What does ginger mean when cut into four slices?

This is a cold joke. The answer is that when ginger is cut into four pieces, it becomes stiff, stiff, stiff, stiff.

Ginger (scientific name: Zingiber officinale Rosc.) is a perennial herbaceous plant of the Zingiberaceae family. A rhizome with yellow-green flowers and a pungent fragrance. The plant height is 0.5-1 meter; the rhizome is thick, multi-branched, aromatic and spicy. The leaves are lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, hairless, and stalkless; the ligule is membranous. The total pedicel is 25 cm long; the spike-like inflorescence is cone-shaped; the bracts are oval, light green or light yellow at the edge, with a small tip at the top. The calyx tube is about 1 cm long; the corolla is yellow-green, and the lobes are lanceolate; the central lobe of the lip is oblong-ovate.