Plants rarely have their name written on them though
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I always felt that broccoli was spelt the way it looked
just proof of the successful campaign by Big Broccoli and the DRAM video 🥦 kids even went with the haircut
I think broccoli and cauliflower should switch names, broccoli looks way more cauliflower and cauliflower way more broccoli.
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Because corporate logos are intentionally designed to evoke the brand they represent?
Yeah, stupid nature. Doesn't even know the basics of brand recognition.
Also most of the logos are just the name next to an icon. Plants only occasionally have thier name written next to them.
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If you can't recognize most of the plants in the produce section, you really oughta be eating more fruits and vegetables. I don't really like veggies either and I still know more than 10 plants just in the category of food you can buy with a corporate logo on it.
Vegetables are often the root of the plant. Fruits are the… well fruit.
I think the context of this meme is about the plant as a specimen in nature.
Below is a picture of a carrot plant and onion plant.
If not for survival video games i would not have known.
You R E A L L Y want to get your carrots/parsnips right when it comes to ID, though. Water hemlock is fatal if ingested, and several parsnips will give you gnarly blisters if you come into contact with their sap
Gotta be easier than mushrooms, right? Right?
Yes, but don't go touching random plants
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heracleum_mantegazzianum
And the carrot plant looks near identical to Giant Hogsweed because they're both in the same family. One has a delicious carrot underneath and will do you no harm, you can even eat the green tops. The other will cause you severe burns even just by brushing against it. The plant itself doesn't even burn you, it destroys the skin in such a way that sunshine is what burns you.
hogweed is hogwild. my wife has these strange white scars all over her legs, arms, and chest because she was weed whacking in shorts and a spaghetti top and hogweed juice sprayed on her. she has somewhat darker skin so the scars stand out. she does not weed whack in anything but full coverage now. the scars are slowly fading but it's been about 5 months and they're still very prominent.
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Typically you'll have to break the stem, right?
Giant hogweed really is quite large, often more than head-height - you're more likely to confuse carrot with cow parsley or hemlock or maybe yarrow, I'd have thought.
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onion flowers are my favorite type of flower. when they're in full bloom they get so pretty. i have a patch of bunching onions that i barely even eat, just keep them for the flowers each year. the patch is growing because each flower produces dozens of seeds
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If plants had their names on their leaves I'd recognize a bunch of them as well.
Let’s make sure to shame the people being bombarded by advertisements for 90% of their lives. That’ll motivate them to be more cognizant of botany
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Broccoli, cabbage, kale, Brussels sprouts, cauliflower, bok choy, turnip, radish, collards and Mustard greens. 10 different plants, easy peasy!
I've got some bad news for you...
I choose not to acknowledge it!
To be fair, corporate logos are specifically designed to take advantage of quirks in human cognition to make them distinct and memorable. Most plants pre-date human cognition, and the ones which don't tend to be the ones people recognize instantly.
Oh look, r/im14andthisisdeep finally migrated to Lemmy!
How many of those plants do ppl use in their daily lives? vs How many of those corporate products do they use in their daily lives?
It's a bullshit claim anyhow. Try only using logos that don't have the company name in them.
If the names of the plants would be spelled for me under each plant every time then that would greatly enhance my memory.
To be fair, the Apple logo is also a plant.
And once you've eaten a rotten apple, you never forget.
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In fairness if plants had their names written on them, I'd probably be able to identify those as well.
monsanto: "write that down, write that down!"
Cause we don't live in a forest anymore?
I knew there was something wrong with my place in Phoenix, AZ. Dang Democrats stole the forest!
And the golf courses and lawns have made it humid! I thought it was supposed to be a "dry heat," fucking over 100° and 70% humidity every single time I have to visit. Either that of freezing. One time it snowed.... IN PHOENIX! Well, technically Mesa, but that's just a suburb of Phoenix.
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I'm 14 and this is deep
Embrace the smug gardener and only use the latin names
Gonna harvest my Solanum tuberosums.
What’s the latin word for nike?
Victoria
is the number 1000 based on anything? i'm curious if there have been any studies on the amount of logos most people recognize. 1000 seems high but also not, so i wonder if there's science to back it up
It's obviously bullshit.
Could you imagine sitting through a survey with over a thousand logos and plants to be able to reach this conclusion?😆
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what... how is this a dystopic thing. put aside the fact that knowing brands helps me make decisions all the time and knowing plants wouldn't help me at all since I'm not a forager... you could get rid of all corporations today and make us live in a perfect, moneyless, classless utopia and 20 years later I could still name maybe 4 different flowers because I don't give a shit what they're called.
Also brand marketing is built to sear their brand into your brain vs. plants who just vibe.
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I'm skeptical about the 10 number, fruits and vegetables are plants.
Ok, then. Lets make a list of 11 plants easy to recognised to help society:
- clover
- dandelion
- blackberry thorn
- nettle
- mint. There is different types so this one can be trickier that the others. The leaves are rounded or on the rounded-side and smell like mint when rub btw the finger
- daisy
- daffodil
- cowslip
- mallow
- bindweed
- oaktree
Here you go. Enjoy saving society from its decline.
To be fair, I can't eat plants. Oh wait, that's not fair at all. DAMN IT
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