What a stunning looking vegetable! I am 42 and saw one for the first time last night in our newly refurbished Morrison’s.

Yes I ahve, it’s been around for years. Lovely stuff.

otherwise known as caucoli 🙂

did you know that it was a fine example of naturally occuring fractals?

Nice innit? Like eating a broccoli Mandelbrot Set.

mmmm mathetables

We call it ‘space broccolli’

refurbished Morrison’s

We’re all middleclass now 🙂

Priced at £2.99 – so yes – very middle class veg’.

I’m going to loot my first one and if I like it, I’ll buy the next ones 😉

We call it “trippy broccoli”, it seems a shame to chop it up but it is very good.

Priced at £2.99 – so yes – very middle class veg’.

*spits tea* Pfffftt.. Hoooooooowwwwmuch??

We only had one because it was in our veg box and I think that is a bit extravagant at less than a tenner for home delivery of a small box of 8 organic veg.

Must just be in season.

£2.99 though!! Novelty tax methinks.

Got some at local (Reading) farmers market- £1.

Yes only had it in the riverford box but it is fractalastic

Got some for christmas, tasted much like normal brocolli, but a bit “creamier”.
Love the patterns on it. Can you imagine serving that up to potheads? They’d just be sat there staring at it for hours!

The ‘B’ in ‘Benoît B. Mandelbrot’ stands for ‘Benoît B. Mandelbrot’

or it stands for ‘Broccolli’

I forget which.

maccruiskeen – Member
The ‘B’ in ‘Benoît B. Mandelbrot’ stands for ‘Benoît B. Mandelbrot’

or it stands for ‘Broccolli’

I forget which.

🙂 Excellent

The ‘B’ in ‘Benoît B. Mandelbrot’ stands for ‘Benoît B. Mandelbrot’

Very geeky but good 🙂

spits tea* Pfffftt.. Hoooooooowwwwmuch??

Does that offend your middle class sensibilities? That organic veg box (working class edition) must look good value this week!

I’m going to stop buying it now I know you can get it in Morrissons for that little.

£2.99 though!! Novelty tax methinks

Maybe its Hausdorff dimension is 2.99 so the geeks at Morrisons had to set the price accordingly.

EDIT – Blimey – it turns out that ordinary Broccoli’s Hausdorff dimension is 2.66, so not that for off.

Does that offend your middle class sensibilities?

No at all, it offends my “paying a reasonable price for a vegetable” sensibilities.

That organic veg box (working class edition) must look good value this week!

That was kind of my point: our terribly middle-class locally-sourced home-delivered eco-friendly organic FairTrade knitted-tofu veg box is already pretty expensive, but still cheap in comparison.

I really don’t know why the Morrsion’s buyers have made the decision to stock this. The store in question is in Salford where this:

is considered fresh veg!