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[–] ook@discuss.tchncs.de 35 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I... don't know enough about broccoli to figure out if this is a meme or not.

[–] prex@aussie.zone 29 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I don't know enough about memes to figure out if this is broccoli or not.

[–] OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 months ago

And at this point I'm too afraid to ask

[–] ThePancakeExperiment@feddit.org 24 points 2 months ago (3 children)

It is not, with broccoli and cauliflower you literally eat the buds, or how they are called in English, and they can of course flower.

[–] funkajunk@lemmy.world 20 points 2 months ago

We call them "florets", which means "small flower"

[–] ilovecheese@feddit.uk 7 points 2 months ago

And butterflies love the flowers! All my broccoli went to flower (bolted) last year!

[–] Bldck@beehaw.org 4 points 2 months ago

In English it’s called a floret. Which hints at its true form