• Sadbutdru@sopuli.xyz
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        Garlic is so easy to grow they’d probably figure it out just by random luck. Drop a clove somewhere with a bit of soil and water - new plant a few weeks later.

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          Ah, but they “took” it - presumably to their world where who knows if it’ll grow? Of course, there’s a 50/50 chance it could grow as big as a pumpkin…

          Oh, well. There’s always the fact they didn’t get the butter.

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    The problem with this is like humans are adapted to eat a moderate amount of garlic. Most earth critters can’t eat it. No idea if it would be edible to aliens but the odds would be on “no” because its likely chiral molecules would render key parts of any earth organism inedible or dangerous to eat for an alien life form

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      1 month ago

      So either the aliens learn to appreciate the awesomeness of garlic or we kill those filthy aliens it’s a win-win.