Not quite on topic but I had an amusing chat with a nearby plot holder about globe artichokes a few days back.
I grow those mini sweet corn that get picked when about the size of a pork sausage. I mentioned this and suggested that although it was a nice vegetable, for the area of ground used the yield was perhaps the lowest out of everything I grow.
Not so he countered. Globe artichokes are worse. Five feet tall, four feet wide and you'd probably get fifteen to twenty chokes in a season. They look big but only about ten percent is edible.
But having observed how much we each liked the flavour of our chosen "wasteful" vegetable we declared it a score draw.