Has anyone ever heard of "French artichokes"?
At the store today, they had both normal-looking artichokes I am familiar with (pictured left) and these other artichokes that just look like they're a couple of days closer to blooming. They were calling these "French Artichokes" (right). I'd never seen that before. Some cursory searching around google images doesn't raise anything called French Artichokes, and I'm wondering if you've ever heard that phrase, or seen these guys for sale.
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PS Picture is small, so hard to tell, but the one on the right also looks like it might have been trimmed.
It would be quite a marketing gimmick for a Chilean grocery story to go out and genetically engineer their own artichoke cultivar. But I guess anything's possible?
Thanks for the better photo. Looks pretty normal in the larger close-up photo. But/and closer to blooming, as you said.
Maybe my first guess - a marketing ploy - was tough on the store. Didn't know they were Chilean. Maybe it's a convention of what they call that vegetable, perhaps to distinguish it as an imported cultivar.