Agronomists will call these vegetables a deviation from the norm, and gardeners have a lot of fun and post pictures of the fruits of their labor on social networks.
The carrot is oblong, smooth and orange. The potato is round and preferably smooth. This is the ideal. And in the photos that flaunt on the seed packages. But in reality, in the garden sometimes grows such that you are amazed: pepper with a human face, zucchini, more like a snake, nosed eggplants …
In general, the number of fruits and vegetables that are not similar to themselves, but to animals, insects and even people, is simply off scale. Tell me, is it possible to eat this tomato that looks like a little duck?
But this strawberry, which for some reason has grown in the form of a chicken? Or two carrots that look like a mother and child embracing … No, it’s absolutely impossible to eat that. Our brains, which automatically endows objects with the properties of things they look like, will not approve of this.
Carrot, by the way, is a real champion in reincarnation. Emo carrot sitting in a sad pose. And here is a carrot, similar to a vigorous dancer or “sitting” on a twine, right Volochkova of the vegetable world. The only competition for her is a radish, which is capable of assuming languid poses – like those in which models lie on the canvases of Renaissance artists.
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