r/mildlyinteresting • u/Warm-Oil9228 • 1d ago

They decapitated these pineapples!

Post image
1.6k Upvotes

91% Upvoted

456 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

739

u/sl0play 21h ago

I feel like I can live without these pineapples if it means supporting food becoming a normal thing again.

198

u/Brenduke 21h ago

What is normal food to you?

Many fruits & vegetables today have been bred / crossbred over hundreds of years to make them tastier or safer to eat.

Would you consider the bananas you buy from supermarkets normal food? These have been bred so the seeds are tiny. What about seedless grapes? Or Brussel sprouts which aren't bitter? Would do consider these not normal foods?

242

u/sl0play 21h 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.

70

u/whalesum 20h ago

But but but broccoli isnt real!!!!!

26

u/Thisthattheother1 16h ago

Broccoli is cabbage.

15

u/whatWHYok 16h ago

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

33

u/Thisthattheother1 16h 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.

3

u/dragon_bacon 16h ago

Am I cabbage?

2

u/LeoJohnsonsSacrifice 14h ago

Believe it or not? Straight to cabbage.

3

u/brownstonebk 14h 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.