Remember the vegetable hotmix guy? Well he’s back with another video boosting some of earth’s bounty, this time jazzing up the artichoke, a vegetable parents don’t try to get their kids to eat because they themselves don’t understand them.

I guess they’re OK but every time I have an artichoke I feel I’m being punked — so much vegetable and so little is actually edible? And you kind of do need to deep fry or marinade or slather in buttery substance to enjoy it.  Oh well. Patrick Gallo is super-psyched about them and I’ll take that positive energy and scrape at it with my teeth until I can glean little bits of nourishment.

After the jump, watch the funky artichoke hotmix the world has been waiting for if the world knew it was waiting for it:

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