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[Rose]

Yeah, in hindi, it's flower-cabbage and leaf-cabbage for cauliflower and cabbage

[scriver]

I'm pretty sure I'm nationally required to find Swedes the most superior veggie since you Englishfolks decided to go ahead and call them that.

[Gunner-Chan]

It's 3 am in the morning and I want pizza. And to play PUBG more. God dammit.

[martinuzz]

Cauliflower is flower-cabbage in Dutch too

[ArchAIngel]

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2017/07/04/evil-genius-2-announced/

That fast enough for ya? ;P

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[IcyTea31]

I'm pretty sure I'm nationally required to find Swedes the most superior veggie since you Englishfolks decided to go ahead and call them that.

Meanwhile Finns just call it lanttu, a word with the same root as 'plant'. I think it's the most generic name for a foodstuff ever.

[Tiruin]

Complete culture shock again but in browsing the Ameripol thread and coming upon a link...
. . .
I feel kind of confused at the idea that >50% of surveyed folks given the link's data have trouble in geography. As in, how is this even possible? .-.;
Because I don't know how things are, outside of my locality. :/

Edited because of typos!

[IcyTea31]

From what I understand, geography education in the US focuses more on the domestic than the global. Those people who couldn't find North Korea could probably find North Carolina, which I honestly don't think I could.

[Khan Boyzitbig]

The only reason I would grow a Brassica is to attract pretty butterflies and watch little green caterpillars become enormous. As for geography, I couldn't tell you where each US state is (or English county for that matter) but I could tell you where pretty much every country is.

[Yoink]

I'm eating a heap of various veggies right now. Homemade pasta salad and roast potatoes. Mm-mmm.

Also, on the subject, on the roadtrip I recently took with friends we ventured to the town most of us grew up in and discovered this freaky-looking fractal broccoli in the local supermarket. It was intense. Strangest-looking thing I can recall ever having seen in the vegetable section of a store. Apparently it tasted more-or-less like regular broccoli, but it looked fascinating.   

[Neonivek]

From what I understand, geography education in the US focuses more on the domestic than the global. Those people who couldn't find North Korea could probably find North Carolina, which I honestly don't think I could.

Besides the whole "Geography education is so terrible in the US" is kind of more... manufactured complaint given that other countries teach Geography more like it was a trivia game. Just memorize the Continents, Countries, and Capitals and you are set.

[NJW2000]

Other countries such as?

In England, it's more of a focus on rivers and stuff, or urban development. Barely any locations at all.

[Neonivek]

Other countries such as?

In England, it's more of a focus on rivers and stuff, or urban development. Barely any locations at all.

Ohh sorry... Lets add famos rivers, oceans, and famos lakes.

[sjm9876]

Neo, you misunderstood (source: also British)

Focus on the process of river and other geographical feature formation, the effects of people on the geography, and the like. Pretty sure the last time I had to name a specific feature on a map, let alone a country, was in primary school.

[Neonivek]

That isn't the criticism leveraged against Americans.

The Criticism is that they don't know the trivia. Not that they don't know what an archipelago is.