I've read that male sweet bell peppers have 3 lobs. Female have 4. Not sure what to make of this.

[Siwsan]

I picked this one out of my garden, this morning.

[Generic Brad]

1. Male lobless claims are up

[mr_lebowski]

2. AFAIK, fruits don't have genders, they're just seed carriers ... and those seeds can be for either

gender ... I would think anyway. Maybe there's some exceptions to that but it doesn't intuitively make sense from an evolutionary perspective.

[Siwsan]

3. The 4 lobed peppers contain far more seeds. I think that is why they 'gender' them.

I will say, that multi-lobed orange pepper was pretty well stocked with seeds. It's now stewing, along with the tomatoes I picked.

[Mike 03]

4. I was told this is true by a woman at Walmart who was a Trumper

It's a long story, but we agreed to disagree but liked each other before we knew we had totally opposite opinions on politics, so we went back to talking about other things. It turned out she was the granddaughter of a farmer and grew up on a farm. She said that the male peppers make for better eating raw. Her grandfather taught her this. You could tell that this was the most important relationship in her life and that she misses him.

[Siwsan]

5. That's what the local market farmer told me, too.

That particular specimen is currently stewing with some tomatoes and onions.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

6. Oh, dear.

Your bullshit detector should have buzzed loudly at that. Do a quick Google on the topic.

That's one of those stupid things that shows up on the internet and people don't bother to fact-check.

Fact-checking is always a good idea.

[Siwsan]

7. Thank you for pointing out my grievous shortcomings and inadequacies

It certainly helps the general situation.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

8. You are welcome.

And oh, this silliness of pepper gender has been discussed here before.

[Siwsan]

9. Among my innumerable failings is perspective on the innocuous

Honestly, not everything has to be a debate. But if you feel better, then bless your heart.

[fleur-de-lisa]

10. You are nicer than I am.

That was completely unnecessary. Why do people have to be jerks, especially on DU?

[Siwsan]

11. Thank you! I'm working on my Karma

I just don't get the need to be insulting. Especially about something so benign as sweet pepper lobes!