Originally published at: Here's some Ginseng root pareidolia to brighten your day | Boing Boing
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Oh come on, half the ginseng looks like the map of the sensorimotor cortex (with exaggerated mouth gape and fingers etc. not so much the text labels) and the other half looks like fonts that never took off. Is it unlucky to slice it long ways into Thai dishes? (Okay, just despaired of the French Onion Soup 
bowls with no superoleophobic layer, s.t. the baked hard cheese is lost (unless you’re super quick and bring your phone opening spatula to supper) to sticking on the bowl for…well, 12 h soak. Haven’t shopped for dishes for Thai Food.)
Ah, but for a dinner spoon that picks fancy locks (oh that accounts for 5h dinner) I’m stuck on my teefs with fiber, what a mess?
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that’s not surprising really. plants on the whole prefer mathematics over literature.
there’s mums of course, but mums the … well you know
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Ginseng (or Insam 인삼 人參 in Korean, where a whole lot of it is exported) is named such because of its humanoid (人) appearances.
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That’s interesting. 人参 means “carrot” in Japanese.
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I missed the cutoff for comments in the Ginger People mascot post: Enjoy a kick of ginger, a settled stomach, and an absolute abomination of a mascot | Boing Boing
I just wanted to note that the Ginger People company’s offices have an impressive giant statue of the mascot out front as you can see from google street view:
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