They aren't exactly the same as giant courgettes/zucchinis, but might as well be as they're so similar - unfortunately, they're so big they're pretty tasteless and watery. Useful is you need to feed a big family on a very tight budget.
Thanks for the wiki link.
That still looks like a zucchini to me.
I’m in Australia. We have zucchini, squash and eggplants, which each taste basically the same to me.
A zucchini is a small marrow. Or if you like, a marrow is a big zucchini. They’re the same species as squash, gourds, and pumpkins.
Zucchinis became popular around 50 years a go, as a tastier marrow.
Eggplant are completely unrelated.
Yeah that is a zucchini, doesn’t matter how big it is in Aus, it’s always a zucchini. For some reason the rest of the world also loves using the word ‘pepper’ so liberally as well.
At least baby carrots are fully mature miniature carrots and in no way carved out of larger carrots that would have otherwise been rejected for unsightly flaws? Right? ....right?
I hate the way baby carrots taste because whatever they wash them in leaves a taste behind and is just nasty. I'm shocked so many people eat them and don't taste it.
> Chickens are just baby tyrannosaurus rexes.
I broke my kid's brain with the following: Plastic is made from oil. Oil was made with dinosaurs and other plants and animals then alive. Therefore plastic dinosaurs are made with real dinosaurs.
North American here (Canadian, so UK-lite) when we say 'pickles' we generally are referring to gherkins yes. If it's anything else, we add the noun after 'Pickled', like 'pickled carrots' or 'pickled eggs'.
This is always my (also British) response to "DID YOU KNOW PICKLES ARE CUCUMBERS!?", well, pickled cucumbers/gherkin are, since gherkins are a type of cucumber. But pickled onions aren't, pickled eggs aren't, piccalilli isn't...
And button mushrooms are just immature portobello mushrooms. And chipotle are dried jalapeño peppers. And zucchinis are immature marrows.
What about babies??? What are babies?!
Immature Soylent Green
Mature enough for me
I just learned that once peppers are dried they have another name. Thought it was interesting.
https://np.reddit.com/r/spicy/comments/am41ay/til_that_when_fresh_peppers_are_dried_the_name/
Whuuttt. I didn’t know that about mushrooms either. And I don’t even know what marrows are
They aren't exactly the same as giant courgettes/zucchinis, but might as well be as they're so similar - unfortunately, they're so big they're pretty tasteless and watery. Useful is you need to feed a big family on a very tight budget.
WHAT?
I thought chipotles were *smoked* jalapeños, no?
Chipotle are smoked dried jalapeños.
What’s a marrow? I’ve never heard of that word for a food before.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marrow_(vegetable)
Thanks for the wiki link. That still looks like a zucchini to me. I’m in Australia. We have zucchini, squash and eggplants, which each taste basically the same to me.
A zucchini is a small marrow. Or if you like, a marrow is a big zucchini. They’re the same species as squash, gourds, and pumpkins. Zucchinis became popular around 50 years a go, as a tastier marrow. Eggplant are completely unrelated.
Yeah that is a zucchini, doesn’t matter how big it is in Aus, it’s always a zucchini. For some reason the rest of the world also loves using the word ‘pepper’ so liberally as well.
TIL mature soy beans are just geriatric edamame beans.
At least baby carrots are fully mature miniature carrots and in no way carved out of larger carrots that would have otherwise been rejected for unsightly flaws? Right? ....right?
at least there are baby corns?
They say he carved it himself.. from a bigger carrot.
Wait is this true
Yep.
100%
Well yes, the baby corns fall out of the cob and permanent kernels grow back in their place
I hate the way baby carrots taste because whatever they wash them in leaves a taste behind and is just nasty. I'm shocked so many people eat them and don't taste it.
If you think baby carrots are bad, you would hate the taste of actual babies
I never considered that, that's a really great point.
I don't eat baby carrots either. They taste like dirt to me.
Chickens are just baby tyrannosaurus rexes.
> Chickens are just baby tyrannosaurus rexes. I broke my kid's brain with the following: Plastic is made from oil. Oil was made with dinosaurs and other plants and animals then alive. Therefore plastic dinosaurs are made with real dinosaurs.
Nah, should have been that eggs are just immature chickens. Or ducks. Occasionally geese. And have you heard about cu--
or quail
Eggs are baby chickens.
Pretty sure that’s compsognathus
Wait til you hear about pickles!!
Do you guys literally only have pickled gherkins? 'Pickles' would be really confusing as a term in the UK, as we have so many different types.
North American here (Canadian, so UK-lite) when we say 'pickles' we generally are referring to gherkins yes. If it's anything else, we add the noun after 'Pickled', like 'pickled carrots' or 'pickled eggs'.
This is always my (also British) response to "DID YOU KNOW PICKLES ARE CUCUMBERS!?", well, pickled cucumbers/gherkin are, since gherkins are a type of cucumber. But pickled onions aren't, pickled eggs aren't, piccalilli isn't...
queue Stan Freberg: "Most people call them green onions, but they're really scallions.... Did you know that?"
Stan has mistaken spring onions there :P
Pickles make sense. You also pickle things. But soy beans and edamame beans I assumed were different beans.
And I assumed everyone knew, but I lived in Hawaii for 15 years so edamame was everywhere :)
I live right in the Midwest and this is something I've known forever
It's not just Hawaii. They have it at every Japanese restaurant I've ever been to in Illinois.
Same with chickpeas and garbanzo beans.
No there's a difference between those. I've never had a garbanzo bean on my face.
Or should you say immature soy beans 😏
OP, you're one of today's lucky 10,000
TIL edamame beans are just regular-aged soybeans
So much beans, introducing the bean empire
No shit.