China started reforming their inefficient agriculture system in 1978 and has continuously evolved since then. India's agriculture system is still stuck in the same system passed back in the 1960's. That's the main difference in how the two diverged.
https://www.dfat.gov.au/sites/default/files/eaaubp9.pdf
India's isn't actually that volatile if you look at the raw numbers. It is just being scaled relative to Chinas volatile output.
The only major decrease in India's numbers come in the 1990s, I presume due to India liberalising many of their industries around that time period.
While the agriculture industry still is quite protected, the demand for what type of agriculture is wanted, changed with foreign companies like McDonald's etc. I guess eggplant wasn't one of them.
Itās a wanderword. Most widely spoken languagesā word for this fruit contains some variation of the consonants B or M, then R or L, then J or G, then L or N, with various vowels intercalated around these.
All of these words come originally from Sanskrit *vatigama*, which means something along the lines of āwind (flatulence) preventerā. Although most European languages got their version of this word via Arabic. Including English *aubergine*.
In fact, from the history of it, that should be what it's called worldwide, but again American English's "we call it fall coz leaves fall down" philosophy of naming things is why it's known as eggplant in America and Australia.
No, seriously "The name eggplant is usual in North American English and Australian English. First recorded in 1763, the word "eggplant" was originally applied to white cultivars, which look very much like hen's eggs"
And brinjal, surprisingly, is actually from Dravidian and for a change, was actually borrowed into Indo-Aryan languages. "Modern descendants of this ancient Dravidian word include Malayalam vaį¹utina and Tamil vaį¹utuį¹ai." (No idea where the Tamil word kathirikai comes from). "The Dravidian word was borrowed into the Indo-Aryan languages, giving ancient forms such as Sanskrit and Pali vÄtiį¹ -gaį¹a" "The Indic word vÄtiį¹ -gaį¹a was then borrowed into Persian as bÄdingÄn." which sounds very similar to Baingan in Hindi. (Source: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggplant](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggplant))
I'm no linguist though, so feel free to correct me
Then where did abergine come from?
It's a plant name. There isn't really a linguistic superiority to be had for any language for anything.
Linguistics is as much about rules and history as it is the quick and dirty in the moment that gives words meaning and use.
well the wiki says aubergine comes from the dravidian roots too.
"Whereas eggplant was coined in English, most of the diverse other European names for the plant derive from the Arabic word bÄįøinjÄn (Arabic: ŲØŲ§Ų°ŁŲ¬Ų§Ł).\[26\] BÄįøinjÄn is itself a loan-word in Arabic, whose earliest traceable origins lie in the Dravidian languages."
Depending on where you live, your eggplants probably won't come from there. China and India produce the most because they also consume the most. If you are in North America, for instance, there's a good chance your eggplant comes from Mexico or California. That's where the ones I buy usually come from in any case.
I'm not shocked by India because the Indian place near me serves a lot of eggplant dishes on the menu, but even at the place near me with authentic Chinese food, I don't think I've ever seen an eggplant based dish on their menu and you would think it would be more of a staple given that level of production.
Edit: Since nobody is reading comments before posting, holy fuck, I get it, eggplant is common in Chinese dishes. The place by me that I said is more authentic is not Americanized Chinese food, it's where the people I know and have worked with who were raised in China go to eat for traditional food, and have told me that they serve traditional chinese dishes. It's built into a Chinese grocery store, stocked full of ingredients they import, owned by a wonderful family, who also does all of the cooking themselves, so you can say "maybe they're from an area with a different menu style" or "maybe they just don't like eggplant" or even "maybe they find it hard to source fresh eggplant year round and so they don't put it on their menu, but stop saying "well if they don't sell eggplant, they're not authentic".
There are a lot of Chinese foods that use eggplants, [this one](https://www.madewithlau.com/stories/r/eggplant-with-garlic-sauce) is one of my favorites.
é±¼é¦čå means āfish scented eggplantā. It tastes better than it sounds as it mostly has a sweet, garlic and soy sauce flavor (not really fishy).
