In article , Sacha writes:
| On 12/8/06 11:44, in article , "Bob Hobden"
| wrote:
| Paul wrote
| Got the taste for this vegetable lately, but is the name Broccoli just
| a cockney word for cabbage?
|
| Sounds more Italian to me.
|
| As in Cubby? ;-) The green stuff is calabrese in Italian, the purple
| stuff is broccoli.

The word dates from 1699 in English, and is indeed derived from the
Italian "broccoli", meaning cabbage-sprouts.

In UK gardening parlance, Sacha is right.

Ciao,
Signor Broccolo.