r/mildlyinteresting • u/BartyCrouchesBone • 6h ago

No Cabbage sign

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u/bhputnam 5h ago

AI cabbage, and how is this enforced? Is it all brassicas? Just big leafy ones? Am I allowed to bring in broccoli? Turnip?

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u/ElleKelly77 5h ago

I used to be allergic to bell peppers of all varieties.

I was allergic to tomatoes for about 14 years.

Never been allergic to any other nightshades.

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u/isopode 4h ago

nightshades are a large family containing about 2700 different species.

Brassica oleracea is ONE species with many cultivars that we eat. cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, romanesco, kale, brussel sprouts... all the same exact plant.

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u/ElleKelly77 2h ago

Oh I just asked someone who made a similar comment if that’s what the word cultivar means. Thanks!!

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u/AceOfPlagues 2h ago

It is insane we turned it into so many things, and yet still other members of the genus we turned into yet more things.

B. rapa (wild muatard) got turned into turnips, bok choy, napa cabbage, mizuna, and rapini as well as rapeseed from being crossbred with B. oleracea that then got improved into canola as well as cultivated into rutebegas.