The General Pooter Games Thread.

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Originally Posted by Wolfshade

It is selective breading to get certain characteristics. For some reason it is acceptable with flowers/plants/vegetables, even certain animals (like the projects to rebread extinct animals from hybrids). But you do it with people and suddenly it's 1930's Germany all over again.

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I know all this, I'm not a complete retard. But I still maintain that Brussels aren't a GM product derived from cabbages. You need to prove this young man ;)

They're a selectively breed variety from the common point of Brassica oleracea

Ok, it is GM but no in the way that tomatos have been spliced with fish dna. A better word would be cultivar. They are all cultivars of the species Brassica oleracea. There are 7 main types of cultivar:
Acephala Group – kale and collard greens
Alboglabra Group – Chinese broccoli
Botrytis Group – cauliflower, Romanesco broccoli and broccoflower
Capitata Group – cabbage
Gemmifera Group – brussels sprouts
Gongylodes Group – kohlrabi
Italica Group – broccoli

So they are all the same plant species, just different ones are breed selectively to have specific characteristics,
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...ica-garden.jpg
[Thanks Wookipodia]

What bugs me is how some things are a vegetable in a culinary sense due to being savoury, but are actually fruit in a biology sense (like tomatoes). Can make it really confusing because then you have strawberries which aren't berries, peanuts aren't nuts and kidneys aren't fruit..? I mean what's up with that?!

Knowledge is knowing that a cucumber is fruit; Wisdom is not including it in a fruit salad - Me.

I avoid the whole issue by trying to eat a diet of potato and red meat.

I like cucumber. It's a lovely fruit.

Also....see that Pineapple? That's a berry that is. And that Banana? That's actually a herb that is (apparently)

Cucumbers are for eating? :eek: :confused: Who knew...

Cucumber sancwiches are delicious and you can pickle cucumbers into pickles which are even more delicious.

That's not waht the internet says they're for...

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Originally Posted by Mr Mystery

Also....see that Pineapple? That's a berry that is. And that Banana? That's actually a herb that is (apparently)

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I knew about the banana, but not of the pineapple, so it is coalesced berries, who knew!?