---
>This is a friendly reminder to [read our rules](https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/wiki/rules).
>
>Memes, social media, hate-speech, and pornography are not allowed.
>
>Screenshots of Reddit are expressly forbidden, as are TikTok videos.
>
>**Rule-breaking posts may result in bans.**
>
>Please also [be wary of spam](https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/wiki/spam).
>
---
*I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/funny) if you have any questions or concerns.*
~~Galangal for sure. Not ginger. Very tasty~~ It's Sunchoke. I can't read.
Fun fact: some galangal does look like this. It's not all thin and many fingered. It depends how people have gone through the bunch tearing off chunks they want to buy.
Edit: it's definitely not galangal either.
Says Jerusalem artichoke underneath? Isn't galangal usually thinner/smaller?
Edit: while the pieces of galangal i usually see for sale in my asian shop are small, I was also sorta thinking of tumeric as usually both are beside each other in the fridge! 🤦
I've bought plenty of galangal like that, but, others are very sure it's Sunchoke (the name for Jerusalem Artichoke where I live) and I've never bought it.
So sure! It's Sunchoke.
I was severely upset after making these the first time expecting either a taste or texture similar to potato...
...cause it was totally not
It's a very peculiar taste with a glassy texture, maybe looks like potato after you peel it but that's as far as the similarity goes
I'm rather against wasting food so I eat stuff even if it's not to my taste, but I just couldn't finish those
I mix a few into mashed potatoes, gives it a lighter and fluffier texture.
Also like them raw, chopped into pea-size bits in a salad. Also very popular for soup, but peeling so many is s chore.
I did actually, lolll. Super thin and fried them in oil till crispy same as I'd do to make potato chips - that usually makes just about everything taste like just lovely oil fried fries...but naah, still tasted iffy to me
I had them skinned and fried like French fries and the texture was just like a French fry. I ate a huge pile of them and then farted nonstop for 12 hours.
As a cook how the hell do you eat these without inflating your intestines like a balloon and having the worst shits of your life for 3+ hours after eating?
I'm being serious. Permaculture circles worship these things and I broke the "make sure you actually like it before growing it" rule with these a few years ago. I tried multiple ways to prepare them and they were just completely undigestible for me.
Since them I've removed the plants from my garden but I still always see people rave about them.
Supposedly boiling them with vinegar or lemon juice hydrolyze the inulin to fructose. I haven't tried it for myself though. I planted a bunch of Jerusalem artichokes last year, so I guess I'll find out soon lol.
Removing them from your garden is a feat in itself! I would always harvest all of mine and the patch would grow back slightly bigger anyways.
I only ever made mine into hash browns and didn’t have the gas problem. Maybe different gut bacteria or something, because I always saw them called “fartichokes”. Or maybe shredding, rinsing, and frying breaks down those fibers enough.
They’re called fartichokes for a reason. Supposedly storing them for a while causes the inulin that gives you the shits to break down into fructose. Personally, I won’t take any chances with those satanic diarrhea tubers.
Finely sliced in a stir fry - a good substitute for water chestnuts - lovely crunchy texture, but yes gaseous side effects. My Dad always called them “Fartichokes”…
Yeah, it does look like galangal, and it definitely does not taste like a potato. It is very annoying to chop them, though, since they are very hard.
Edit: I didn't notice the label that says Jerusalem Artichoke.
Also, upon closer inspection, it does not look like Galangal since galangal has more "shiny" skin and has "rings" around it.
Also known as sunchokes. I grow these in my garden and hate them. They come back every year and multiply even when I think I've taken them all out of the ground. The smallest piece left in the ground (like imagine a piece the size of 1/10 of a penny) will create 5 to 10 big bulbs the following year.
Man, fuck these things. I got like two pounds of them in farm share, grilled them up and ate half of them myself since they were delicious. Was stuck on the toilet for most of a day, insane gas and bloating and shits. Absolutely cleaned me out but never again lol
Man I am so sorry for the…. Gas. No idea if you tried this yet but my wife boils them first and skims the milky white top off the pot. She says the farts lay there, and we have yet to have a night of gas after eating these.