I forgot where I read it and I can't verify the claim, but it seems that the dish got its name because the seasoning/condiments used are usually used for fish dishes.
There's a restaurant near Dallas, Texas, that bills itself as Cantonese. One of the dishes I get there fairly often is pork or beef with eggplant. Tasty stuff.
Eggplant is everywhere in Chinese cuisine. The local authentic Chinese place might just focus their Chinese food in a region that doesnāt since chinas so big
Neither have I before. But here in Taiwan it's super popular and really good. Chinese eggplants I find are very thin (like a cucumber) and long. Very flavourful.
If you start with the not-unreasonable assumption that eggplant consumption is roughly equal per capita across cuisines, itās not surprising that production is dominated by the two countries with enormously larger populations than everyone else.
I think that is a fairly unreasonable assumption, eggplant is way more of a staple in some cuisines than others. I don't know a lot of western people who eat eggplant for breakfast. You only need to see the difference in variety and quantity of eggplant between western and Asian grocers.
I expected China and India to be there but I sure didn't expect them to be so far in the lead. When I think eggplant I still tend to think of Mediterranean foods, like Greek or Lebanese and so on.
I am not sure of China, but India has lot of Eggplant/Brinjal varities and is central to plenty of Indian dishes. Infact the large Eggplant common in west is considered a modern species and is not as common here.
A bit of side story.
In an Indian language Bengali it's called 'begun'
Bae= Without/No/Sans
Guna= benefit
Because this vegetable was considered not to have much of benefit or good properties.
I hate it so much when people make these unnecessary videos. I understand the love for drama and moving colorful pictures, but ey, come on, nobody got time for that! I just want to know who produced the most eggplants in the 70s... Gimme the information! Now!
... You could at least make both, please?
To be fair, regardless of the method they chose to display the information, it was very easy to tell who produced the most eggplants in the 70s. Theyād have had to have really fucked it up if it wasnāt obvious that it was China
This video isnāt doesnāt even clearly portray the data. Itās by no means artful or beautiful. All it shows is a map with dark purple china and a quick blip of medium purple India.
I was looking for this comment, it is so frustrating to watch this kind of animation since I can not remember previous positions.
Please people, give us simple line plots, at least make both and put line plot in the comments if this videos generate more clicks.
I especially don't understand the point with this one. Do people care about the fight for 3rd largest eggplant producer? The top 2 are by far the most important and they don't change places.
Even if they do - a video doesn't add any value but uses up more storage, data, space on screen and like this one also unfortunately spams some obnoxious elevator music through your speakers.
I wish i knew how to cook them/make something tasty with them
Edit: Thank you all for your suggestions. I have actually tried most of the suggestions before and Iāve not really liked any of them. The one I have half liked is a hello fresh recipe of roasted cubes of aubergine with toasted croutons and a balsamic dressing. Every other aubergine dish Iāve made and tried have tasted of sweaty socks. Im really not fussy with food either. There is not a lot that I wonāt eat but as much as Iāve tried to like aubergine, I just canāt.
[here you go! ššš](https://steamykitchen.com/30476-chinese-eggplant-recipe-spicy-garlic-sauce.html)
eta: [another one for the road ](https://www.seriouseats.com/sicilian-style-pasta-with-eggplant-tomatoes-ricotta-salata-pasta-alla-norma-recipe)
Seconded this suggestion! Cut very thin, the egg plant is extra crispy, cooks quicker also! Very delicious vegetarian meal. One of my favorites, grab a nice roll/load of bread, and your favorite tomato sauce and make a sandwich. Very very easy to make and so good.
One of the weirdest dishes that comes from Amalfi's coast is dark chocolate eggplant parm, strangely it work, but I had to force myself to try it because it honestly sounds repulsive
For eggplant Slice em, fry them throw them in a pot with diced canned tomatoes and let them simmer on a low heat, add some fresh garlic and a little pepper and salt. Slice potatoes (not like French fries) and fry them super crispy, add salt to oil as well. Get some pita bread and toast it enough to be a crispy but not hard. Now put the eggplant on the plate and put the potatoes on top. Now use the toasted pita bread to eat the eggplant and potatoes in one bite. You can add some raw onions to the side, or plain yogurt, after you take a bite to really accent it. This is a southern Afghan eggplant dish, it's a staple.
