Can This Bizarre Myth About Eggplants Help You Pick The Best Tasting One?

According to the Farmer’s Almanac, there is a difference between male and female eggplants, and here’s what they look for: “To differentiate between male and female eggplants, inspect the flower end,” the site says. “The male has a small, round, smooth end; the female has an irregular, less smooth end.” Additionally, “male eggplants have fewer seeds,” they write, “and are less likely to be bitter.”

Though I was prepared to accept the Farmer’s Almanac version of reality, I kept looking and discovered that it’s one of very few places that corroborates the story of the gendered eggplant.