Hi Jason
On 22 Sep 2009, at 10:04, Jason Dusek wrote:
2009/09/21 Conor McBride <[email protected]>:
...or have unpleasant memories of being made to eat sulphurous
overboiled cabbage on pain of no pudding.
Well, maybe the Cabal cabbages are Napa cabbages or red
cabbages or pickled cabbages or Savoy cabbages?
Mmm. Kimchi!
It is too bad, really, that a wholesome vegetable -- good raw
or pickled or in little salady things like coleslaw -- finds
itself used as a disincentive.
I quite agree. Despite the best efforts of school kitchens, I
remain stubbornly enthusiastic for the humble cabbage. In fact,
I rather think I'll fetch one for my dinner.
I'm just suggesting that the marketing department consider the
variety of connotations and suggestions the term evokes before
adopting it: legendary backfirings abound (the Spanish sales
failure of a car called the "nova", for example). And what
disturbs me is just how scarily spot-on the wholesome vegetable
metaphor turns out to be.
The time has come...
Conor
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