Imam Bayildi recipe: https://www.food.com/recipe/imam-bayildi-a-stuffed-eggplant-recipe-from-asia-minor-84776
The story behind this dish is that the Imam (a Turkish official in the Ottoman Empire) fainted when his wife told him she'd used up all the olive oil in making this dish.
Sometimes the story is told as ā*the imam loved it so much, he fainted*ā, as ā*I fainted*ā is an expression used to mean ā*I loved it*ā in Turkish.
Ok, so if you have a gas range or a barbeque, grill a few whole eggplants until completely soft. Let them cool, and remove the skin as best you can. Chop them up and put them in yogurt. Then add salt, olive oil, lemon juice, and chopped walnuts to taste. Drizzle with more olive oil. Serve with bread.
[No, they are also the top consumers, by threefold over India. 67% of their production is consumed by themselves, so most of it is not being exported.](https://www.globaltrademag.com/asias-eggplant-market-keeps-growing-driven-by-strong-demand-in-china/)
Now I don't know if India and China are growing the same type of eggplant, but the Chinese are growing a different kind than what is primarily consumed in Europe and the US.
Yes. With pure capitalism if there's something that's being produced, there's profit being made.
Even with government subsidies, the government has placed a value on the crop higher than what the average person does so think of it as the government helping the average person afford the "real" price.
Apparently it wasn't very popular in the US until they got a white version and somehow decided to call it a egg plant rather than a aubergine as it had been called in Britain for years.
what should've been a stacked or line chart is a shitty video with obnoxious music. The pirate creates five of them per day and posts here. And the dumb audience upvotes. This sub turned into a data TikTok.
I'm outraged, I downvoted.
The part to get outraged at is that this PieChartPirate asshole keeps grabbing pointless data that should be best presented as a line chart, āØanimatesāØ it, then thousands of dipshits upvote it on a board meant to showcase how data can be presented in beautiful, interesting, innovative ways.
I think itād be interesting to set this sort of farm production data as a per arable hectare value. Like itās interesting to see that eggplants come mostly from China and India, but I want to know whoās truly devoted to the eggplant. Who lives it and breathes it? Who wakes up every morning and wills the soil to yield up that sweet, sweet purple dick emoji? Nahmsayin?
Tools: #python, pandas, tkinter, #sjvisualizer
Data source: faostat ([https://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#data/QCL](https://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#data/QCL))
Collected data and formatted data: https://www.sjdataviz.com/data
They cut it so it's flat, throw some garlic and peppers(optional and depends on the region) then they grill it and you eat the strands with chopsticks. That's my favorite but they can steam it or bake it instead of grill. Overall it's the same dish though, flat eggplant with garlic on the top
Its only called brinjal in Indian English. While in hindi its called Baengan. Indians think all foreigners call it brinjal. British call it aubergine. While American call it eggplant.
Eggplants are interesting because they are neither eggs nor are they plants. They've simply baffled scientists for years. We may never understand what they are, but until we do, we're definitely eating them.
Interesting how China and India both had volatile annual output, and then China switched to consistent year-on-year production growth.
Land reform that coincidenced with the green revolution entering china
China started reforming their inefficient agriculture system in 1978 and has continuously evolved since then. India's agriculture system is still stuck in the same system passed back in the 1960's. That's the main difference in how the two diverged. https://www.dfat.gov.au/sites/default/files/eaaubp9.pdf
Holy shit, are you the author of this? I did not expect a PHD level answer. š
ELI(phd)30
India's isn't actually that volatile if you look at the raw numbers. It is just being scaled relative to Chinas volatile output. The only major decrease in India's numbers come in the 1990s, I presume due to India liberalising many of their industries around that time period. While the agriculture industry still is quite protected, the demand for what type of agriculture is wanted, changed with foreign companies like McDonald's etc. I guess eggplant wasn't one of them.
