stackyFACTSYou can't go into the wilderness and find wild broccoli. It's not natural. Centuries ago, overly ambitious farmers took a completely normal wild mustard plant and selectively bred it until it mutated into the miniature green trees we force children to eat today. It is literally a man-made botanical Frankenstein.
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