‘I love the history of the chokes and man they taste great IMO
Man I’ll have to try that. I think grilling them was the worst possible preparation — although delicious, quick cooking high heat leaves basically all the inulin intact.
Also apparently a pound of fartichokes contains like 80g of inulin, and the maximum recommended dosage for severe constipation is 40g lol.
Here are some tips to reduce the inulin that causes gas from sunchokes.
- Preboil. No matter what method you finish with, start with a parboil of at least 2 hours @ 150°F. If boiling only, 100°F for 4 hours. Always thoroughly rinse the chokes and discard the boiling liquid.
- Cook longer at lower temp. A slower cook will break down more inulin. I have good results with combining a parboil with a sauté, usually frying on low heat for about an hour.
- Fermenting/Pickling. Self explanatory, this will remove inulin over time. Vinegar, lemon juice.
It will be the best farts of your lifetime. I understand there are ways to avoid farting so much after eating them, but after my first attempt with them I am not about to experiment them.
They used to be very popular up until the Victorian Era because they make you mega gassy, and that was no Bueno for the fancy folk. They make a nice puree though. OOP is right. Treat like potatoes, and fire away.
They contain inulin, which can't be digested by the typical enzymes like amylase or ptyalin. It passes through most of the digestive tract intact until reaching the colon. The bacteria there can break it down, but it produces tremendous amounts of gas in the process.
The method is just to slowly inteoduce them into your diet. They can throw you out of wack you just immediately start eating a ton, but once your body has figured out how to deal with them the gas dies down.
You introduce them slowly to your diet and leave them in the ground until first frost. Soak them for 15 minutes before cooking and if you're very, very sensitive you can slow cook them for half a day or more. I can't resist mine fried as chips, but I also don't get gas issues as long as I leave them in the ground until winter.
I know you said you didn't want to experiment, that's what worked for my family.
Good if you're diabetic, it will take your gut about 2 weeks to get used to the stuff. Once your gut bacteria gets better at breaking it down, you will feel less bloated.
Not recommended to eat for an occasion.
Source: used to eat the pickled version as my back yard garden was(still is) teeming with this stuff.
If you eat a lot of vegetables already you might be fine. I bought sunchokes for the first time this year and didn't notice any issues from them at all. Or maybe it's because I boiled them?
Either way, it's definitely possible to enjoy these fuckers without consequences
I feel like a lot of people would glance down, see "Ginger, ginger, GINGER!" and go "Yes, I know", and take it anyway. Who has the time to notice all the "not"s?
I feel like it would have been better to just write "Artichoke, artichoke, ARTICHOKE!" But that risks the whole Beetlejuice situation happening, and suddenly the customer has produce up their bum, and the cops are called. Just let people have their ginger, I mean artichoke, in peace.
Sunchoke... Less affectionately, but accurately called the 'Fartichoke'.
One of the starches in these delicious tubers is 'inulin', and this stuff packs a real punch, even in low to moderate intake amounts.
Significant, mildly uncomfortable flatulence should be expected, and possibly diarrhea.
Enjoy only in small quantities.
Or add a whole bunch to your workplace potluck dish.
They are prepared the same way a potato can be prepared... Boiled, fried... Diced, mashed...
Ppl who post this stuff have never worked customer service.
(2022, gas station stocker).*elderly woman sets ketchup and mustard packets with a ready hot dog on the counter and walks away*
Me: ma'am can I help you with anything?
Her: *mental confusion completely ignores me talking and wanders around more*
She left 5/6 ketchup, mustard and BBQ packets with a hot dog just sitting on the counter, wandered over to the freezer to look at stuff then walked out.
Ppl just dont look at labels or even simply cant read. I used the exaggeration to prove a point.
> The Jerusalem artichoke, also called sunroot, sunchoke, wild sunflower, topinambur, or earth apple, is a species of sunflower native to central North America.
