https://xkcd.com/2827

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Sequoia Brussels sprouts are delicious but it’s pretty hard to finish one.

  • snowe@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    This is especially funny to me because I tell people all the time about kale being a man made (cultivated) plant from the wild mustard seed.

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      1 year ago

      I usually ask people to name a food stuff that hasn’t been genetically manipulated in some way by human hands. You can’t. There really are none. Even non-gmo food stuffs are still selectively bred or clonal species.

      • Whelks_chance@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        Blackberries have grown wild in Europe for thousands of years. The US ones have been messed with by farmers and scientists, but in the UK they’re pretty much the original deal.

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          Yeah I was thinking about this recently. Wild blackberries you see all over the place growing like a weed are pretty much the exact same as the ones you see in a shop.

          It’s nothing like, say, apples, which have been changed a lot by humans.

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        1 year ago

        Fish.

        Also macadamias, and lillipilli. And the cabbage tree palm. Warrigal Greens.

        Coconuts, I expect.

        I am yet to believe the humble blackberry is a cultivar.

        Possibly kangaroo meat? Boomers such as the Eastern Grey are pretty unmanipulated, and taste like venison.

        But mostly fish. And lobsters/crays/crabs.

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      1 year ago

      Is it not the case that kale, broccoli, cauliflower and cabbage are all basically derived from the same plant?

      This is what I’ve been told, but I am very ignorant of such matters and while you will say that I can simply Google the issue, which is true, it’s never been enough of a priority for me to do so, goddammit.

      As for Sequoia sempervirens or Sequoiadendron giganteum being forms of broccoli, I do in fact know enough dendrology to know that it’s bullshyte.

    • ReveredOxygen@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      In this case, it’s not really on OP; that’s what Randall puts in the xkcd alt text. There is a transcription for each comic on explainxkcd that ppl could copy to the post though

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      1 year ago

      Regardless of the other comment, you’re right, the alt text is wrong. Alt text is used by visually impaired users to understand what the image is about and is not the place to put the title of the XKCD.

      • agnomeunknown@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        It’s not the title, but rather a sort of “bonus joke” that pops up when you hover a cursor over the image (or long press on mobile I think). It’s a staple of xkcd and other webcomics, but I’ll grant that it does present some confusion for those who rely on alt text.

        I for one appreciated that being in the post so I didn’t need to click thru for the bonus joke as I usually would. Perhaps it’s just better to call it something other than alt text.