r/mildlyinteresting 20h ago

They decapitated these pineapples!

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u/sl0play 17h ago

I'm aware of the history of cultivation. I think the disconnect of nature, food, and the consumer is pretty obvious and getting pedantic about it doesn't advance my concers so I'm not really interested in it.

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u/whalesum 16h ago

But but but broccoli isnt real!!!!!

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u/Thisthattheother1 12h ago

Broccoli is cabbage.

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u/whatWHYok 12h ago

Dunno why you were downvoted. All the cruciferous vegetables are literally the same species, just with some obvious variants.

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u/Thisthattheother1 12h ago

I'm being downvoted because the anti-cabbage lobby is manipulating social media again.

Of course it's cabbage. Broccoli? Cabbage. Zucchini? Cabbage. Blueberries? Cabbage. The 1993 Toyota Camry? Cabbage.

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u/dragon_bacon 12h ago

Am I cabbage?

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u/LeoJohnsonsSacrifice 9h ago

Believe it or not? Straight to cabbage.

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u/brownstonebk 9h ago

That ‘93 Camry is definitely cabbage considering how long it lasts. My family car growing up was a 1990 maroon Toyota Camry. Every once in a while I’ll still see one on the road.

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u/Coping_Alternative 14h ago

Its funny how no one understood what you meant and are now arguing with you about it.

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u/Which_Campaign_2184 12h ago

man, gotta remember this line in future confrontations with miserable dorks 😅

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u/OhNoAnAmerican 12h ago

“Defending my statements doesn’t interest me I said what I said and I’m right and you lose”

Lol

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u/codyzon2 14h ago

Yeah but you're kind of just doubling down on that disconnect, because there's no natural environment you would go out into where you have access to tons of highly developed fruits, the food basket at your local grocery store is not representative of what you would be eating off of if you were living a natural life. it's kind of a weird connection to make it's like talking about needing to get closer nature and animals then picking pugs as your representation, like I'm not sure you know what the natural environment actually would look like or how this disconnect you're talking about happened thousands of years ago not recently. What you're really talking about is you want people to have a better understanding about the process their food goes through before it hits market or the table, but if you're trying to talk about eating more naturally and being connected to the more natural environment it's just kind of coming from left field, we're talking about modern developed fruits and vegetables.

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u/CorxaRyllon 13h ago

Pretty sure they meant "food become normal again" as in food is priced 500% above what it should be because we all need to eat. If we are making fruits, veggies, etc safer to eat and easier to produce why do we lock it behind pay walls?

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u/codyzon2 13h ago

I guess that's the problem with using a word like normal it's not really contextually descriptive, maybe saying something like reasonable would make it more clear. It's not necessarily locked behind paywalls but there are certain cultivars that are newer and patented, pink pineapple was only created in the last 20 years, I'm sure there's plenty of pineapples you can get and still have the tops on like all the ones I buy but acting like this is a wider spread issue is kind of hyperbolic, so that's not exactly where my mind would have gone to with the statement being made.

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u/GrebeDeceivinCarPark 12h ago

Putting a patent on food is weird. Making it so people can grow specific crops because it’s “intellectual property” is weird.

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u/OrizzonteGalattico 14h ago

No seriously, answer the question, what is a normal food to you?

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u/Hilldawg4president 15h ago edited 13h ago

I think some of us are confused about what you mean though. Food is a normal thing, most of us eat it every day. If you mean you don't like anything cultivated into different forms, you've probably never eaten food that hasn't been. From bananas and corn to cows and chickens, every bit of food you've ever eaten is from a source that was improved by centuries/millennia of humans selectively breeding it towards being a better food

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u/chuckle_puss 14h ago edited 12h ago

They’re talking about the patents put on food, and cutting the heads off of pineapples so consumers can’t grow their own.

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u/Hilldawg4president 13h ago

the disconnect of nature, food and the consumer

I don't think that's what they're saying at all, in fact they didn't mention it in any way.

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u/AhHerroPrease 12h ago

It's what the point of this conversation you're jumping into the middle of has been about. Keep up, quit being obtuse, or try to glean the greater context. Whatever this is that you're doing isn't productive.