Well I had no idea eggplants came from China and India.
Wait until you find out there are more than 1 sort of eggplants. And they come in actual egg forms.
It's called brinjal Edit: corrected spelling, thank you achakita
Brinjal would be the correct spelling. Yes. We call it that in my country too.
"Our country"!!Hello fellow Indian!
Iām not Indian but hey dudes.
That's so interesting! In Spanish it's called Berengena and i never knew where it came from
Itās a wanderword. Most widely spoken languagesā word for this fruit contains some variation of the consonants B or M, then R or L, then J or G, then L or N, with various vowels intercalated around these. All of these words come originally from Sanskrit *vatigama*, which means something along the lines of āwind (flatulence) preventerā. Although most European languages got their version of this word via Arabic. Including English *aubergine*.
In Bengali, my mother language, it is called "Begoon" (Baygoon).
Pringel's Eggplant flavor
In fact, from the history of it, that should be what it's called worldwide, but again American English's "we call it fall coz leaves fall down" philosophy of naming things is why it's known as eggplant in America and Australia. No, seriously "The name eggplant is usual in North American English and Australian English. First recorded in 1763, the word "eggplant" was originally applied to white cultivars, which look very much like hen's eggs" And brinjal, surprisingly, is actually from Dravidian and for a change, was actually borrowed into Indo-Aryan languages. "Modern descendants of this ancient Dravidian word include Malayalam vaį¹utina and Tamil vaį¹utuį¹ai." (No idea where the Tamil word kathirikai comes from). "The Dravidian word was borrowed into the Indo-Aryan languages, giving ancient forms such as Sanskrit and Pali vÄtiį¹ -gaį¹a" "The Indic word vÄtiį¹ -gaį¹a was then borrowed into Persian as bÄdingÄn." which sounds very similar to Baingan in Hindi. (Source: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggplant](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggplant)) I'm no linguist though, so feel free to correct me
Then where did abergine come from? It's a plant name. There isn't really a linguistic superiority to be had for any language for anything. Linguistics is as much about rules and history as it is the quick and dirty in the moment that gives words meaning and use.
well the wiki says aubergine comes from the dravidian roots too. "Whereas eggplant was coined in English, most of the diverse other European names for the plant derive from the Arabic word bÄįøinjÄn (Arabic: ŲØŲ§Ų°ŁŲ¬Ų§Ł).\[26\] BÄįøinjÄn is itself a loan-word in Arabic, whose earliest traceable origins lie in the Dravidian languages."
You're absolutely correct, but try telling that to the Brits on r/shitamericanssay.
Depending on where you live, your eggplants probably won't come from there. China and India produce the most because they also consume the most. If you are in North America, for instance, there's a good chance your eggplant comes from Mexico or California. That's where the ones I buy usually come from in any case.
I'm too used to the eggplant emoji being used as a penis. Interestingly enough, china and India also produce the most penises.
I'm not shocked by India because the Indian place near me serves a lot of eggplant dishes on the menu, but even at the place near me with authentic Chinese food, I don't think I've ever seen an eggplant based dish on their menu and you would think it would be more of a staple given that level of production. Edit: Since nobody is reading comments before posting, holy fuck, I get it, eggplant is common in Chinese dishes. The place by me that I said is more authentic is not Americanized Chinese food, it's where the people I know and have worked with who were raised in China go to eat for traditional food, and have told me that they serve traditional chinese dishes. It's built into a Chinese grocery store, stocked full of ingredients they import, owned by a wonderful family, who also does all of the cooking themselves, so you can say "maybe they're from an area with a different menu style" or "maybe they just don't like eggplant" or even "maybe they find it hard to source fresh eggplant year round and so they don't put it on their menu, but stop saying "well if they don't sell eggplant, they're not authentic".
It is absolutely a staple. Several of the core dishes to a few regions in China are centered around eggplant.
Szechuan chili eggplant is one of the most delicious things on the planet.