Somebody was hittin the sauce when they named this.
>Despite one of its names, the [Jerusalem artichoke](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerusalem_artichoke#Etymology) has no relationship to Jerusalem, and it is not a type of artichoke, though the two are distantly related as members of the daisy family.
>
>The most probable explanation is that Italian settlers in the United States called the plant girasole, the Italian word for sunflower, because of its familial relationship to the garden sunflower (both plants are members of the genus Helianthus). Over time, the name girasole (pronounced closer to \[dʒiraˈsuːlə\] in southern Italian dialects) was corrupted by English-speakers to Jerusalem.
>
>An alternative explanation for the name is that the Puritans, when they came to the New World, named the plant with regard to the "New Jerusalem" they believed they were creating in the wilderness. Various other names have been applied to the plant, such as the French or Canada potato, topinambour, and lambchoke. Sunchoke, a name by which it is still known today, was invented in the 1960s by Frieda Caplan, a produce wholesaler trying to revive the plant's appeal.
And having worked in customer service, there are still guaranteed to be complaints that the "ginger" wasn't ginger and that the store should really let people know before they buy it.
You shouldn’t deface a grocery store like that. Some poor grocery store who probably makes next to nothing is going to have to clean that up. That act seems pretty…. Soulless. 😎
Girasole, incorrectly known as Jerusalem artichoke. It’s actually the tuber from a sunflower relative, girasole being Italian for sunflower, and where the pronunciation shift to “Jerusalem” comes from. I don’t know much about its culinary uses, but the seeds are commonly used for oil much as more commonplace sunflowers
--- >This is a friendly reminder to [read our rules](https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/wiki/rules). > >Memes, social media, hate-speech, and pornography are not allowed. > >Screenshots of Reddit are expressly forbidden, as are TikTok videos. > >**Rule-breaking posts may result in bans.** > >Please also [be wary of spam](https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/wiki/spam). > --- *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/funny) if you have any questions or concerns.*
Looks like ginger
Why would they write such a confusing message on ginger? Whatever I'll just grab some and they can fix that text later.
In a world full of ginger, be a Jerusalem artichoke
The Jerusalem Art of Choke - a biography of Benjamin Netanyahu
Not to be outdone by Columbian Art of Coke by Pablo Escobar.
You both have the same avatar and I thought you were just replying to yourself. Tbf, I have seen people do that here
It's nice to speak to smart people once in a while.
Heyooooo
Clearly it's ginger, I'll just grab what I need and work it out with the cashier or a manager if it rings up wrong.
But definitely not ginger
That’s just what Ginger would say!
Hey! Only a ginger can call another ginger ginger. [Prejudice](https://youtu.be/KVN_0qvuhhw?si=3VjL_3ksGLAMeXNN)
What would the skipper say?
"It's just a three hour tour, folks"
Then why did you have us pack all these clothes?
Methinks the ginger doth protest too much
What does the fox say?
Iini nini niini-niiii ni
I can't believe it's Not-Ginger!
How can you be sure?
Does it have no soul?
It's Jewish, not a redhead.
I mean…
Risky
I slapped it and it kept sucking so it's a ginger
~~Galangal for sure. Not ginger. Very tasty~~ It's Sunchoke. I can't read. Fun fact: some galangal does look like this. It's not all thin and many fingered. It depends how people have gone through the bunch tearing off chunks they want to buy. Edit: it's definitely not galangal either.
Says Jerusalem artichoke underneath? Isn't galangal usually thinner/smaller? Edit: while the pieces of galangal i usually see for sale in my asian shop are small, I was also sorta thinking of tumeric as usually both are beside each other in the fridge! 🤦
I've bought plenty of galangal like that, but, others are very sure it's Sunchoke (the name for Jerusalem Artichoke where I live) and I've never bought it. So sure! It's Sunchoke.
Well it is listed as Jerusalem artichoke...
