Please be careful guys. I just found these green worms, or perhaps pupae, hidden inside the broccoli.
>>20983953All produce is riddled with living things, anonit is the stuff of lifethey like it for the same reason you do
Cabbage moth. They're the biting white butterflies with the round wings you see in the summer. Nothing to be alarmed by Found a cabbage moth caterpillar in some bok choy a few years ago. It happens. I just removed it, blanched, shocked, washed and cooked the veg, no harm, no foul.
>>20983962Well, I expect science to deal with this. I want broccoli grown indoors hydroponically and harvested by robot, then wrapped in airtight single-use plastic containers before being shipped directly to my door. >>20983972100 years ago, you'd have moths and caterpillars crawling around in your bed. "It happens" they said.
>>20983953frozen cut up broncoli is cheaper than the fresh florets. get frozen next time
>>20983972>bitingWtf was I thinking? LITTLE white butterflies. I was wrong, anyway. Po angielski, they're called the same thing but the one I meant isn't even white, actually. They're dark grey. Oops.
>>20983986>frozen cut up broncoliIn what universe? Fresh broccoli is 99¢/lb and tastes like broccoli. Frozen broccoli is $2/12oz and tastes like sugared poopshits. All brassicas take an unpleasant sweetness upon freezing, even if blanched first. I hate them frozen.
>>20983986cooking broccoli from frozen yields an inferior result unless you were planning on overcooking it to begin with, which I sometimes do
>>20983995I hate the way fresh "spicy" broccoli tastes, but it is one of the best smelling things ever
>>20983995maybe because I'm shopping at hyvee fresh is $3 a lb so I got 3 10oz bags of frozen for $3
>>20984006Maybe. I'm not sure what part of the US Hy-Vee are in but I'm on the coast and all brassica are super cheap here except specialty cauliflowers (the orange, green and purple ones, I mean) and uncommon ones like some stuff at Asian supermarkets. Everything else is $1-1.49/lb. Shit, actually, not even then. I just remembered I bought a bunch of red mustard recently at the Asian supermarket for 99¢/lb which reminded me that last year, I got 3lbs of organic mustard greens from Sprouts half off IE for 75¢/lb. I usually cook kale or collards for Thanksgiving but at that price, we went mustard greens that year. I didn't like how soft it was compared to collards or even kale, but they tasted nice so it wasn't too bad.Amaranths are the expensive greens here. Fresh beet greens/chard, mature spinach, lamb's quarters, worts and amaranth itself AKA taro greens, callaloo or dasheen. Also docks. Fresh sorrel costs an arm and a fucking leg and proper spinach is $2.49-$4/lb now.
>>20983953they say you are what you eat and these critters spent their whole life eating nothing but broccoli
>>20983953Catterpillar is good protein.
>>20983953One time my broccoli came with free earwigs
>>20984099I hate these little fags, they swim in the sea sometimes and just bite you in the ass i hate it.
>>20984104earwigs don't swim and don't bite dude, they're actually pretty chill bugs.
>>20984113I think he meant these little shits, I remember them biting my toes all the time when I was little
>>20984113They do in my cunt
>>20984042I would love to shop at the asian store more often. they can keep prices low because they are smart with space. gotta go outta my way to desmoines though
>>20983953>pupaeit's pupi
>>20984042Nice, I love mustard greens too. Have you tried fermenting or pickling them before? Really worthwhile if you haven't, my girlfriend is Hmong and often makes fermented mustard greens and they're delicious.
>>20984233No, it's poopy
>>20984099My house comes with free earwigs every spring.Did you know they can fly?
>>20983953Insects eating your food is a sign that it isn't tainted by chemical impurities. Just wash it off and enjoy.
>>20983982kek
>>20984254Different kind of mustard greens. The ones SEA, Hmong in particular, use are mustard cabbage. The ones I bought are more similar to very curly lettuce leaves. Soft and tender and they don't form a head. Different taste, too.
