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Kale tastes like kale.
Selective Breeding mint leaves to be gigantic as well as more mildly flavored certainly seems possible.
This creates a new vegetable people might like!
(pre-breeding this could be tested with gibberelin on mint)
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I've always thought my elephant ear plant could taste better. |
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Grown large, mint leaves have an unpleasant texture. |
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How about 'breeding' venus fly traps that eat pigeons?
There are far too many pigeons; I don't approve of animal
killing to reduce their population, but I'm ok with it in the
natural world (ie the non-human world) and once the plants
have digested them, they would be suitable for vegetarians
to eat. |
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One would need a mint shaving device if this were to be done with spearmint. |
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I would point out that basil has smooth leaves, is in the mint family, and is enthusiastically eaten worldwide. |
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/I'm ok with it in the natural world (ie the non-human world) and once the plants have digested them, they would be suitable for vegetarians to eat./ |
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If an animal is affixed near the plant such that it cannot leave, it eventually dies of its own accord and nourishes the plant. I hope for this conclusion myself, although more the dying of my own accord near the plant and nourishing than the getting affixed part. |
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New Potatoes Now Frying! - nourished by the festering remains of the character known as bungston (of halfbakery fame), to create a unique flavour that lies somewhere between burnt tyres, frogspawn and oil of cloves. |
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Also, could the same result not be obtained by
adding a few mint leaves to kale whilst cooking
it? |
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For a reason which I have never completely
underhended, it is possible to buy tinned peas with
mint. Whether anybody actually does so, I do not
know. |
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// could the same result not be obtained by adding a few mint leaves to kale whilst cooking it ? // |
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Yes, of course. The process can be analysed thus: |
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1. Cook the kale.
2. Throw it away, because it's disgusting |
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1. Cook the kale and mint together.
2. Throw it away, because it's still disgusting. |
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In both cases, the important (indeed critical) step of the sequence is throwing the kale (with or without mint) away. |
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Shame on you, [8th]. Kale, properly prepared, is one
of the most delicious foods you will ever taste. I
could practically live on the stuff - either on its own,
or in a sandwich - in fact there is no bad way to eat
kale that I know of. Only a fool or an ignoramus
would reject it. |
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No, wait - I was thinking of bacon. |
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Well, at least the idea does not involve selective breeding. |
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