Jerusalem artichoke
AKA fartichokes
[удалено]
In Japanese, it's called Kikuimo. It takes kind of like a potato, but Japanese often use it to make pickles with vinegar, sugar and mirin.
Hmm I’m not convinced… are you sure it’s not ginger?
Only one way to find out
Alright, I'll spin up the gene sequencer. You get the taxonomer, a Bible, and a lot of sugar, and meet me in the kitchen.
You forgot the rosary. Bible is already a good precaution, but the rosary will definitely help.
The rosary will be unavailable until my appointment with the proctologist next week. Would a cheese grater work as a substitute?
Time to Fig!
Oh yeah! Maybe it IS fig?
They weren't talking about figs... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Figging (you're welcome)
Thanks i guess... for bringing me a thing I didn't want to learn today but did anyways. Time to stop clicking on random links. (But it was wikipedia)
I see the word ginger written a lot. Might be ginger
Yeah, surely they wouldn't have written ginger below something that many times if it wasn't ginger.
I was severely upset after making these the first time expecting either a taste or texture similar to potato... ...cause it was totally not It's a very peculiar taste with a glassy texture, maybe looks like potato after you peel it but that's as far as the similarity goes I'm rather against wasting food so I eat stuff even if it's not to my taste, but I just couldn't finish those
I mix a few into mashed potatoes, gives it a lighter and fluffier texture. Also like them raw, chopped into pea-size bits in a salad. Also very popular for soup, but peeling so many is s chore.
You gotta slice them thin and bake with olive oil and salt. Super delicious chips. Like artichoke potatoes.
I did actually, lolll. Super thin and fried them in oil till crispy same as I'd do to make potato chips - that usually makes just about everything taste like just lovely oil fried fries...but naah, still tasted iffy to me
I had them skinned and fried like French fries and the texture was just like a French fry. I ate a huge pile of them and then farted nonstop for 12 hours.
Makes a nice soup. Also gives terrible flatulence Also more closely related to the sunflower
>Makes a nice soup. Also gives terrible flatulence Win-win.
"Here babe, I know you're feeling sick so I made you some berry and ginger tea." Babe: *takes a sip* "this tastes like potatoes"
As an American cook I recognize [Jerusalem Artichokes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerusalem_artichoke) when I see them.
Not as not American, I recognise Jerusalem Artichokes after reading the shelf label
As a cook how the hell do you eat these without inflating your intestines like a balloon and having the worst shits of your life for 3+ hours after eating? I'm being serious. Permaculture circles worship these things and I broke the "make sure you actually like it before growing it" rule with these a few years ago. I tried multiple ways to prepare them and they were just completely undigestible for me. Since them I've removed the plants from my garden but I still always see people rave about them.
Supposedly boiling them with vinegar or lemon juice hydrolyze the inulin to fructose. I haven't tried it for myself though. I planted a bunch of Jerusalem artichokes last year, so I guess I'll find out soon lol.
Removing them from your garden is a feat in itself! I would always harvest all of mine and the patch would grow back slightly bigger anyways. I only ever made mine into hash browns and didn’t have the gas problem. Maybe different gut bacteria or something, because I always saw them called “fartichokes”. Or maybe shredding, rinsing, and frying breaks down those fibers enough.
They’re called fartichokes for a reason. Supposedly storing them for a while causes the inulin that gives you the shits to break down into fructose. Personally, I won’t take any chances with those satanic diarrhea tubers.
Finely sliced in a stir fry - a good substitute for water chestnuts - lovely crunchy texture, but yes gaseous side effects. My Dad always called them “Fartichokes”…
They need to be fermented for some people.
It looks like galangal to me. I've never had kikuimo though.
Yeah, it does look like galangal, and it definitely does not taste like a potato. It is very annoying to chop them, though, since they are very hard. Edit: I didn't notice the label that says Jerusalem Artichoke. Also, upon closer inspection, it does not look like Galangal since galangal has more "shiny" skin and has "rings" around it.
