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but who knows this is the internet, and i could be a dog... A sniffer dog, perhaps, that can't help but take work home. 
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Parm my French, but what the heck is Calabrese (or calabrese, I guess)?
mav's description of it gives me an idea what it looks like - do we have this Italian-surnamed veggie in the US? If so, what do we call it? If kids who don't like broccoli do like calabrese, I gotta get some onto our family meal rotation.
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i am thinking that maybe they are talking about brocoli rabe-- vs broccoli. (calabrese is brocoli rabe? or calabrese is broccoli? who knows!)
Broccoli has big, tight, heads of flower buds..and thick stalks.. (that can be pealed, and eaten as well.. )
brocoli-rabe looks like broccoli that is anorexic... it is thin stalks, with some big green leaves, and thin, flowerbuds.. it looks more like a spinach than a broccoli.
while both are members of the same family, they are very different... (as different as cauliflower is from cabbage!) they look different, they have different growing times, and the taste very different.. someone should go find some pictures of these things.. since clearly, we have only a vague idea of what we are all talking about!
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Main Entry: broccoli rabe
Pronunciation: -"räb
Function: noun
Etymology: perhaps modification of Italian broccoli di rapa, literally, flowering tops of the turnip
Date: 1976
: a garden brassica (Brassica rapa ruvo) that is related to the turnip and produces edible leafy branching stalks and compact clusters of yellow florets -- called also broccoli raab \-"r@b, -"rab\, rapini
calabrese
A type of broccoli bearing clusters of blue-green to dark-green flower buds.
(Italian, Calabrian, from Calabria)
formerly known as etaoin...
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or even kiwi
Don't have any of those in Oz, do they?
Are you kiddin' me? [rolleyes] We got so many Kiwis over here, we just can't get rid of 'em. Want some? Going cheap?
[running-away-and-hiding-behind-sjm -e]
And here was I thinking you were a fish, not a chicken!
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>We got so many Kiwis over here, we just can't get rid of 'em. Want some? Going cheap?
Around 400,000 at last count. In the immortal words of the late, and largely unlamented Zildian PM Rob Muldoon, "NZers who move to Oz raise the average IQ of both countries."
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Around 400,000 at last count.
Geez, is that all? It feels like so much more than that.
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>Geez, is that all? It feels like so much more than that.
Wishful thinking.
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[running-away-and-hiding-behind-sjm -e]
And here was I thinking you were a fish, not a chicken! Depends what's for dinner. Thought for the day: if chickens could fly they wouldn't be renowned for running away. 
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