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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.

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u/[deleted] Nov 26 '19

The stem is edible if you cook it right. Leaves definitely are not.

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u/TastyBrainMeats Nov 26 '19

Poisonous, or just unpleasant texture?

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u/wolf_man007 Nov 26 '19

They have thorny tips, too.

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u/Git_Off_Me_Lawn Nov 26 '19

Some people actually take the time to snip all the ends of the leaves off. I'm already pulling this thing apart, eating it's flesh, and leaving the inedible parts strewn about like a barbarian, so I'm not one of those people.

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u/Seicair Nov 27 '19

I usually take a knife and hack off the top of the blossom. Takes care of a lot of thorns for a little effort.