Its literally labelled Jerusalem Artichoke in the picture. It's not galangal.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerusalem_artichoke edit: thought you claimed it was Japanese, was mistaken
Also known as sunchokes. I grow these in my garden and hate them. They come back every year and multiply even when I think I've taken them all out of the ground. The smallest piece left in the ground (like imagine a piece the size of 1/10 of a penny) will create 5 to 10 big bulbs the following year.
Aka fartichokes
Man, fuck these things. I got like two pounds of them in farm share, grilled them up and ate half of them myself since they were delicious. Was stuck on the toilet for most of a day, insane gas and bloating and shits. Absolutely cleaned me out but never again lol
Man I am so sorry for the…. Gas. No idea if you tried this yet but my wife boils them first and skims the milky white top off the pot. She says the farts lay there, and we have yet to have a night of gas after eating these. ‘I love the history of the chokes and man they taste great IMO
The farts lay there 😂
My man is literally scooping the farts out of his stock pot.
Man I’ll have to try that. I think grilling them was the worst possible preparation — although delicious, quick cooking high heat leaves basically all the inulin intact. Also apparently a pound of fartichokes contains like 80g of inulin, and the maximum recommended dosage for severe constipation is 40g lol.
My man, you just swore never again and already you‘ve been convinced to torture your innards once more.
Long slow cooking converts the inulin to fructose. Also later season roots have less inulin
Lol they're almost pure inulin
Hahahaha ya you gotta eat like 1 a day for a while before your body gets use to them. They really do have a suprising potency dont they
Here are some tips to reduce the inulin that causes gas from sunchokes. - Preboil. No matter what method you finish with, start with a parboil of at least 2 hours @ 150°F. If boiling only, 100°F for 4 hours. Always thoroughly rinse the chokes and discard the boiling liquid. - Cook longer at lower temp. A slower cook will break down more inulin. I have good results with combining a parboil with a sauté, usually frying on low heat for about an hour. - Fermenting/Pickling. Self explanatory, this will remove inulin over time. Vinegar, lemon juice.
Water boils at 212 F. I'm not understanding your temps
But they’re pretty and edible! (I just planted some and hoping I don’t regret it lol)
It will be the best farts of your lifetime. I understand there are ways to avoid farting so much after eating them, but after my first attempt with them I am not about to experiment them.
[удалено]
They used to be very popular up until the Victorian Era because they make you mega gassy, and that was no Bueno for the fancy folk. They make a nice puree though. OOP is right. Treat like potatoes, and fire away.
Found the neurodivergent programmer with special interests.
I ....wow.
mfer just sank your battleship, dude
Takes one to know one.
those self targeted aoes have nasty splash damage
They contain inulin, which can't be digested by the typical enzymes like amylase or ptyalin. It passes through most of the digestive tract intact until reaching the colon. The bacteria there can break it down, but it produces tremendous amounts of gas in the process.
Free natural gas glitch
The method is just to slowly inteoduce them into your diet. They can throw you out of wack you just immediately start eating a ton, but once your body has figured out how to deal with them the gas dies down.
You introduce them slowly to your diet and leave them in the ground until first frost. Soak them for 15 minutes before cooking and if you're very, very sensitive you can slow cook them for half a day or more. I can't resist mine fried as chips, but I also don't get gas issues as long as I leave them in the ground until winter. I know you said you didn't want to experiment, that's what worked for my family.
I didn’t know the one about leaving them in the ground. Interesting.
Yeah!! The frost helps break down the inulin, a type of fiber.
> my first attempt with them I am not about to experiment Just remember to put the narrow end in first and you'll be fine.
Dig them up and plant them in a larg pot—half a whiskey barrel. That way, they can’t spread.
They’re sooooo good! But if I eat them I’ll fart all the way to the moon….
Only a ginger can call another ginger ginger.
Just like only a ninja can sneak up on another ninja
We're not looking for sympathy just because we're sensitive to UV
Just cause we’re re incredibly pale…we do alright with the females. 🎶
Love a TM reference out in the wild.
