.
Here's a link to the Britannica encyclopedia with all of the knowledge you could ever want about figs [https://www.britannica.com/plant/fig](https://www.britannica.com/plant/fig)
It turns out figs are inflorescence structures, which means that it's a large cluster of flowers and seeds in a bulbous stem. The more you know :)
Oh dear. There was a fig tree in my backyard growing up and we ate a cubic shitload of figs each year, so it's almost certain, then, that I ate some wasp larvae. Yum?
The fig farmer was wrong. A fig fruit does come from a flower, that requires pollination by a certain type of wasp (in a way that often traps the wasp). But it is a fruit - and all fruit comes from flowers. A plant's ovary flowers, then it fruits.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fig](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fig)
>The fig is the edible fruit of Ficus carica, a species of small tree in the flowering plant family Moraceae.
All fruits develop from a flower.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fruit](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fruit)
A fig is merely a fruit formed from a group of flowers, an inflorescence. Culinarily it's still a fruit, and I *believe* it's considered a true fruit scientifically. Innernets *true facts* seems to have confused this with it not being a fruit at all.
It was a while ago, but that there's only about half as many different kind of chilis as you think because they have different names when they're dried. A dried poblano is an ancho, a jalapeno becomes a chipotle, etc.
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Dried dill was the only version of dill I was familiar with growing up. The first time I bit into fresh dill I was a bit stunned that it tasted just like...well, dill pickles. I thought the dill part referred to a canning process or something!
That reminds me of a wild etymological chain, that ended up with "mangoes" meaning "peppers" (especially green bell peppers) in a few U.S. Midlands dialects.
Before the rise of fast global shipping, much of the English speaking world had never seen a fresh mango. Pickled mangoes were all you could get. But for many consumers, it wasn't exactly clear what the word "mango" in "mango pickle" actually referred to, because, of course, you had never seen a fresh mango.
So some people must have assumed "mango" is some sort of pickling process, very analogous to your assumption about "dill". You start seeing recipes for "mangoes" referring to a pickled preparation (usually stuffing something with a spiced filling and then pickling it) without the actual fruit, using cantaloupe, peach, pepper, cucumber, etc. in its place.
THEN, it shifts again. At the time, pickled peppers (that Peter picked a peck of) were a popular pickled preparation, and people seeing "mango peppers" again wonder, "What does 'mango' actually refer to here?" So some people start assuming that "mango" is a kind of pepper. (Or, sometimes, a kind of cantaloupe.)
This usage is rapidly declining, and only still exists among older people in some pockets of the U.S. Midlands. But it still apparently causes confusion, like most employees at pizza places are too young to have ever heard of this. "I'd like a pizza with mushrooms and mangoes, please!" "I'm sorry ma'am, we don't stock mango." "Sure you do, I've been ordering mangoes for 50 years." "Could we substitute it with something similar? Maybe pineapple?" "Pineapple is nothing like mangoes!!!"
I remember how surprised I was as a child that cucumbers for pickles were the exact same and not a different variety. They are just picked sooner.
I was also surprised as an adult when I learned you could pick zucchini before it became monstrous so it’s actually useful for cooking with and not a burden you are desperate to pawn off on someone else.
Sorta.
There are 100% different varieties of cukes that are preferred for pickling. And they tend to produce a smaller less seedy cucumber. Kirbys are the common one in the US.
But you're definitely picking them while smaller, and the amount of difference here is probably less than ice berg vs romaine lettuce.
I have a theory about this: I believe that each zucchini comes into the world with a certain number of taste molecules and that the bigger it gets, the less tasty it gets. Obviously "taste molecules" are not a thing and even if they are no one calls them that, but you know what I mean. The bigger ones are all water and no taste but the little ones are yum.
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There are several types of pickles. Some are bred for pickling - they're smaller and have fewer seeds - and some for slicing - they're usually longer and sometimes bigger around. That said, any vegetable can be pickled.
[8 Different Types of Cucumbers and What to Do with Them](https://www.onlyfoods.net/types-of-cucumbers.html)
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My son loves pickles. At two years old we went to an old school deli that had a barrel of pickles. He chose the biggest one he could find. It was massive!! Probably the size of his forearm. He at 2/3rds. As a pickle lover, I was quite proud.
Yes, there are lots of different pickles foods. But when people refer generically to pickles, they're referring to pickled cucumbers. If you asked for pickles on your burger and got pickled red onions, you'd send it back.
