• Cabbages are deduct from the baseless mustard plant of the Mediterranean region , and have been pop since ancient fourth dimension . Cato the Elder praise the cabbage for its many medicinal uses .
• Cabbages are highly alimentary , containing tumid amounts of Vitamin C , vitamin M and character . That and its low calorie tally is why some people utilise cabbage on weighting - loss diets .
• However , the cabbage is also known to have a sure unsuitable gastric side event . As Nicholas Culpeper said inA Complete Herbal(1653 ) " Cabbages are extremely windy , whether you take them as essence or as medicament , as blowy meat as can be eaten , unless you eat bag - pipework or bellows . "
• Remember " freedom tyke " ? That was n’t the first time the name of one of our foods has been seek to be modify because of political ardour . During World War I , Americans renamed sauerkraut " impropriety pelf . "
• No one recognize exactly how theCabbagetownneighborhood in Atlanta got its name , though stories include the melodic theme that the original poor Scotch - Irish resident physician ( workers at the nearby cotton wool mill ) would spring up cabbages in their front yards , and that the smell of cooked cultivated cabbage was a nuisance ( and afterwards a point of superbia ) . Other apocryphal suggestions include a train derailing or a Model T car overturning and spilling cabbage everywhere for people to snatch up , shout " Free Cabbages ! "
• Georgia has another bread connective - Cabbage Patch Kids , which were in the beginning called Little People . In the late 1970s , art bookman Xavier Roberts start make " soft sculptures , " which he after expanded on by giving them birth certificates and tolerate " acceptation . " In 1982 the name changed to Cabbage Patch . By the mid-80s , the dolls went on record as having the most successful and in - demand creation of a toy ever .
• Though cabbages have often been thought of throughout history as a cheap solid food , that ’s sure enough not true in Northern Canada , where a cabbage can cost $ 28 . The northerly Canadian territory of Nunavut is so outback that anything not a Cartesian product of hunting and gatheringmust be flown in .
• By the way , that corn beef and sugar you cook up for St. Patricks Day ? Not actually Irish . Though corned bitch was made in Ireland in the 17th and eighteenth centuries , most Irish families were too poor to eat it . Instead it go to British citizens as well as the British and U.S. military . These Clarence Shepard Day Jr. , the Irish reportedly find out the peach just patently boring .
• Cabbages can have a killer inherent aptitude - genetically modified cabbages can produce scorpion poison that kill caterpillars when they bite leaves . But do n’t care , the toxin is modify so it is n’t harmful to humanity . ( I wish that the championship of the article is " Venomous Cabbage " ! )
• Another way to get disembarrass of pests in your cultivated cabbage ? Er , human urine . consort to a 2007study , " Our results show that human piddle could be used as a fertilizer for kale and does not pose any substantial hygienic threat or exit any typical smack in nutrient product . " honest to know ?
• The largest chou on record was called " The Beast " and weigh 127 pounds . Reportedly it was n’t in reality specially tasty , so it end up as compost rather than on anyone ’s plate .
• How do you like to rust your cabbages , Flossers ? And have you notice a way to subvert their less - desirable side - effects ?
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