My spouse picked these up at a food bank and thought they were beets (they weren't marked), but we’re not sure. It’s pretty black, rather than the red or purple I’m used to seeing in a beet.
I’m also kind of wondering if it might be a radish of some sort—I honestly have no idea.
My spouse thought it was a beet gone bad, but I’m not so sure. It’s very firm and doesn’t smell rotten or anything, only earthy.
by The_Big_Yunit
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That is a Black Spanish Radish
Black radish!
Giant puffball?
I got black radishes from the farmer’s market once. I tried eating them raw. They were the hottest radish I have ever tasted, like inedibly hot.
I’ve since figured out that if you cook radishes those chemicals break down and you’re left with a mild cabbagey-tasting root vegetable. If I find these again I’ll try them in a Japanese curry or something.
Black Spanish radish. They can be spicy. Radishes are good cooked though, and it takes the heat out of them
A rotten lime?
Is it white and crisp on the inside? We call it rammenas, a radish closely related to daikon.
That’s a beetabaga.
yes look like Black Radish- should be pretty hot-we used them as a horseradish replacement not the same but it worked
Turn on some skrillex and see if you drop it.
(I’ll see my millenial ass out of here)
Yep, Spanish spicy…