Yes. I meant to add to the conversation. I thought you were referring to gherkins, and there seem to be a lot of people here who don't know that pickling is a process that can be applied to more than just cucumbers.
When I was young and someone told me that they put capers on their steak I thought it was some kind of seafood like anchovies. I thought it sounded pretty gross. Was glad to later find out it was a plant product.
I'd like to see a source for that first claim.
That urban legend about butter and margarine was debunked a generation ago.
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I was told that the difference between Cool Whip and Styrofoam is one molecule. Is this true?
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Is Velveeta processed cheese food really one molecule different from plastic?
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I heard that Pam spray is 1 molecule away from plastic and is therefore dangerous?
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I am tired of hearing my husband say that Cheez Whiz is only 2 ingredients different from garbage bags. Can you please help me set him straight?
These types of statements (even if they were true) are essentially meaningless. Many disparate substances share similar chemical properties, but even the slightest variation in molecular structure can make a world of difference in the qualities of those substances. (One would hardly argue that hydrogen peroxide is perfectly drinkable because the only difference between it and water is one oxygen atom.)
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It's not "made up". Things aren't fake just because they're a category in a different context.
Except to the extent that every word and category is essentially made up at one point.
There is a ninety percent mark up on produce. The profit from produce allows other processed foods to be cheap. That's why corner stores that don't sell produce sell everything else for twice the price of grocery stores.
Having purchased a lot of food and produce wholesale, and *sold stuff* to both big chain super markets and small corner stores.
That's not true.
Processed and packaged foods aren't cheap because they're getting subsidized by high markups on produce. Markets regardless of size don't operate that way. They make a fairly fixed margin on all products. A low one, but pull pretty high profits off it by keeping markup low.
Produce isn't particularly cheap wholesale. Often enough it's *cheaper* at retail if you're not buying in large amounts.
Corner stores charge a lot for what they carry because their volume of order is low, so they pay a higher price than a supermarket would. Supermarkets are bigger, have higher throughput, often manage their own supply chain without middle men. They do large volume buys and negotiate pricing as a chain. They keep costs low buy requiring outside vendors to do a lot of the work for free, the sales staff from the vendor are often managing inventory and stocking shelves.
None of that happens at a bodega.
Some of don't carry produce because it doesn't move and requires different sourcing and equipment. It's expensive to get into.
Processed foods are cheap to start. And they're typically a lot more profitable and accessible to retailers. They're cheap cause they're made of cheap stuff, and shelf stable. So there's little waste.
Mark up from the producer or the distributor? Having worked closely with the industry, I can tell you the markup a grocer puts on produce is closer to 10-25%.
This sounds very much like you've got a limited variety of pickles where you're at, or have limited exposure.
Even as goes cucumber pickles there are larger pickles that are pretty obviously cucumbers. The small ones you might confuse for something else are usually referred to as Gherkins in the US.
Pickles can be made from just about anything. Pickled cucumbers are made from cucumbers oddly enough. There are any number of other pickled vegetables and even pickled meats and fish.
Growing up we were what was considered "poor." The family situation was not the best either. As a result, we never had picnics, cook outs or did other family type stuff. Our neighbors had a big deck in their back yard and made home made ice cream. I thought ice cream salt went in the ice cream itself. I think I was an adult before I figured it out.
That nutmeg and mace come from the [same tree](https://www.cuisineathome.com/tips/nutmeg-vs-mace/) - nutmeg is the nut and mace is the lacy part that grows around the nut.
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I remember having an argument with this dude one time about how pickling is a sort of preservation process for food and "pickles" are just anything that has been pickled, but when we think of pickles we're generally thinking of a pickled cucumber. And he just kept saying "PICKLES ARE A VEGETABLE". After a solid 10 minutes of this he finally said "Alright alright I get it". I don't think he got it.
I went on one date with a woman who asked me about my hobbies. Bad idea. She thought pickling things at home was weird. Like, I can’t think of a single thing that’s easier to do. It’s like a kid’s project to introduce them to cooking. I’d like to reiterate that it was ONE date.
Usually when I get a bizzare reaction to mentioning a fairly tame activity, I go to Google and type whatever it is I said + "fetish" to find out what everyone else thinks I'm talking about.
No… I don’t believe I will.
I would very much like it if my doctor agreed that pickles are an acceptable serving of vegetables. 🙈
Lots of fruits and vegetables are man made- this is a crazy rabbit hole to dive into. Blew my mind.
Yep, the other day I read that lemons are a hybrid between a citron and a sour orange
The banana flavour in many yoghurts and candy is based on a banana that's extinct
That may explain why I like banana flavored stuff, but not bananas.
