95% inedible

>95% inedible
>the 5% edible portion has practically no flavor
>is stupid looking
>takes forever to prep
>will go brown and nasty if you so much as look at it wrong

why are artichokes so fucking gay

Stuffed artichokes are pretty damn good

They're a flower.
And they're fucking delicious.

It's great in pasta with salmon.

I'm 95% useless, maybe I'm part artichoke.

% inedible
>>the 5% edible
This applies to many things, though.
Cinnamon for starters.

In my country, we're crazy for artichoke. We use them a metric fucktonne and do all sorts of odd shit with them. One of the stranger ones is make a liqueur of them.
Anyway, we call that type of artichoke in the OP "French." They're only good for steaming and scraping the leaves with your teeth. Then eating the heart and stem. I wouldn't say they're flavourless since they're most certainly not (they're fucking delicious, actually), but French artichokes annoying to eat because it takes so long to get through one that it always goes completely cold before you even get to the heart at all. Complete waste of time, IMO.
One of our native types (and I believe our most used) is long and slender rather than round like the French artichoke. We cut the tips off and scoop out the choke. Thereafter, the whole thing is edible. Takes me all of 5 minutes (literally) for me to prep a dozen of them and maybe a minute or so to eat one (since the whole thing is edible, once prepared and cooked) but takes me aeons to eat a fucking French artichoke.

what is your artichoke called dude.

We call it artichoke.

In English? No idea. We just call them our native word for 'artichoke' and specify the round ones as 'French artichokes.' I'm from Italy, if that helps.
We do have a different name for another type of artichoke. It's called 'cardone' which literally means "big chard" because it looks a lot like chard (more like celery, really). Save stuffing them, anything regular artichokes can do, cardone can do but they require little to no prepping. Only issue is that they take forever to cook.

We grow a fuckton of artichokes here in NorCal, and we also eat cardones. I'd never had cardones till I moved out here but I LOVE them, and eat them constantly when they're in season.

cynarine

All the deliciousness of articoke with even less prep work involved. In my area of Italy, we make something like a crustless quiche out of them. I've called the dish a souffle here before but people bitched at me about it say that souffle can't have chunky shit in it. idklol. We call it souffle.

Boil cardone to halfway done then drain.
Cook in butter; meanwhile, beat some egg yolks cheese, flour and pepper together.
Temper the yolk mixture with the softened, par-cooked cardone.
In a clean bowl with a clean whisk, beat egg whites to stiff peaks then fold into the cardone mixture, leaving some out for topping.
Pour cardone mixture into a baking dish and top with remaining egg white and bake until browned on top and puffy.
Serve as a side to roasts of some kind. Also potatoes.

i love canned artichokes but dont know or care about them outside of that

got a picture of it?

>mfw i turned a whole fucking case of baby artichokes but they still oxidize after a fuck ton of citric acid

worst part about artichokes is they fucking stab you, and are filled with shitty purple hair when they flower and also make anything you touch taste bitter so you have to wear gloves

holy fuck artichokes trigger tf out of me

>will go brown and nasty if you so much as look at it wrong
Put lemon on it while you prep then boil it in water + vinegar you fucking dumbass. You're meant to marinate a bunch of them in oil/peppercorns and put it in your salad. Your existence is 100% useless

that sounds fucking disgusting.

That sounds awesome! I will definitely make that next time I buy cardone. Thanks for the recipe.

It's literally what you buy in the store when you buy a jar of artichokes you fucking pleb.

bro if your eating canned artichokes i dont think you should be calling me a pleb, faggit

Are you mentally challenged?

pic related is the only thing artichokes are good for, but it’s a very good thing

Fried artichokes are bretty gud
But fuck the purple shit inside some of them those are moderately sharp

If you've never had this, I truly pity you. Artichokes are not only absolutely delicious, they also serve a higher, godly purpose. Diabetics know what I mean.

Jebane karczochy, they're my kryptonite, and I don't mean that in the good sense.
I have terrible allergic reactions if I as far as lick one, I found out the hard way by puking my brains out and losing 70% sight for like a day or two.

10/10 taste

The difference is cinnamon is a spice not a proper food.