Medieval Vegetables

If you are interested in veggies you may like this youtube clip (I did). It describes the development of vegetables under the rather sensationalist title " 7 BANNED Medieval Vegetables Big Agriculture Wants To Erase"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiF8wggfVBo

It explains why we no longer go to the store for skirret, good king henry, alexanders, Scorzonera, Rampion, Salola soda (commonly called Agretti or Burill) and Orach (also called mountain spinach).

The channel looks like AI muck. They publish every two days?

In re the vegetables themselves, if you read the comments -- the sensible ones, not the argumentative ones -- they indicate that a number of these things are "an acquired taste," meaning that it's a better use of your limited garden space to grow something nicer to eat.

The use of the word "banned" is simply inflammatory and inaccurate.

Attributing the decline in popularity of these vegetables to modern agriculture -- which is what the video does, over and over -- is a suspect attribution because these plants fell out of favor in the 1600s and 1700s while large combines (e.g.) did not appear until the 1800s (and diesel engines did not exist until 1897).

So, all in all, this is clickbait.

While I agree that is it presented in a way that is obviously click-bait, I found some of the info about the various species interesting enough to post it. Hard to get away from that sort of presentation (and the too obvious use of AI) these days. I have to wonder when it will occur to people that doing this sort pf presentation with a human being and a script will receive a better reception than with AI.

I hate AI in Google these days - it often simply gets thing wrong!

If you mean that you'd like to post some information about medieval cuisine, that's fine. IMNSHO, this was not it.