• @[email protected]
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    14211 months ago

    Monks did most of the writing and artwork.

    Monks main diet was brassicas.

    They grew their own food.

    Do the math, it’s wish fulfillment

    • @Eheran
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      4811 months ago

      Brassica, it is ALWAY brassica.

      • @[email protected]
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        1311 months ago

        Mate, when a full monastery is blowing the covers off every night to the sound of foghorns i care little for correct plurality

        • @[email protected]
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          2911 months ago

          I read their response not as “The correct plural is brassica”, but as “Friggin’ everything is a brassica cultivar”.

          If you didn’t know: cabbage, kale, broccoli, kohlrabi, brussels sprouts, collard greens and cauliflower are all selectively bred cultivars of the same species.

          • @Eheran
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            311 months ago

            You are correct. Not sure why he felt so attacked.

    • @[email protected]
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      2211 months ago

      I think you’re really on to something here, if you don’t work in history or something, you should run this by a historian or scholar and see what they think

      • @Got_Bent
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        1811 months ago

        Monty Python makes so much more sense now

    • @weariedfae
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      1311 months ago

      This makes so much sense, is there any evidence? I don’t want to spread the rumor as a fun fact unless there’s something behind it. Very fun idea!

    • @[email protected]
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      511 months ago

      That’s my guess too. Snail plague there heart to be evidence of it somewhere. Also when did escargot become popular?