@PugJesusM to A Comm for HistorymemesEnglish • 17 days ago"I'm glad nature provides for us in such a convenient manner"imagemessage-square10arrow-up1314arrow-down14
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minus-square@PugJesusOPMlinkEnglish50•17 days ago[curious] [checks wiki] Holy shit That’s some quality fucking selective breeding
minus-squareoce 🐆linkfedilinkEnglish28•17 days agoSame thing to pretty much any vegetable/fruit. I think the closest from the wild we eat are forest strawberries and forest mushrooms, everything else is thousands of years of selection to become those gorgeous packs of nutriments.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish10•17 days agoNot cabbage. Nobody would ever think to turn cabbage into anything other than what it naturally is. Absolutely nobody. Especially not the Romans. /uj “Wild” strawberries are probably also not very wild but highly contaminated with cultured strains through cross polination
[curious]
[checks wiki]
Holy shit
That’s some quality fucking selective breeding
Same thing to pretty much any vegetable/fruit. I think the closest from the wild we eat are forest strawberries and forest mushrooms, everything else is thousands of years of selection to become those gorgeous packs of nutriments.
Not cabbage. Nobody would ever think to turn cabbage into anything other than what it naturally is. Absolutely nobody. Especially not the Romans. /uj
“Wild” strawberries are probably also not very wild but highly contaminated with cultured strains through cross polination