Last weekend, my girlfriend and I went for a wander down Wilmslow Road, aka the Curry Mile, in Rusholme, Manchester. We passed a vegetable market and decided to buy a few things for dinner. We got some onions, aubergines and okra, and then spotted something that looked like this:

From Wikimedia Commons, by FlyingToaster

It looked amazing, like the sort of vegetable you’d expect to encounter just after landing on an alien world. Continue reading →