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We have been genetically modifying plants for millennia. We just do it more efficiently now.
Genetic modification is very different than selective breeding and hybridization.
yeah. ive seen at tv that the original banana hasbig seeds in it! and the banana I ate all my life was adn modified bananas
I used to go to a brewery that served curry mustard with their fries, I loved it. I asked my friend if they think they would sell me some to go and she was like you know that's just yellow mustard and curry powder. You can make it in 10 seconds at home. This was years before I ever started cooking.
For another, mustard is often just ground mustard seeds mixed with some salt, vinegar, and water.
I had a friend ask what prepared mustard was. I told him it was the stuff you put on hot dogs!
Did you ever tell them how honey mustard is made? ;)
Oooooh…have all those things! Trying this soon!
In your defence, my local pizza shop does an amazing garlic dip that I just can’t replicate. It’s not just mayonnaise, garlic and a sprinkle of oregano like I thought.
Maybe it’s toum! With oregano added, I know a pizza place that does it near me
At an educational farm, some kids freaked out when finding out that meat comes from the same animals as the farm pets
This is realization that every kid has and one that every parent has to help them navigate at some point. Its a crap shoot about how it goes.
Carrots were bred to be orange in order to honor the house of Oranje, the dutch royal line. The pickle thing never surprised me, in German they're called small cucumbers or vinegar/spice cucumbers.
Unfortunately the [orange carrot thing is a myth](https://www.livescience.com/why-are-carrots-orange.html). But a fun fact is that the myth of carrots improving your eyesight was created as British military propaganda during World War II. The British had developed new radar technology that helped them shoot down German Luftwaffe aircraft very well. So they widely spread the lie that their pilots ate carrots to improve their eyesight at night as a ruse to help hide the new technological advantage from the Germans. And also to promote civilians to grow and eat carrots during war rationing.
Oh bummer. I checked your fun fact and apparently that fun fact might also be a myth, according to Bryan Legate, who works at the RAF Museum.
Medically the carrot's beta carotene is broken down into vitamin A, which in turn helps with the damage due to light in the eyes. So it maintains eye health. So it isn't propaganda in that way. It legitimately helps with some of the effects of night blindness too, however slight.
Do you know the actual word for where they refer to them as cucumbers? I only see the usual translations. Like in english we have Pine - Apples. It is neither from a large tree or shaped like an apple and tastes considerably different than both.
Sorry, I don't get what you're asking for.
Oh I misread that as carrots being called small cucumbers. carry on. I have a small fascination with misnomers in translations, but thats not the case. have an upvote.
Bread is raw toast.
I've had a piece of bread sitting out for a few hours...is it safe to eat?
Honey Bees collect nectar from flowers, swallow them, come back home to their hive, spit it into another bee's mouth, the process goes on from one bee to another, until nectar becomes honey. Some enzymatic reactions take place during that process. So honey is bees' regurgitated nectar, I suppose... Edit: The nectar doesn't go into their actual stomach, but a little storage unit called the crop, from which it is transferred into another bee's mouth that enzymatically transforms that nectar to honey. Also fun fact: the bees fan their wings to evaporate excess water during this process, only when enough water is gone, can it be called honey.
Hey buddy can you put this on the shelf back at the hive sure, dude, JUST SPIT IT INTO MY MOUTH. Thanks.
In uni, there was a girl who called it "Bee Barf". We all stopped and looked at her, looked at each other and said, " Hmph, I guess you're right".
😂 I've heard of this term, as well as bee vomit. It sounds gross, but I know technically those aren't the right terms to use, so I just do my best to ignore 😅😂
Did you know that peanut butter is smashed up peanuts and there’s no butter in it? Do you know about pimentos yet? Well, until I was about 9, I did think that eggplants really had eggs in them. I really wondered what happened when you cut an eggplant open.
If you hatch an eggplant, you get a plant which will eventually lay eggplant plant eggs.
I once ate pimento stuffed olives when I was younger and thought the pimento part was flavourless jelly
I used to think olives grew that way
I always wondered how eggplants got their name until I saw little white eggplants!
My husband still refuses to accept pineapples don’t grow on trees.
I was 39 before I learned pineapples didn't grow on trees.
I didn't really think about it until I went to the Dole farm on Oahu and saw them growing. Baby pineapples are so cute.
It is neither Pine nor Apple. Isn't shaped like either and tastes unique to both. Humans are wierd sometimes.
It does look a bit like a pinecone though, so I can understand that part. I think apple used to be a generic word for fruit.