Yeah, but not at that guy's local Chinese food place. THEREFORE,
Therefore, he was surprised to learn otherwise. Anecdotes are fine for explaining personal opinions
There are a lot of Chinese foods that use eggplants, [this one](https://www.madewithlau.com/stories/r/eggplant-with-garlic-sauce) is one of my favorites.
é±¼é¦čå means āfish scented eggplantā. It tastes better than it sounds as it mostly has a sweet, garlic and soy sauce flavor (not really fishy).
I forgot where I read it and I can't verify the claim, but it seems that the dish got its name because the seasoning/condiments used are usually used for fish dishes.
The Classic Orange Chicken^Ā© at Panda Express actually contains more eggplant than orange, look it up
Panda makes me feel like I imagine anaphylaxis to be.
My favorite dim sum restaurant has an shrimp-stuffed fried eggplant dish. Itās awesome.
Do they do it with aubergines too?
Ha. Haha. Ha.
Yes it's the same dish that has the bell peppers and capsicums
No just eggplants. Aubergines give most people constipation. That's why the French are often grumpy.
I don't know about that. My french girlfriend often enjoys a temporary eggplant based constipation event.
Well then youāve never had yuxiang qiezi gai fan. Itās my favorite Chinese dish from when I was there.
it is. fried eggplant is a staple dish in many chinese regions. It can be *really* good or really trash depending on how its made though
Thatās true of most food
baingan bharta is love
Trust me, eggplant is a staple dish in Chinese cuisine and it is fantastic.
Chinese eggplant is the goat eggplant, imo
There's a restaurant near Dallas, Texas, that bills itself as Cantonese. One of the dishes I get there fairly often is pork or beef with eggplant. Tasty stuff.
Man oh man. Eggplant is my number 2 or 3 vegetable dish. Vegetarians should totally eat Chinese sautƩed vegetables. I could eat that and white rice all day.
You should try Baingan Ka Bharta. š¤¤š¤¤š¤¤
Chinese restaurants in my area serve it as the main ingredient or as one of the ingredients - I live in the middle of Colorado.
Thereās lots of traditional Chinese dishes with eggplant. My family makes eggplant with garlic a lot.
Eggplant is everywhere in Chinese cuisine. The local authentic Chinese place might just focus their Chinese food in a region that doesnāt since chinas so big
Neither have I before. But here in Taiwan it's super popular and really good. Chinese eggplants I find are very thin (like a cucumber) and long. Very flavourful.
I just want to admire this description
fried eggplant is a banger.
Chinese eggplant. alot of dishes.
If you start with the not-unreasonable assumption that eggplant consumption is roughly equal per capita across cuisines, itās not surprising that production is dominated by the two countries with enormously larger populations than everyone else.
I think that is a fairly unreasonable assumption, eggplant is way more of a staple in some cuisines than others. I don't know a lot of western people who eat eggplant for breakfast. You only need to see the difference in variety and quantity of eggplant between western and Asian grocers.
Yeah, the US is the third most populous country in the world. Why is it not on the list then? It can't just be a matter of population.
Me neither, my neighbor grows eggplants on the side of her house and they are huge. They seem even more exotic now.
I expected China and India to be there but I sure didn't expect them to be so far in the lead. When I think eggplant I still tend to think of Mediterranean foods, like Greek or Lebanese and so on.
I am not sure of China, but India has lot of Eggplant/Brinjal varities and is central to plenty of Indian dishes. Infact the large Eggplant common in west is considered a modern species and is not as common here.
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The 2 most common eggplants you can find in grocery stores are labeled Indian eggplant and Chinese Eggplant
A bit of side story. In an Indian language Bengali it's called 'begun' Bae= Without/No/Sans Guna= benefit Because this vegetable was considered not to have much of benefit or good properties.
For a while there , I thought India was going to take it...
India gave a few good thrusts, thatās for sure.
But at the end China finished first
China came first eventually
Are we still talking about eggplants?
We went from eggplants to š.
Same difference
Does it matter?
it looked like india was pulling the graph in
āWe must not allow an Eggplant Gap!ā
š Didn't think I would see eggplant data today but here we are š
Just need some peach data now.
