Wait until you find out that corn is also a grass.
Too difficult for BBQ.
And they are all delicious
Post 1494 Is the size queen era
Corn in the year 2099:
This will be corn in 2013
Look out boys, we got ourselves a time traveler!
I can understand peoples reluctance to accept GMO crops, but good god we’ve already modified them to smithereens.
Selective breeding and gene editing are not the same.
right. one is centered on a profit goal. which is deplorable for the record.
Not always. Golden rice is amazing.
No, one works much much faster.
Everything is a brassica.
I am a brassica
Grass is much broader than most people think. Corn is my go to example of a grass that doesn’t really look like grass. Bamboo and the reeds next to the lake are also grass. So is wheat, barley, oats, rye and rice. I currently live in a region that’s too cold for legumes and canola so all that’s commonly grown is barley, wheat, oats and ley (grass for cows). I sometimes joke that all they grow up here is grass. Well except for potatoes, they do grow those up here, but quite sparsely.
Behold, grass:
Though cannabis, despite sometimes being referred to as “grass” is not a grass. It is not necessarily a weed either, since “weed” isn’t a botany term but a gardening/farming term for “plant I didn’t intent to grow”, but pot farmers do intend to grow it (it is also not a type of pot or pitcher plant).
[Cannabis] is also not a type of pot
Woah dude
Spoken like a true Barley Man.
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Did you know that barley is the earliest maturing of the grains which made barley the historically most important grain in the northernmost parts Sweden and Finland where no other grain could mature in time. The earliest varieties were ripe after a mere 90 days despite the temperatures in summer seldom going above 20 Celsius. However some parts of northern inland Scandinavia were too cold for even barley and this climatic border also became the border between agrarian Finns/Swedes and the reindeer herding Sami.
Did you know that barley may have been domesticated for beer before it was used for bread. Yes that’s a real theory that a group of real historians believe. The argument for this theory is that we have earlier evidence of beer brewing than we have of bread baking.
Did you know barley has a inedible hull covering every grain that makes it extremely annoying to process by hand. Because of this I don’t recommend growing it in your garden. Making it edible with only your kitchen tools would include you having to sift it over and over again. If you’re growing grain in your garden pick a hulless grain like wheat or rye.
How did people process barley back in the day?
Could they just throw the whole thing into brew beer, hull and all? Is that maybe why it was used for beer before bread? Just speculating, I’m neither a brewer nor a barley man
When making beer the hull is beneficial because if you use a hullless grain the mash becomes a big sloppy mass that doesn’t really drain well, like a super wet dough. The hull however breaks up this structure and makes the mash free draining meaning you can easily remove the liquids from the solids. Even beer like wheat beer is often still up to 50% barley because of this. Funnily enough the original mesopotamian beer was not strained at all. All the solids were still in there so it was chunky. They drank this beer with a straw.
Regarding how barley flour for bread was traditionally made. When you grind up whole barley the inner portion turns to flour while the hull tends to come out the other side pretty much intact because it’s quite tough. Therefore you can sift it through a sieve because while it is thin the hull takes up a lot of space in the other 2 dimensions. The house wives of old in barley dominant regions would do this near daily. While this works well it’s of course extra work compared to a hullless grain like wheat where the flour that goes out of the grain mill is ready to use straight from the get go. Of course nowadays we have industrial equipment that can dehull tonnes of barley per second.
Palm trees are also closely related to grass as well. No rings (so it’s kind of not wood), all one “stalk” or whatnot that’s alive and wet.
Humans: Making grain BIG since 5,000 BCE!
Now do arrosticini to Döner!
Hunter-gatherer girls make do.
Makin grits ‘n’ suckin clits
Cunt-tree hehehe
Now do wild mustard plant.
a-maze-ing
Maize
Well the plant looks like grass for like the first 2 months then it gets huge.
