matthewb
@matthewb
nobody: nobody at all: @brileigh: do you want to hear about the history of vegetables
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brileigh
@brileigh
listen, who KNEW that asparagus was popularized for its medicinal properties thanks to Hippocrates who used it to treat diarrhea and urethral pain? sadly it went out of popularity during the medieval period.
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@trh
It reminds me of a statement I recently heard somewhere that there’s no such thing as a vegetable — it’s a culinary term, not a classification like fruit, tuber, etc.
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