• PugJesus@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
    50·
    18 days ago

    [curious]

    [checks wiki]

    Holy shit

    That’s some quality fucking selective breeding

    • oce 🐆English
      28·
      18 days ago

      Same thing to pretty much any vegetable/fruit. I think the closest from the wild we eat are forest strawberries and forest mushrooms, everything else is thousands of years of selection to become those gorgeous packs of nutriments.

      • groet@feddit.orgEnglish
        10·
        17 days ago

        Not cabbage. Nobody would ever think to turn cabbage into anything other than what it naturally is. Absolutely nobody. Especially not the Romans. /uj

        “Wild” strawberries are probably also not very wild but highly contaminated with cultured strains through cross polination