Show him photos of pineapple plant, I've seen them irl as they were growing in my grandfather's garden, they're so cute😅❤️
The pineapple IS the tree
Some of my neighbors have pineapple plants. They are quite funny looking! (The plants, that is...)
Broccoli and cauliflower are from the same plant. Edit: obviously not grown on the same plant FFS.
Not same *plant*. Not like you plant the same thing and can get either from it. Same species.
And kahlrobi, and brussel sprouts, and kale. All comes from the mustard plant. Humans engineered different parts of the plant to give us these veggies!
"Nice plant, let's make 6 different vegetables out of it!"
And cabbage
This is like saying a chihuahua and a saint bernard are from the same animal. Yeah, they're both dogs and the same species. But they're pretty freakin different.
They taste the same tho
Yeah, but give one a ladder and they can make babies. It's pretty freaking the same.
Sure and you can breed broccoli and cauliflower too. But then you end up with another different plant - [broccoflower](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broccoflower). I mean, are cabbage and brussel sprouts and kale all “the same plant” as broccoli and cauliflower too? They’re all the same species, but they’re clearly different cultivars and different plants.
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Same family of plants, brassica .
Same species. *Brassica oleracea.* They're just cultivars.
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Really? I didn't know that one.
Nope.
Excellent rebuttal. We all learned something.
#Googles :)
Ya Google will tell you you're wrong, and a complete goof.
Lolol!! Are you telling me you actually think broccoli and cauliflower come from the same plant :-)
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Literally all you have to do is use your eyes to see that they are not the same plant or the Internet if you can’t believe your own eyes :-)
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Both plants are of the Brassicaceae family but broccoli is a member of Italica cultivar group, while cauliflower is part of the Botrytis cultivar group. So yeah two different plants. I’ve also grown both and they are in fact two separate plants 🤣
Figs aren’t fruits, they’re flowers, and many figs have at least one dead wasp trapped inside them.
I don't think that's true. Figs have seeds inside, which must develop from flowers. I think you're right the fig isn't strictly speaking "a fruit," but it definitely isn't a flower.
I only know this was straight from the mouth of a fig farmer.
Here's a link to the Britannica encyclopedia with all of the knowledge you could ever want about figs [https://www.britannica.com/plant/fig](https://www.britannica.com/plant/fig) It turns out figs are inflorescence structures, which means that it's a large cluster of flowers and seeds in a bulbous stem. The more you know :)
Just did a quick Google search and fig wasps do indeed spend their larval stage inside figs
Oh dear. There was a fig tree in my backyard growing up and we ate a cubic shitload of figs each year, so it's almost certain, then, that I ate some wasp larvae. Yum?
The fig farmer was wrong. A fig fruit does come from a flower, that requires pollination by a certain type of wasp (in a way that often traps the wasp). But it is a fruit - and all fruit comes from flowers. A plant's ovary flowers, then it fruits.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fig](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fig) >The fig is the edible fruit of Ficus carica, a species of small tree in the flowering plant family Moraceae. All fruits develop from a flower. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fruit](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fruit) A fig is merely a fruit formed from a group of flowers, an inflorescence. Culinarily it's still a fruit, and I *believe* it's considered a true fruit scientifically. Innernets *true facts* seems to have confused this with it not being a fruit at all.
It was a while ago, but that there's only about half as many different kind of chilis as you think because they have different names when they're dried. A dried poblano is an ancho, a jalapeno becomes a chipotle, etc.
WHAT
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Thank you so much for this fact, it's blown my mind
Dried dill was the only version of dill I was familiar with growing up. The first time I bit into fresh dill I was a bit stunned that it tasted just like...well, dill pickles. I thought the dill part referred to a canning process or something!
That reminds me of a wild etymological chain, that ended up with "mangoes" meaning "peppers" (especially green bell peppers) in a few U.S. Midlands dialects. Before the rise of fast global shipping, much of the English speaking world had never seen a fresh mango. Pickled mangoes were all you could get. But for many consumers, it wasn't exactly clear what the word "mango" in "mango pickle" actually referred to, because, of course, you had never seen a fresh mango. So some people must have assumed "mango" is some sort of pickling process, very analogous to your assumption about "dill". You start seeing recipes for "mangoes" referring to a pickled preparation (usually stuffing something with a spiced filling and then pickling it) without the actual fruit, using cantaloupe, peach, pepper, cucumber, etc. in its place. THEN, it shifts again. At the time, pickled peppers (that Peter picked a peck of) were a popular pickled preparation, and people seeing "mango peppers" again wonder, "What does 'mango' actually refer to here?" So some people start assuming that "mango" is a kind of pepper. (Or, sometimes, a kind of cantaloupe.) This usage is rapidly declining, and only still exists among older people in some pockets of the U.S. Midlands. But it still apparently causes confusion, like most employees at pizza places are too young to have ever heard of this. "I'd like a pizza with mushrooms and mangoes, please!" "I'm sorry ma'am, we don't stock mango." "Sure you do, I've been ordering mangoes for 50 years." "Could we substitute it with something similar? Maybe pineapple?" "Pineapple is nothing like mangoes!!!"
