/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.19581261]

was this plant even meant for human consumption?

[Anonymous No.19581275]

what do you mean by that? meant by who? we created all these plants, nothing you can get at your supermarket is natural.

[Anonymous No.19581276]

It was meant to go up your ass but we twisted God's vision for us...

[Anonymous No.19581290]

>>19581261
It was meant for consumption. Plants developed corms like that so that their seeds would be consumed by animals, propagating them across the areas those animals inhabited.

So, in short, yes. You could have learned this in any High School biology class.

[Anonymous No.19581340]

>>19581290
Lowkey mirin the Aztexans ability to domesticate so many flora that we see as a staple today. Chilli, corn, tomatoes, sweet potato, avocados, cacao, beans and Turkey. Thank you Central Ameribros.

[Anonymous No.19581357]

Corn is king, I literally love any corn or corn based product

[Anonymous No.19581394]

Have you ever whooey gooeyd hands free on a cob like god intended?

[Anonymous No.19581397]

>>19581261
Yes, for white women to prep them.

[Anonymous No.19581416]

You're supposed to nixtamalize it (which is a process dating back to how the native Americans prepped corn for eating); generally-speaking it's not meant to be eaten without being processed; it won't have many nutrients. But fine to have occasionally.

[Anonymous No.19581529]

>>19581340
Kinda wild how they turned what was essentially their native wheat into corn. This is more /tg/ related, but it's why I make them biomancers in my setting.

[Anonymous No.19581532]

>>19581340
>>19581529
how's the weather in oaxaca?

[Anonymous No.19581610]

>>19581340
>how the Aztecs
Queue triggered Mayatroons

[Anonymous No.19581652]

>>19581261
built for brutal bodily cram

[Anonymous No.19581662]

>>19581357
Pigeon detected.
>>19581261
Of course not. It's not in the bible, except for proper Po valley polenta.

[Anonymous No.19581687]

>>19581652
Why do you think it's supposed to be slathered in butter?

[Anonymous No.19581689]

[Anonymous No.19581695]

>>19581340
Aztecs are such bastards. They didn’t do shit. Every building block of civilizations was already well established in mesoamerica before they showed up and started cutting off people’s faces and wearing their skin

[Anonymous No.19581704]

>>19581416
that's dent corn. not sweet corn.

[Anonymous No.19581727]

country girls make do

[Anonymous No.19581762]

Imagine getting filtered by a vegetable (fruit). You will never make it in North America.

[Anonymous No.19581763]

>>19581762
my asshole is your mirror

[Anonymous No.19581831]

>>19581763
This makes no sense. Learn English, thirdie.

[Anonymous No.19581873]

>>19581831
It makes sense. He's saying you look like his asshole.

[Anonymous No.19581886]

>>19581873
What a pretty asshole he must have. He won't make it in prison either.

[Anonymous No.19582492]

>>19581261
Fresh corn is quite delicious although sadly I rarely go out of my way to ever buy it. Canned is very meh. Some corn that doesnt grow well is just used as animal feed and they'll eat the whole thing, the parts we dont eat. Have you had sweet corn, op? Its usually a little smaller, narrower, and has tons of those extra hairlike strands on it when you're shucking it.

[Anonymous No.19582504]

>>19581261
yes it's amazing as a cake or on pizza

[Anonymous No.19582505]

>>19581261
I go for the mini cukes myself, flavor up some vodka or gin with those things.

[Anonymous No.19582507]

>>19581261
"meant"? WTF?
We eat whatever is edible. There's no meaning or purpose or plan. If it doesn't make you sick you can eat it.

It looks domesticated to me, so I assume the farmers DID "mean" for humans to consume it.

[Anonymous No.19582511]

>>19582507
I like eating cows and pork, that never seems to fail.

[Anonymous No.19582639]

>>19582507
>There's no meaning or purpose or plan.
Fruits defy your logic.
Angiosperms in general have a lot of obligate mutualism where there can't survive unless an animal helps them either pollinate or spread their seeds.
In nature, there are plenty of foods made for human consumption. Ironically though, some of the healthiest foods, like peppers, don't actually meet this category since they are meant for birds.

[Anonymous No.19582674]

>>19581261
No plant is MEANT for human consumption. We selectively bred it to be edible without needing a lye bath.

[Anonymous No.19582680]

>>19582507
We played around with some of the things that used to make us sick (almonds for example) to make them edible.