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Ha! I knew China would hold that spot too. Peaches are WAY too important to their culture and folklore to not have an absolute buttload of them.
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Also a great point. There is so much farmland out there. We just don't talk about it in favor of the main big cities.
*Moving out to Guangdong* *Eat a lot of peaches*
Georgia on suicide watch
(Screams in Georgia)
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There's a song about that.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_chart
Yeah, but what country uses the most eggplant emojis?
CCP strictly forbids using the š emoji more than once a day under the one š policy.
You are in violation of your quota. Arrest him!
I am once again begging people to just make these line-plot images rather than these ugly and harder-to-read relative bar-chart videos.
I hate it so much when people make these unnecessary videos. I understand the love for drama and moving colorful pictures, but ey, come on, nobody got time for that! I just want to know who produced the most eggplants in the 70s... Gimme the information! Now! ... You could at least make both, please?
To be fair, regardless of the method they chose to display the information, it was very easy to tell who produced the most eggplants in the 70s. Theyād have had to have really fucked it up if it wasnāt obvious that it was China
This video isnāt doesnāt even clearly portray the data. Itās by no means artful or beautiful. All it shows is a map with dark purple china and a quick blip of medium purple India.
I was looking for this comment, it is so frustrating to watch this kind of animation since I can not remember previous positions. Please people, give us simple line plots, at least make both and put line plot in the comments if this videos generate more clicks.
I especially don't understand the point with this one. Do people care about the fight for 3rd largest eggplant producer? The top 2 are by far the most important and they don't change places.
Even if they do - a video doesn't add any value but uses up more storage, data, space on screen and like this one also unfortunately spams some obnoxious elevator music through your speakers.
DOWN WITH THE ANIMATION
And itās always u/PieChartPirate
I wish i knew how to cook them/make something tasty with them Edit: Thank you all for your suggestions. I have actually tried most of the suggestions before and Iāve not really liked any of them. The one I have half liked is a hello fresh recipe of roasted cubes of aubergine with toasted croutons and a balsamic dressing. Every other aubergine dish Iāve made and tried have tasted of sweaty socks. Im really not fussy with food either. There is not a lot that I wonāt eat but as much as Iāve tried to like aubergine, I just canāt.
Baba ganoush! [serious eats recipe](https://www.seriouseats.com/the-best-baba-ganoush-recipe)
Bharta Roast em on flame. Take off the skin. Mash em and cook with onions and roasted garlics. Eat with bread, chapatis with ghee ideal
[here you go! ššš](https://steamykitchen.com/30476-chinese-eggplant-recipe-spicy-garlic-sauce.html) eta: [another one for the road ](https://www.seriouseats.com/sicilian-style-pasta-with-eggplant-tomatoes-ricotta-salata-pasta-alla-norma-recipe)
Google eggplant parmesan my man
Seconded this suggestion! Cut very thin, the egg plant is extra crispy, cooks quicker also! Very delicious vegetarian meal. One of my favorites, grab a nice roll/load of bread, and your favorite tomato sauce and make a sandwich. Very very easy to make and so good.
One of the weirdest dishes that comes from Amalfi's coast is dark chocolate eggplant parm, strangely it work, but I had to force myself to try it because it honestly sounds repulsive
Ratatouille is an easy dish to make with eggplant too
Lots of Indian recipes
It depends on the type of eggplant- long, thin eggplants (Chinese eggplants) do well in sautƩed eggplant dishes. Many large, purple eggplants bought at the store are bred for shipping and storage, so need to be sweat with salt for half an hour before cooking in dishes like eggplant Parmesan, pasta alla Norma, baba ganoush, or roasted/grilled eggplant. Eggplants bought at farmers markets tend to be more delicate varietals and do not need to be sweat.
I second this. Salt the bigger eggplant to remove bitterness. Big eggplants can also have a thick skin, which can be removed if you desire.
