Who knew?

[ashling]

according to a post on FB:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Fiber-Does-The-Body-Good/246058242197224

Fiber Does The Body Good

Who knew?!? I didn't !!!
Flip the bell peppers over to check their gender. The ones with four bumps are female and those with three bumps are male. The female peppers are full of seeds, but sweeter and better for eating raw and the males are better for cooking.

[Wounded Bear]

1. Geez.....now's it's gay vegetables?!?!...nt

[In_The_Wind]

2. Great. Now the produce dept will think I'm a perv!

[Xyzse]

3. Woah...

That's new to me.
Learning something new every day...
-high fives-

[jakeXT]

4. Looks like an April question

In short, no! When I saw your question I immediately emailed David Karp. He is a pomologist with UC Riverside and writes the Market Watch column for the LA Times. He explained, “The supposition that there are male and female peppers is a common canard, but untrue. Peppers grow from flowers that have both male and female parts. The fruits do not have a gender.”
http://blogs.kcrw.com/goodfood/2013/04/ask-evan-is-it-true-that-you-can-tell-the-gender-of-a-bell-pepper-by-counting-the-number-of-bumps-on-the-bottom/

[ashling]

6. Due to the glare on my monitor

I thought it read that Karp was a pornologist.

[jakeXT]

7. rn = m I could see that.....

A person who not only possesses and watches porn, but lives his/her life style with all unpure thoughts.
I slept with three gay interracial midget porn Dvd's, my
blow up doll "Marge", and a sheep today, said the Pornologist.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Pornologist

[ashling]

8. Add a new entry to that:

Pepperporn, pepperpornologist

[CBGLuthier]

5. Uhhm, That is not how plants work

All fruits are seed carriers. That is the only purpose of fruits. Male plants in non-hermaphroditic species do not produce fruits. Bell peppers are hermaphroditic.



http://www.helium.com/items/1996863-the-difference-between-three-bottomed-bell-peppers-and-four-bottomed-bell-peppers

[Rhiannon12866]

9. Really?! I've always said I learn something new on DU every day...

From now on, I'll be checking my peppers more closely...