It's interesting to read this while being in conflict at work. It escalated to stage 3 for no apparent reason, and I retreated into stage 4. Some people who have come to my defense have escalated to stage 5 and 6 in how they talk, which is interesting to see with this chart.

I'm hoping we can manage this with mediation still. We'll see.

I can't wait to see the look on OPs face when he finds out veal is young beef and lamb is young mutton

I try my best to be a peaceful person who comes up with win-win solutions.

I desperately want my obnoxious and condescending coworker to lose face anyway.

Good sir, you may have just cracked a case I have been trying to solve since high school

You might like a 5 minute video called Robbers Cave conflict experiment.

not just how they are processed

the same species of plant, but not the same variety

Camellia Sinensis plant

We only get the gherkins in the UK, but that might be because we tend to go more for chutneys than pickled vegetables. We have pickled gherkins, pickled beetroot and pickled onions, and that's about it.

There’s a whole bunch of different varieties, gherkin is one. I’m actually pretty sure dill pickles are gherkins pickled with dill specifically, but I’m already the nerd correcting people about cucumbers vs pickles and I don’t need to get weirder right now.

Gherkins, you mean? I believe they're what's known as 'dill pickles' in the US.

Oh! This’ll be the fourth time I get to explain this on Reddit!

Cucumbers can be pickled, but the pickles you’re used to are actually separate varieties, not just small cucumbers. A raw pickle (like the california bush pickle for example) doesn’t actually taste the same as a cucumber, in my opinion.

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Indian yellow checking in and laughing.

False. It can be a brew. Or a concoction. Or perhaps a tisane.

But not a TEA

Dethblud is correct. It is a tisane. Not a tea.

My family had one of his books or records and I thought he was great when I was 13 (1968). Then I took a poetry class in high school...

As a non-american I am always amazed at what passes for a pickle here (though I admit it is technically a pickle since it's made the same way as other pickles)

You should have a read of The Chimp Paradox, it really helps with understanding of a lot of human behaviour.

Worked at a tea shop chain once and had to memorize a bunch of facts about the different types of tea and their benefits. Tea is wild, man. Loose leaf ftw

Or cauliflower and brussels sprouts.

Ahhh. But then I sound all fancy being like I’m having some mint infusion. Although even in this comment it has grown on me

Im a wot??

It's in the article, even.

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Are you Stone Cold Steve Austin?