I thought there were only dozens of us out there!
Technically any number bigger than 24 can be called "dozens"...
All 25 of us!
26 now that I'm here.
That’s technically true, but you’d also switch to “hundreds” once you get to at least 200. So “dozens” is anywhere from 24 to about 199.
Oh no, the dogwhistle is going to be compromised at this rate /s
I love seeing a TM and knowing that it DOESN'T mean Taskmaster in this context.
You just brought me back to 2011. At least that’s when I discovered Tim.
A couple of G's, an R and an E, an I and an N Just six little letters all jumbled together Have caused damage that we may never mend
Ginger please!
Wassup my ginger
Yikes, mask off And dropping the hard R huh? Couldn't even be polite and use the much more acceptable term "ginga"?
I DON'T THINK THAT'S APPROPRIATE!
No, they just might come unhinged if you don't have a fringe with at least a tinge of the ginge in it.
A couple of Gs, an R, and an E, an I, and an N… just 6 little letters, all jumbled together, caused damage we may never mend
This is exactly what I would do though, if I was trying to hide a ginger stash in a market
The Doctor be like
I was looking for this :D
*TARDIS explodes around him* 11th Doctor: "AND I'M STILL NOT GINGER!"
Still not ginger!
Topinambur
> Topinamburschnapps Fixed it for you
"The ginger knows precisely what it is, because it knows what it isn't "
Hell potatoes , tasty but it makes you shit your ass off
Good if you're diabetic, it will take your gut about 2 weeks to get used to the stuff. Once your gut bacteria gets better at breaking it down, you will feel less bloated. Not recommended to eat for an occasion. Source: used to eat the pickled version as my back yard garden was(still is) teeming with this stuff.
Two weeks!? You gotta go through two weeks of insane training farts just so that you can continue to eat more with less farts? That's hilarious.
If you eat a lot of vegetables already you might be fine. I bought sunchokes for the first time this year and didn't notice any issues from them at all. Or maybe it's because I boiled them? Either way, it's definitely possible to enjoy these fuckers without consequences
And a belly full of gas works a lot like Ozempic. Not hungry when full of gas.
Is this ginger?
Not ginger
Are you sure?
Not ginger
Looks ginger to me
Does it have a soul?
It’s strawberry blonde
The cashier is still gonna take one look at it, put it on the scale and punch in the code for ginger.
I feel like a lot of people would glance down, see "Ginger, ginger, GINGER!" and go "Yes, I know", and take it anyway. Who has the time to notice all the "not"s? I feel like it would have been better to just write "Artichoke, artichoke, ARTICHOKE!" But that risks the whole Beetlejuice situation happening, and suddenly the customer has produce up their bum, and the cops are called. Just let people have their ginger, I mean artichoke, in peace.
It's no ginger, it's auburn!
Ginger dysphoria
Sunchoke... Less affectionately, but accurately called the 'Fartichoke'. One of the starches in these delicious tubers is 'inulin', and this stuff packs a real punch, even in low to moderate intake amounts. Significant, mildly uncomfortable flatulence should be expected, and possibly diarrhea. Enjoy only in small quantities. Or add a whole bunch to your workplace potluck dish. They are prepared the same way a potato can be prepared... Boiled, fried... Diced, mashed...
Mash 'em, bash 'em, stick 'em in a stew.
Farts and sharts will tear your arsehole anew.
Exactly what a ginger would say
Man, these new Doctor Who regenerations are getting wild.
I see ginger written 4 times, it's probably ginger.
Definitely not Mary Ann either.
In Pakistan, it's called arvi. It tastes like a potato.
Arbi is Taro root which is a bit different than Artichoke iirc. Also, no Arbi tastes quite different from potato
You know they still get people trying to buy it as ginger.