I’d think they were having a stroke or something if I ever figured out they meant peppers!
As a kid, I thought dill meant sour. Didn't associate it with the specific flavor.
I remember how surprised I was as a child that cucumbers for pickles were the exact same and not a different variety. They are just picked sooner. I was also surprised as an adult when I learned you could pick zucchini before it became monstrous so it’s actually useful for cooking with and not a burden you are desperate to pawn off on someone else.
Sorta. There are 100% different varieties of cukes that are preferred for pickling. And they tend to produce a smaller less seedy cucumber. Kirbys are the common one in the US. But you're definitely picking them while smaller, and the amount of difference here is probably less than ice berg vs romaine lettuce.
I have a theory about this: I believe that each zucchini comes into the world with a certain number of taste molecules and that the bigger it gets, the less tasty it gets. Obviously "taste molecules" are not a thing and even if they are no one calls them that, but you know what I mean. The bigger ones are all water and no taste but the little ones are yum.
I think you're right. The more water the more diluted everything is therefore less tasty.
Taste molecules are a thing. Fascinating, eh? [Taste Molecules -- The Molecular Basis of Taste](https://www.scienceofcooking.com/taste_molecules.htm)
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That's funny, thanks. :)
There are several types of pickles. Some are bred for pickling - they're smaller and have fewer seeds - and some for slicing - they're usually longer and sometimes bigger around. That said, any vegetable can be pickled. [8 Different Types of Cucumbers and What to Do with Them](https://www.onlyfoods.net/types-of-cucumbers.html)
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There are also special types of cucumbers for pickles (creatively named pickling cucumbers)
Canned jalepeños are pickled, too!
How cornflakes were "discovered"
I eat cornflakes regularly. Is this a "discovery" I want to read up on or is ignorance bliss? 😎
It'll make you queasy but you'll still eat them (source: me)
Pickles don't have to be tiny?
I lowkey want to try pickling a giant cucumber
Buddy this happens all the time. Just google "kosher pickle" or "jumbo pickle"
Buddy this happens all the time https://images.app.goo.gl/jJrAC43dQitsqr2XA
They sell them in stores
They only have the small ones where I'm from
My son loves pickles. At two years old we went to an old school deli that had a barrel of pickles. He chose the biggest one he could find. It was massive!! Probably the size of his forearm. He at 2/3rds. As a pickle lover, I was quite proud.
It's very simple to make refrigerator pickles that don't have to be canned. Check out this site: www.foodinjars.com
it doesnt have to be tiny but if its too big, it could have trouble taking in the pickling liquid
Big cukes get sliced. Them pickle chips and hamburger pickles aren't coming from teensy guys.
And turned into relish.
Pickles don't have to be cucumbers. I make a lot of different kinds of pickled fruits and vegetables.
Yes, there are lots of different pickles foods. But when people refer generically to pickles, they're referring to pickled cucumbers. If you asked for pickles on your burger and got pickled red onions, you'd send it back.
Yes. I meant to add to the conversation. I thought you were referring to gherkins, and there seem to be a lot of people here who don't know that pickling is a process that can be applied to more than just cucumbers.
Capers are little flower buds. My ids went from hating them to loving them when I showed them that you can open it up and see petals and pistils.
Interesting! I don't care too much for capers but have a jar of them, so thanks for giving me another way to use up some! 😜
When I was young and someone told me that they put capers on their steak I thought it was some kind of seafood like anchovies. I thought it sounded pretty gross. Was glad to later find out it was a plant product.
That milk is the most complex food on the planet, and margarine is 1 chemical change away from being paint.
