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Now they call it "calabrese" You're right, Rhuby! I think this is primarily followers of St Delia, though, isn't it? How do USns and (non DSA  ) Strine-speakers pronounce Cubby Broccoli's surname, then?
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I pronounce it with a long e on the end. Been around well more than half a century and I never heard it with a long i sound.
But this thread reminded me of a question I have been meaning to ask for some time now, with the question being directed more towards our friends in the UK.
A year or so ago I took Sasha to the library to stock up on reading material (Usually twenty books at a time now!) There was an English children's book which had pictures of things around the household. As I'm driving home Sasha is leafing through the book reading the captions. When she said "pot plant" I corrected her, "Nope, that's a potted plant."
She replied emphatically, "No, Daddy, it's a pot plant." When we stopped at a red light I looked at the book. Sure enough, there was a picture of a plant in a pot and the caption said "Pot plant." What is REALLY curious is that the plant looked suspiciously like cannabis plants I've umm seen in pictures. Yeah, that's it. Never seen one growing in a closet with a grow light on it, of course.
Question for UKrs: Is "pot plant" a term you would use for any plant with its roots in a pot or were the authors having us on?
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Is "pot plant" a term you would use for any plant with its roots in a potAmazingly enough, yes, TEd  You see, we never call the plant with the interesting and distinctive leaves that you've seen in pictures "pot" - it's "grass" or "weed" or "skunk". Um, I believe. In resinous form it's "hash" or "dope", although you do get people talking about "dope plants" just to confuse matters. I've only ever heard USns and misled oldsters (trying to look with it) call it "pot". waiting to be corrected by Rhuby!
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Makes you wonder how in Oz they pronounce fettucini, teriyaki or even kiwi, for that matter.
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how in Oz they pronounce fettucini, teriyaki or even kiwi
Don't have any of those in Oz, do they?
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"Bush Sr.'s favourite vegetable "brocco-lie". A canard. And that's no lie.
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Now they call it "calabrese"
Nah - it's a different vegetable, and trust me on this because I grow both (whatever Delia may or may not say!)
Broccoli is a much taller and leggier plant that continues to stand through much of the winter (with purple and white sprouting forms), and calabrese is a quick-growing summer/autumn plant that is not hardy and grows larger florets that are comparatively like little green cauliflowers.
I love both but they are distinct and different in taste, texture, appearance, aroma, season....
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>Now they call it "calabrese"
Nah - it's a different vegetableAh-hah! It all makes sense. I'd heard fairly recently that broccoli is not the green stuff but the "purple sprouting" stuff, which indeed has a different taste and texture, and is also a rolling-into-Winter veg. I've just sussed that my kids love calabrese, but don't like broccoli. There's useful education.
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Sure, of course it's a different veg - doesn't stop the ignorant and uninitiated from calling "broccoli" (which is , indeed, as you describe it) "calabrese" - nor does it stop greengrocers (or the supermarket dumb version of that honorable trade) from labelling it so. And, as to "pot" as a name, shona - I've not heard that used since mid-70s, I think. "Blow" was popular for a while, but I don't think it is now. I don't currently mix with anyone who is likely to inform me - life do get boring, don't it?
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you live an ocean a way.. but i am up todate on current terms, and perhaps, not recently unfamiliar with some products from the Hemp family..
(but who knows this is the internet, and i could be a dog...)
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