There Are no Vegetables in DayZ.

[spartacusrex 88]

I like to think there might be vegetables in the canned Spaghetti...

[nettles 396]

I like to think there might be vegetables in the canned Spaghetti...

 

Tomato sauce? Fruit.  Pasta? Not a chance.  Even rice is a seed, berries are fruit too. 

[pilgrim* 3514]

Tomato sauce? Fruit.  Pasta? Not a chance.  Even rice is a seed, berries are fruit too. 

 

• Vegetable: a nutritional and culinary term that denotes any part of a plant that is commonly consumed by humans as food
• Traditionally, Vegetable can also be used to designate the entire Plant Kingdom

   

• Any plant whose fruit, seeds, roots, tubers, bulbs, stems, leaves, or flower parts are used as food, as the tomato, bean, beet, potato, onion, asparagus, spinach, or cauliflower.

   

• A plant
• A usually herbaceous plant (as the cabbage, bean, or potato) grown for an edible part that is usually eaten as part of a meal; also:  such an edible part

  etc

Edited August 22, 2014 by pilgrim

[pillock 850]

Farming is going to be introduced soon.

 

However, it probably won't lead to us being able to eat vegetables, since they probably ought to take some significant time to grow, before which they will doubtless have been wiped by dodgy persistence mechanics that don't work yet, or else vandalised to destruction by some fucker who happens across your seed patch before it's ready to harvest.

Edited August 22, 2014 by Pillock

[Bigbadchuck 97]

All I want is some crisco and flour in game so I can fry that delicious zucchini and tomatoes

Edited August 22, 2014 by Bigbadchuck

[nettles 396]

 

• Vegetable: a nutritional and culinary term that denotes any part of a plant that is commonly consumed by humans as food
• Traditionally, Vegetable can also be used to designate the entire Plant Kingdom

   

• Any plant whose fruit, seeds, roots, tubers, bulbs, stems, leaves, or flower parts are used as food, as the tomato, bean, beet, potato, onion, asparagus, spinach, or cauliflower.

   

• A plant
• A usually herbaceous plant (as the cabbage, bean, or potato) grown for an edible part that is usually eaten as part of a meal; also:  such an edible part

  etc

 

 

 Technically. 

[cartire 55]

The origin of the term vegetable is no longer viable. 

 

Its very simple actually.  And this is the correct way to decipher between fruits and vegetables.

 

Fruit - The part of the plant that contains the seeds. 

 

Vegetable - The rest of the plant to include Leaves, Stalks, Branches and Roots.  So stuff like Broccolli, Celery, Cabbage, Potatoes, Beets, and so on. 

[BadAsh (DayZ) 1513]

Onions and carrots would definitely make sense to include. They would grow wild from abandonded vegetable gardens and keep well in the dirt, ready to be dug up using a hoe, spade or pitchfork. Some sort of cabbage I imagine wouldn't be out of place either.

[Nocturnal (DayZ) 85]

strictly speaking, a vegetable is anything that's not basically a swollen ovary.

 

Lol. Fruit sounds far less appealing when you describe it that way.

[pilgrim* 3514]

The origin of the term vegetable is no longer viable.

 

wtf

The current up-to-date term 'vegetable' as defined and used in our language is viable of course.

Do people really have problems with " what is a vegetable ? "

There is a perfectly good explanation of what is a "vegetable" in the sense you mean at wikipedia-vegetable

 

In the section titled:

Examples of different parts of plants used as vegetables

there is a list of all the different parts of plants that can be used as vegetables.

 

Amazing:

 

leaves, buds, stems, whole-plant sprouts, tubers, roots, bulbs, fruits, rhizome, leaf sheaths, flower-buds ...

 

all this stuff is classed as a vegetable if it is prepared and eaten as a vegetable

I mean this "technically", and I also mean it in the completely conversational sense, and according to standard and accepted usage, and its universally agreed application in culinary vocabulary, ya know ? and it's precise dictionary definition, whatever dictionary you choose.

 

here are some fun examples:

broccoli are flower buds

leeks are leaf-sheaths

brussels sprouts are buds

asparagus are stem shoots

potatoes are tubers

carrots are roots

onions are bulbs

tomatoes, peppers, green beans, and corn are fruits

 

these are ALL used as vegetables

 

Check it out. Enjoy yourselves.

Now that this is cleared up, I agree with BadAsh

 

xx

Edited August 23, 2014 by pilgrim

[blowurselfup 54]

Don't forget to eat one vitamin daily B) for your serving of vegetables

Edited August 22, 2014 by blowurselfup

[pillock 850]

Onions and carrots would definitely make sense to include. They would grow wild from abandonded vegetable gardens and keep well in the dirt, ready to be dug up using a hoe, spade or pitchfork. Some sort of cabbage I imagine wouldn't be out of place either.

 

Digging the ground with a pitch-fork is a ball-ache. You'd be better off using a machete or an axe, to be honest.

[Yano (DayZ) 102]

No wonder my characters constipated !!! We need Roughage !!

[jubeidok 495]

What are you talking about? There are nothing but vegetables in DayZ.

[BadAsh (DayZ) 1513]

Digging the ground with a pitch-fork is a ball-ache. You'd be better off using a machete or an axe, to be honest.

 

I can see you have never grown your own potatoes. Forks are the best tools for harvesting root vegetables by hand.

[hellcat420 212]

it doesnt bother me, i like to eat dead animal flesh, not rabbit food.

[JPWiser 251]

Any fruit or vegetable not growing on a tree would be rotten an inedible anyways... I think it's silly we find pristine fruit laying around in the hot sun with no power anywhere...

[Whyherro123 2283]

On a slightly related note, the "Three Sisters" method of agriculture is pretty much the go-to way of feeding yourself long-term in a TSC situation. Corn, beans, and pumpkins planted together in a big mound. The plants support each other, add nutrition to the soil, and provide all the the vitamins and minerals you need. Round out the system with potatoes ( a crop with substantial starch content, can grow in "waste land", where other crops cannot, and has an almost exponential population growth curve if you know what you are doing), and you have agriculture.

 

I would like to see this implemented eventually.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Sisters_(agriculture)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potatoe

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raised-bed_gardening

[Katana67 2907]

Interesting, never thought about it! Some harvestable/growable corn, carrots, onions, potatoes, all that jazz would be neat!

 

And yeah, though I don't really care that it's supposedly unrealistic to find fresh fruit (ostensibly, even though we don't know the timeline) some time after an apocalypse...

 

 

I think food/drink needs to move markedly away from loot, and more into foraging/horticulture. A can of food/drink in a supermarket should be a very rare and lucky occurrence, if only for making horticulture/hunting/foraging a useful endeavor.

[R0B3RTF1SH3R 66]

actually. technically your wrong

 

animal , vegetable , mineral. 

 

 

[q.S Sachiel 470]

Lol. Fruit sounds far less appealing when you describe it that way.

 

and most 'mushrooms/fungus' you eat are really the sexual organ (more or less) of the organism.

mmmmmmmmmmmmmm fruiting bodies...

Well, it's the same case when you put your nose in a flower really.  Had a girl once that was shocked to know that flowers were sex organs, and became worryingly excited that 'bees are having sex with plants'. 

 

Such a sweet girl.  She was also shocked to find that her father's horse didn't like eating chicken sandwiches and was a vegetarian.

Edited August 23, 2014 by q.S Sachiel

[pillock 850]

I can see you have never grown your own potatoes. Forks are the best tools for harvesting root vegetables by hand.

 

Bleh.

 

I was being pedantic about the difference between pitchforks and garden forks. But it's not worth pursuing. Sorry to have bothered you.