My wife just asked one of the most interesting questions I've ever heard...

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We just had a great dinner of chicken, rice and a excellent artichoke. It was one of the best artichokes we've ever had.

Her question was, "who in the world ever looked at that spiky, hard, weird looking plant and decided that was something that we should eat?"

[dweller]

1. Probably the guy

who had just finished a crab, and thought ‘ I need some horny vegetable to finish this with ‘

🤔


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[Walleye]

2. My boyfriend said he really admired the first person that decided to open an oyster and eat it

[bamagal62]

4. Was definitely someone

Who was starving.

[Walleye]

8. And they got a delicious reward for their curiosity. Maybe they watched the seagulls dropping shellfish on the rocks

To break them open

[marble falls]

3. The same guy who got tired of eating snails.

[limbicnuminousity]

5. Has she experienced Kimchi?

Burying something for 30 days and coming back to see if it's edible...how was this discovery arrived at?

[PufPuf23]

6. Commercial artichokes are a product of selective breeding.

Probably the ancestor did not look as awesome but food was scarce and the primeval artichokes were yummy. Butter and Best Foods mayonnaise were invented to make artichokes even more yummy.

[justaprogressive]

7. love artichokes

especially the base of the flower lovely flesh just like the leaves beneath the choke...