Please identify this vegetable

[christopher575]

Please identify this vegetable, originally uploaded by christopher575.

I honestly have no clue what it is.

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[christopher575.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[electriclime.livejournal.com]

Oh Jaysus. They combined two of the nastiest vegetables together to make a nastier vegetable. Fuck those people.

[christopher575.livejournal.com]

The worst is when you end up at a waterless flush-free urinal.

[xeross609.livejournal.com]

I agree with this. Grilled asparagus is amazing. However, poorly cooked extra-mushy asparagus can be NASTY.

[nicolemarieh.livejournal.com]

what?! those are two of my favorite vegetables!! how can you not like broccoli... little green trees!! ;) and asparagus is so nommy. as long as it's cooked well and not soggy anyway.

[badrobot68.livejournal.com]

Hahahahahahaha.

And I have never heard of this abomination before.

[b00g2.livejournal.com]

It's actually a cross between broccoli and Chinese broccoli. Asparagus and broccoli are not closely related and are genetically incompatible.

[ubermunkey.livejournal.com]

A hybrid between broccoli and ? Called boroccolini.

[b00g2.livejournal.com]

And Chinese broccoli

[meejies.livejournal.com]

kinda looks like chinese broccoli.

[wring.livejournal.com]

that was my guess

[jameth.livejournal.com]

broccolini

[vurumai.livejournal.com]

Trick question. Not vegetable. Actually squid.

[ultramundanecom.livejournal.com]

Could also be Broccoli Rabe (aka Rapini.)

[clango.livejournal.com]

whatever it is, it's hella brassica (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangle_of_U)