Which is to say that I agree. A lot of plants and animals have been breed to be more edible.

[Anonymous No.19582833]

>>19582674
>>19581290

[Anonymous No.19582900]

>>19582833
We can't eat natural corn, and we're pretty late to the game - to the point where a large majority of the things that rely on us for propagation are plants that we farm.

We had a handful of shitty low-hanging fruits in a handful of places, and some scraggly brassica before we figured out how to process grains and play god with pollen.

[Anonymous No.19583105]

>>19582674
>No plant is MEANT for human consumption.
Any plant with seeds that can survive digestion is literally meant to be consumed. Hell, some seeds don't even grow until they've been eaten.

[Anonymous No.19583294]

>>19581261
Perhaps not as a primary purpose, OP. Yes, it was made to feed a population. But, humans? The mainstream explanation for the Agricultural Revolution is dumb, and we only believe it because we are taught it when our brains are young.

1/5

[Anonymous No.19583297]

>>19583294
Wow i forgot the pic

[Anonymous No.19583299]

>>19581532
Speaking of Oaxaca where can I get some good tequila?

[Anonymous No.19583303]

>>19581689
That corncob clearly needs a home in her buttholio, then it would be cornholio

[Anonymous No.19583307]

>>19583297
Bruh why tf is it sideways. Fuck it. I was going to post em here but here are the 5 pics instead:
https://imgur.com/a/SATmvvD

[Anonymous No.19583311]

Nothing in nature is "meant" for anything. Stay in school (and go back soon).

[Anonymous No.19583324]

>>19583297
Fixed it for the poster, I wanted to read it without having to cock my head sideways.

[Anonymous No.19583331]

>>19583311
muh dik is meant for something baby

[Anonymous No.19583337]

>>19583311
Then explain turtles. They come with their own pot for heaven's sake.

[Anonymous No.19583352]

>>19583337
Dont forget Lonesome George the giant sea tortosie.

[Anonymous No.19583355]

>>19583105
Plenty of plants have entered a kind of symbiotic relationship with animals, but no plant really has that kind of 'eat me and we both do better' relationship with people. The closest thing I can think of in modern times would be the vanilla orchid. We've made out own little give and take relationships through agriculture and breeding. There have to be some fruits and vegetables that predate agriculture that we probably ate, then noticed how bushes sprung up near our latrines, but (beating this dead horse back to life) there's nothing that we really built a kapi-luwac situation with. We cut our way in line on a few things, but we weren't subsisting entirely on coffee cherries and shitting out the next generation. The only plants that are designed for us to eat - things that are so intrinsic to our survival, and fit holes in our diets perfectly - are plants that we designed.

[Anonymous No.19583411]

>>19583355
We fit the bill in so many of these cases because as far as the plants are concerned, we're pretty closely related to bears and other animals they rely on. Plants are a lot more varied than mammals are, so a lot of the time it's not just an coincidence or cutting in when we fit the bill.
Also, I'll just throw in avacodos for the sake of it. We're pretty much the only species keeping those ones around, namely because nothing else large enough to eat them is really around anymore.

[Anonymous No.19583439]

>>19583411
May God have mercy on the asshole passing those seeds.

[Anonymous No.19583454]

>>19583299
In Jalisco.

[Anonymous No.19583463]

>>19583411
I forgot to put it in my thing (because je suis fat and gay) but a lot of the big ones - namely grains and beans - can't be eaten as-is. A long simmer's the bare minimum for some of these things. It might have been OP's point/joke, but corn's come a long way from the grass with a little bit of hard shit on it that it used to be. Even when we domesticated it and finally got a decent amount of hard shit to pop out of a now reasonably tall, solid bamboo-looking-thing, we still couldn't eat it without boiling it in lime-water for a few thousand years. Sweet corn didn't really come around until the late 1700's (it did probably happen spontaneously here and there before that).

[Anonymous No.19583466]

>>19583454
Ahh, thanks.

[Anonymous No.19583802]

No. But you can eat it if you want, you wont die.

[Anonymous No.19583819]

>>19581261
aztecs made grass into that and ate it for food fag, maize is a super food that brought the current world to it's population size.
It's so good that for life that they make the most shit version possible and feed it to livestock.

[Anonymous No.19584742]

this is the only way to eat corn

[Anonymous No.19584745]

>>19583819
>brought the current world to it's population size.
how is that a good thing you humongous retard

[Anonymous No.19584781]

>>19581261
No plants were meant for human consumption.