miscellaneous epiphanies (root vegetable edition)

• that beets and chard are different parts of the same plant*
• ditto turnips and chinese cabbage*
• that baby carrots are regular-sized carrots cut to smaller pieces (this is a rerun)
• that yuca is another name for cassava and that tapioca (and therefore tapioca pudding) comes from it
• that queen anne’s lace is the above ground flower of the carrot*.

see also: miscellaneous epiphanies d.c. edition and logos with arrows edition

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*before you go digging up roots in your neighbor’s garden know this: though these plant parts are from the same species of plant, the plants are usually cultivated for one or the other. this is similar to the way that lassie and scooby doo are the same species of murder-solving canines but one was bred to look good in black and white and the other was bred to hang with disco celebrities.