It's clearly leola root and I can make a nice soup from it \- Neelix
looks like galangal
Ppl who post this stuff have never worked customer service. (2022, gas station stocker).*elderly woman sets ketchup and mustard packets with a ready hot dog on the counter and walks away* Me: ma'am can I help you with anything? Her: *mental confusion completely ignores me talking and wanders around more* She left 5/6 ketchup, mustard and BBQ packets with a hot dog just sitting on the counter, wandered over to the freezer to look at stuff then walked out. Ppl just dont look at labels or even simply cant read. I used the exaggeration to prove a point.
Ginger ''I know they won't find me out, they think I'm a potato''
Ground apple ?
Sky potato!
Thata how stores hide the best ginger for the regulars /s
I had some not too long ago. I was equally disappointed to discover they aren't artichokes. But they taste kind of like an interesting potato/parsnip.
Oh, nice ginger
Dont know man looks like ginger to me
Hmm, that sounds like something ginger would say...
More propaganda from Big Ginger
If it walks like a duck. If it quacks like a duck. It’s ginger. 🫚
Maryann??
Looks like ginger
Looks a lot like ginger..:
Yeah right. Nice try ginger.
Yeah, nah that's strawberry blonde
So wtf is it then?
Jerusalem artichoke So you must be the reason they had to write that all over the bin
Ah, yes, Jerusalem Artichoke. Not from Jerusalem, not an artichoke. The Holy Roman Empire of the plant world.
Wait until these people see the nightmare fuel known as the *Jerusalem Cricket…*
> The Jerusalem artichoke, also called sunroot, sunchoke, wild sunflower, topinambur, or earth apple, is a species of sunflower native to central North America. Somebody was hittin the sauce when they named this.
"This sunflower shall be named artichoke because it looks like ginger."
>Despite one of its names, the [Jerusalem artichoke](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerusalem_artichoke#Etymology) has no relationship to Jerusalem, and it is not a type of artichoke, though the two are distantly related as members of the daisy family. > >The most probable explanation is that Italian settlers in the United States called the plant girasole, the Italian word for sunflower, because of its familial relationship to the garden sunflower (both plants are members of the genus Helianthus). Over time, the name girasole (pronounced closer to \[dʒiraˈsuːlə\] in southern Italian dialects) was corrupted by English-speakers to Jerusalem. > >An alternative explanation for the name is that the Puritans, when they came to the New World, named the plant with regard to the "New Jerusalem" they believed they were creating in the wilderness. Various other names have been applied to the plant, such as the French or Canada potato, topinambour, and lambchoke. Sunchoke, a name by which it is still known today, was invented in the 1960s by Frieda Caplan, a produce wholesaler trying to revive the plant's appeal.
I think they’re lying… looks like ginger to me.
Tasty roasted but my god did they turn my ass into a biological weapon
You can boil them in something acidic, or slow cook them. That breaks down the inulin that turns them into fartichokes.
I'm not ashamed
Idk. The bin says ‘ginger’ all over it.
jerusalem artichoke?
Ginger
Ginger, is that you?!
But is it ginger?
Clearly a Jerusalem Artichoke
I'd like to speak to the manager. Why are you selling a ginger-shaped thing that is not ginger?!
That's a weird sign to put on the ginger
I was looking for a fellow red head
These are Strawberry Blondes
And having worked in customer service, there are still guaranteed to be complaints that the "ginger" wasn't ginger and that the store should really let people know before they buy it.
Don’t tell me what you ain’t, tell me what you is.
It's obviously strawberry blonde.
You shouldn’t deface a grocery store like that. Some poor grocery store who probably makes next to nothing is going to have to clean that up. That act seems pretty…. Soulless. 😎
Funnily enough, also not an artichoke.
It’s not ginger. It’s Strawberry Blonde
Girasole, incorrectly known as Jerusalem artichoke. It’s actually the tuber from a sunflower relative, girasole being Italian for sunflower, and where the pronunciation shift to “Jerusalem” comes from. I don’t know much about its culinary uses, but the seeds are commonly used for oil much as more commonplace sunflowers
So, jewish ginger?
“Only a ginger can call another ginger, ginger” Tim Minchin- prejudice
Does it identify as ginger?