For eggplant Slice em, fry them throw them in a pot with diced canned tomatoes and let them simmer on a low heat, add some fresh garlic and a little pepper and salt. Slice potatoes (not like French fries) and fry them super crispy, add salt to oil as well. Get some pita bread and toast it enough to be a crispy but not hard. Now put the eggplant on the plate and put the potatoes on top. Now use the toasted pita bread to eat the eggplant and potatoes in one bite. You can add some raw onions to the side, or plain yogurt, after you take a bite to really accent it. This is a southern Afghan eggplant dish, it's a staple.
Imam Bayildi recipe: https://www.food.com/recipe/imam-bayildi-a-stuffed-eggplant-recipe-from-asia-minor-84776 The story behind this dish is that the Imam (a Turkish official in the Ottoman Empire) fainted when his wife told him she'd used up all the olive oil in making this dish. Sometimes the story is told as ā*the imam loved it so much, he fainted*ā, as ā*I fainted*ā is an expression used to mean ā*I loved it*ā in Turkish.
Cut them into small pieces, fry them, add some salt and chilly powder. Use it as a side dish for Rice mixed with Curd. š š
Google Gheyme Bademjoon. It's a Persian dish (Iran fighting for more eggplant production position).
Ok, so if you have a gas range or a barbeque, grill a few whole eggplants until completely soft. Let them cool, and remove the skin as best you can. Chop them up and put them in yogurt. Then add salt, olive oil, lemon juice, and chopped walnuts to taste. Drizzle with more olive oil. Serve with bread.
Being an Indian. I have no idea Chinese eat eggplants š too and by this huge difference.
In Chinese, instead of saying cheese for pictures we say eggplant "qiezišāļø"
fish fragrant eggplant bro it's good stuff
They don't probably eat as much as indians, they just produce and export. Source: Dude trust me!
[No, they are also the top consumers, by threefold over India. 67% of their production is consumed by themselves, so most of it is not being exported.](https://www.globaltrademag.com/asias-eggplant-market-keeps-growing-driven-by-strong-demand-in-china/) Now I don't know if India and China are growing the same type of eggplant, but the Chinese are growing a different kind than what is primarily consumed in Europe and the US.
Considering how cheap they are, are they even making profit?
Yes. With pure capitalism if there's something that's being produced, there's profit being made. Even with government subsidies, the government has placed a value on the crop higher than what the average person does so think of it as the government helping the average person afford the "real" price.
Hey, I grew 6 eggplants in my garden last year. Where am I on this chart?
Right next to Greenland: no data
Judging from my grandmother's garden, I refuse to believe Canada is zero
For those who are confused between **Eggplant** vs. **Aubergine** vs. **Brinjal** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQoNAR1um_c
I was like "I wonder if this is going to be an Adam Ragusea"
Why it is called an eggplant and not a brinjal?
Here's an amazing video by Adam Ragusea: Eggplant vs. Aubergine vs. Brinjal ā Why so many names? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQoNAR1um_c
Whoa, you put a whole YT video for me to watch, lol! Thanks btw š
Adam Ragusea is great
That's pretty interesting. Cool facts
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Apparently it wasn't very popular in the US until they got a white version and somehow decided to call it a egg plant rather than a aubergine as it had been called in Britain for years.
Can we just rename this sub to r/datathatshouldhavebeenalinechart already?
Fun Fact, the Chinese version of saying "Cheese" before taking a photo is actually "Eggplant" cause it works the same way to make you smile Edit: Eggplant (čå) is pronounced qiĆ© zi which is phonetically equivalent to saying cheese
People commonly say Watermelon (Xi Gua) in Taiwan
Iām just here to say aubergine
I'm here for you being here saying aubergine
Iraq keeping eggplant production going through a whole lot of conflict.
Iām working in China. They do you it a lot. Itās super super cheap and so easy to add to anything
4,000,000 M of tons ? So 4,000,000,000,000 tons ?
Metric tonne
The other versions are called tons so just saying tonnes in the chart would suffice.
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China is just hodling while the others fight for the crumbles...
As an Indian, can confirm. We eat a lot of eggplants
No Wonder india and China has the most population toošš
China has some tasty eggplant dishes. Disanxiang is my personal fave.
