My love for this vegetable didn't begin in an educational setting, but rather with BTS. Watching the K-pop group make traditional winter Kimchi during the Gimjang, Run BTS! episode pushed me to try the traditional side dish. Nature didn't make this cool looking cabbage, instead it was through human selection.  The great genetic flexibility of a loose, wild mustard weed, known as morphological plasticity, was exploited by ancient farmers over thousands of years of artificial selection, causing it to fold inward and produce a dense, tight head of overlapping leaves. This produced a living anaerobic chamber in addition to being aesthetically pleasing. The cabbage creates a unique haven for the helpful Lactobacillus bacteria to flourish and stifle spoiling by retaining moisture and carbohydrates while totally obstructing oxygen. This common cabbage transformed humanity into its ultimate survival vehicle in a remarkable co-evolutionary bargain, ensuring its global genetic domination and a permanent place in our pop culture by bending its own anatomy to keep human populations fed through harsh winters.