[Jamestown1630]

You also have to buy the right eggplant. There are “males” and “females”, and you want ‘dots (male), not slots (female)’. The so-called ‘females’ have lots more seeds, and are more bitter.

https://aliceswintersong.com/2008/07/10/choosing-the-best-eggplant-boy-or-girl/

https://food-recipes4u2oku.blogspot.com/2018/01/eggplant-escabeche-second-best-way-to.html

[FamiliarFace]

I never knew that but I think I must very often pick males, quite by accident.

[Albion Wilde]

Male and female moolinyan—who knew? That is extremely helpful advice! (“Moolinyan” is the Sicilian dialect word for the classical Italian word “melanzane” = eggplant.

It is also a slang word for persons of African heritage, sometimes shortened to “moolie”. You can hear it used by the pizza shop guys in Spike Lee’s film, Do the Right Thing.)