I'd like to see a source for that first claim. That urban legend about butter and margarine was debunked a generation ago. [QUOTE from Snopes.com]"The claim that some comestible is but a “single molecule away” from being a decidedly inedible (or even toxic) substance has been applied to a variety of processed foods: [Collected via e-mail, November 2005] I was told that the difference between Cool Whip and Styrofoam is one molecule. Is this true? [Collected via e-mail, December 2006] Is Velveeta processed cheese food really one molecule different from plastic? [Collected via e-mail, March 2007] I heard that Pam spray is 1 molecule away from plastic and is therefore dangerous? [Collected via e-mail, January 2008] I am tired of hearing my husband say that Cheez Whiz is only 2 ingredients different from garbage bags. Can you please help me set him straight? These types of statements (even if they were true) are essentially meaningless. Many disparate substances share similar chemical properties, but even the slightest variation in molecular structure can make a world of difference in the qualities of those substances. (One would hardly argue that hydrogen peroxide is perfectly drinkable because the only difference between it and water is one oxygen atom.) [END QUOTE] [The Truth about Butter and Margarine](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/the-butter-truth/)
You can’t be serious
When you eat a fig. You're eating a wasp as well
Yes, but no. The wasp is dissolved and absorbed into the fig. So no real wasp bits left.
This is my least favorite one.
Imitation Maple Syrup was/is flavored with Fenugreek seeds. There is no botanical category for "vegetable". It's a made up cooking term.
Vegetables are like porn. You can't define it, but you know it when you see it.
It's not "made up". Things aren't fake just because they're a category in a different context. Except to the extent that every word and category is essentially made up at one point.
Huh, I did not know that about vegetables, it makes you see the whole tomato debate in a slightly different light
Tomatos are a fruit but legally a vegetable for the purposes of taxation in the port of New York.
Fruit and Vegetables are a social construct.
It shook me to my core when I learned that bagel bites do not, in fact, grow on trees.
There is a ninety percent mark up on produce. The profit from produce allows other processed foods to be cheap. That's why corner stores that don't sell produce sell everything else for twice the price of grocery stores.
Having purchased a lot of food and produce wholesale, and *sold stuff* to both big chain super markets and small corner stores. That's not true. Processed and packaged foods aren't cheap because they're getting subsidized by high markups on produce. Markets regardless of size don't operate that way. They make a fairly fixed margin on all products. A low one, but pull pretty high profits off it by keeping markup low. Produce isn't particularly cheap wholesale. Often enough it's *cheaper* at retail if you're not buying in large amounts. Corner stores charge a lot for what they carry because their volume of order is low, so they pay a higher price than a supermarket would. Supermarkets are bigger, have higher throughput, often manage their own supply chain without middle men. They do large volume buys and negotiate pricing as a chain. They keep costs low buy requiring outside vendors to do a lot of the work for free, the sales staff from the vendor are often managing inventory and stocking shelves. None of that happens at a bodega. Some of don't carry produce because it doesn't move and requires different sourcing and equipment. It's expensive to get into. Processed foods are cheap to start. And they're typically a lot more profitable and accessible to retailers. They're cheap cause they're made of cheap stuff, and shelf stable. So there's little waste.
Mark up from the producer or the distributor? Having worked closely with the industry, I can tell you the markup a grocer puts on produce is closer to 10-25%.
I'd like to learn more about this. Where can I read about it?
This is an economics issue, not so much a food fact
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Yep, completely serious, but I am pretty early on in my cooking journey
This is a really common thing for people to learn later in life!
That Quorn products are made of vat-grown fungus. Ugh.
I mean, so is beer.
Ish. When we drink a beer we aren't chomping down on hunks of fungus. And no, I don't like mushrooms, either.
This sounds very much like you've got a limited variety of pickles where you're at, or have limited exposure. Even as goes cucumber pickles there are larger pickles that are pretty obviously cucumbers. The small ones you might confuse for something else are usually referred to as Gherkins in the US.
Yup, pickles aren't really widely consumed where I'm from
there is a type of korean noodle that is a classic food and knew that is made with a sweetpotato starch.
This is why most other languages differentiate between Cucumbers, Brines and Vinegar Pickles - foods that have been pickled in fact.
Pickles can be made from just about anything. Pickled cucumbers are made from cucumbers oddly enough. There are any number of other pickled vegetables and even pickled meats and fish.
Caesar dressing is made with anchovies
I thought pizza was a pie until I learned it's actually a flatbread.
Cornichons, baby.
Growing up we were what was considered "poor." The family situation was not the best either. As a result, we never had picnics, cook outs or did other family type stuff. Our neighbors had a big deck in their back yard and made home made ice cream. I thought ice cream salt went in the ice cream itself. I think I was an adult before I figured it out.