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Glamour

A casual introduction. 你好世界!

Let’s talk about artichokes

The artichoke is mentioned as a garden plant in the 8th century BC by Homer and Hesiod. The naturally occurring variant of the artichoke, the cardoon, which is native to the Mediterranean area, also has records of use as a food among the ancient Greeks and Romans. Pliny the Elder mentioned growing of carduus in Carthage and Cordoba.

He holds him with a skinny hand, ‘There was a ship,’ quoth he. ‘Hold off! unhand me, grey-beard loon!’ An artichoke, dropt he.

--Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Other foods worth mentioning

1. Carrots
2. Celery
3. Tacos
   • Soft
   • Hard
4. Cucumber

Things to eat today

• Carrots
• Ramen
• Currywurst

Power levels of the aforementioned foods

Name	Power	Comment
Carrots	9001	It’s over 9000?!
Ramen	9002	Also over 9000?!
Currywurst	10000	What?!

Currying Artichokes

Here’s a bit of code in Haskell, because we are fancy. Remember that to compile Haskell you’ll need ghc.

module Main where

import Data.Function ( (&) )
import Data.List ( intercalculate )

hello :: String -> String
hello s =
    "Hello, " ++ s ++ "."

main :: IO ()
main =
    map hello [ "artichoke", "alcachofa" ] & intercalculate "\n" & putStrLn

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Alcachofa, if you were wondering, is artichoke in Spanish.