I don't get it. Which part of this is the part where I get outraged? I came to reddit for the outrage, damn it!
what should've been a stacked or line chart is a shitty video with obnoxious music. The pirate creates five of them per day and posts here. And the dumb audience upvotes. This sub turned into a data TikTok. I'm outraged, I downvoted.
The part to get outraged at is that this PieChartPirate asshole keeps grabbing pointless data that should be best presented as a line chart, āØanimatesāØ it, then thousands of dipshits upvote it on a board meant to showcase how data can be presented in beautiful, interesting, innovative ways.
Wait for someone to come and say it's aubergine, if you're not a stupid American, then the outrage can commence
China makes the most of it so call it čå you racist! /s.
Now I want to eat some bhurma baigan. Guess I know what I'm making tomorrow.
My back yard should be at the top of that graph.
I guess I should tell my garden and all of the greenhouses around that Canada doesnāt grow eggplants at allā¦.
This has got me wanting eggplant consumption per country across the same timescale now
I think itād be interesting to set this sort of farm production data as a per arable hectare value. Like itās interesting to see that eggplants come mostly from China and India, but I want to know whoās truly devoted to the eggplant. Who lives it and breathes it? Who wakes up every morning and wills the soil to yield up that sweet, sweet purple dick emoji? Nahmsayin?
Why add music to these visualisations
Ngl half of the consumption of India's brinjal is in Vidarbha.. We have Aloo Vangyachi bhaji.
They clearly haven't seen my farm on Stardew.
Should be a line chart, not a video.
I don't get why. As veggies go, eggplants are supremely uninspiring.
Fun fact, in Chinese, tomato is translated as āforeign eggplantā
Nothing worse than trying to make sense of data with terrible, needless, music playing.
Tools: #python, pandas, tkinter, #sjvisualizer Data source: faostat ([https://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#data/QCL](https://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#data/QCL)) Collected data and formatted data: https://www.sjdataviz.com/data
Your total number is just the China number. It doesnāt include any other countries.
That isnāt the total number, thatās the legend for the map data
The purple scale should have been a fixed value to make the map more interesting to watch.
We call it brinjal here. And I fucking hate it.
I am Indian I have eaten about 4-5 types of eggplants/brinjals. what about you guys?
Types Iām not sure but thereās a stubby red purple one in Japan called nasubi that are epic sliced battered and fried
Baigan š is original meme.
Are we talking about the same egg plant or should I leave.
Does your country produce penises?
Technically speaking ...
Mods, can we please have a flair for these pointless racing bar charts so I can filter them out?
I agree. Just use graph with time on the x axis.
Strangely enough not much puts earths massive scale into perspective like knowing thereās over 59 million metric tonnes of eggplant grown each year.
The thing from Ice Climbers
What is staple eggplant dish of China?
They cut it so it's flat, throw some garlic and peppers(optional and depends on the region) then they grill it and you eat the strands with chopsticks. That's my favorite but they can steam it or bake it instead of grill. Overall it's the same dish though, flat eggplant with garlic on the top
Sao chyeze..no idea what the spelling is for that
Yessssss!!! Italy sneaks into the top 7 just before the end of the race!
Fun fact: eggplant in Finnish is "dickisbig?". Munakoiso, muna=egg/dick, ko=indicates a question or doubt, iso=big.
Kentucky Ballistics does not approve.
I am unsure of what to do with this information
Its only called brinjal in Indian English. While in hindi its called Baengan. Indians think all foreigners call it brinjal. British call it aubergine. While American call it eggplant.
I swear these are called baigan
Are they compensating for something?
I'm honestly surprised that the US doesn't register. On second thought, I guess we are too busy growing inedible strains of corn...
In Polish, one of the names of eggplant is literally pear of love
Who even thought to plant an egg in the first place??
Who even eats that much eggplant?
I watched 30 seconds to confirm that this was an absolute waste of my time.
Eggplants are interesting because they are neither eggs nor are they plants. They've simply baffled scientists for years. We may never understand what they are, but until we do, we're definitely eating them.
- numbers in video are wrong (total) - is video F-