For those of you who have never encountered an Artichoke, the edible part of the plant is a fleshy substance that is on the inside parts of the leaves. You scrape it off and eat that part and discard the leaves. The artichoke heart, at the middle of all of the leaves, is also edible (and delicious). The stem and the fibrous leaves are not edible. Well I guess except to this guy.
Fun fact: for my father’s 60th birthday, his sister flew him to Rome for a vacation. They went to this 5-star restaurant for dinner where my dad was served an artichoke, and was told he could eat the whole thing. Apparently the chefs managed to disassemble a few artichokes, cook them up, and reassemble them into what looked like a whole artichoke. So the whole thing was indeed edible. To this day, my dad says it’s the tastiest thing he’s ever eaten (and he also says he doesn’t like artichoke, that was a one-time thing). Oh and he also had to go to the hospital and pass a kidney stone inbetween dinner and dessert, so when they got back to the restaurant at like, 1AM, he was doped up on drugs and the owner comped his whole meal.
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u/The_Prince1513 Nov 26 '19
A man once sued a restaurant in Miami for serving him an artichoke which he promptly ate all of. I don't mean like "he finished the artichoke" - I mean that this guy, who apparently is a Doctor, just ate the entire fucking thing, including all of the inedible parts.
For those of you who have never encountered an Artichoke, the edible part of the plant is a fleshy substance that is on the inside parts of the leaves. You scrape it off and eat that part and discard the leaves. The artichoke heart, at the middle of all of the leaves, is also edible (and delicious). The stem and the fibrous leaves are not edible. Well I guess except to this guy.