/ck/ - Food & Cooking

....the same thing as this?

>>4868372
they're in the squash family, doesn't make them the same thing. 2/10 for making me reply.

>>4868383
They're the same species, actually.

>itt: morphology = geneology

How is this...

Just think of it like dogs. A chihuahua looks nothing like a sheepdog but they're the same species, and just like squash, you eat one in the summer and one in the winter.

>>4868372
>>4868374

I look at the people around me, and I often ask myself the same question.

>>4868427
...the same thing as this?

... the same thing as this?

idk man, genetics are cool

>>4868427

>>4868438
That's easy to explain

damn dirty shapeshifting familiars

>>4868374
The same way these two are the same thing, as well.

>>4868429
I wonder if dogs taste different too depending on breed.

>>4868457
Don't be silly, that is clearly a rare Chilean thin-tailed squirrel and a Bavaraian jowled pony.

>>4868372
Inb4 boong vs whitey.

>>4868372

This thread is now about Rico Wen.

>>4868479
Do black people taste better than white people?
Legit question, not a cannibal.

>>4868457
If she layed down and he tapped that ass, they could have puppies.
Genetics blows my mind

>>4868372
They are the same as how African banana and the one we have are the same.

>>4868491
Pumpkin-flavored puppies.
Mmm.

Same with cabbage and broccoli.

>>4868497
What's an african banana? Looks the same on google to me.

>>4868531
They are hard and green. You have to cook them to eat them.

>>4868372

Every single fruit and vegetable human beings eat was cultivated and changed to look and taste a certain way. With enough time and effort you can do really crazy shit to plants and animals. Just look at dogs, originally there was one type of dog, but human beings kept breeding and manipulating dogs to take on different characteristics. I've joked for about ten years that if I ever hit it rich I would start breeding camels until I got them to the size of typical a house cat.

Back to plants though. Look up a guy named Norman Borlaug. He was one of the greatest men who ever lived because his life's work resulted in at least 1 billion people being saved from starvation, malnutrition and death. He traveled to various countries to improve the agricultural output and the quality of the food people could grow. What he did was he'd move his family to a place like say Mexico or India and he'd start doing these breeding programs and research studies on different types of crops. His work usually resulted in these countries doubling or quadrupling their food output because he massively improved the quality of the plants that were grown because the plant breeding programs he instituted would change the characteristics of the plants so that they could tolerate and handle the specific characteristics of the regions they would be grown in. So like in Mexico, farmers would grow wheat, but it would always die when the rains came because the stalks were too thin and the plant would grow too tall. By breeding new kinds of wheat that were thicker, shorter and more robust during extremely wet conditions he quadrupled their wheat output.

When I was in college (I'm a STEM major) I wrote some papers and read through a lot of fascinating agriculture research in various academic databases about this guy. It's really hard to comprehend how our supermarket homogeneous prepackaged world has affected our knowledge of how food is grown and can change through our efforts.

>>4868465
I'd guess so. Different breeds of pig and chicken taste different. For example: chicken in the US is abysmal because the Jersey Giant breed has been the preferred variety for meat in America since 1922. It's a huge bird but tastes like near nothing. The Bresse, however, is absolutely delicious, but considerably smaller than a Jersey Giant.
As for pigs, the standard in the US is the Hampshire, which has a good flavour and is quite tasty. Mangalizza hogs, however, have a natural sweetness to their flesh and are noticeably different from Hampshires.