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Old 12-08-2006, 11:08 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening
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On 12/8/06 19:57, in article ,
"Chris Hogg" wrote:

On Sat, 12 Aug 2006 13:47:20 +0100, Sacha wrote:

On 12/8/06 11:44, in article , "Bob Hobden"
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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.

Calabrese is what they call the green stuff in the farm shops in west
Cornwall, but the supermarkets down here still call it broccoli.

Here and elsewhere, IME, it's either broccoli or purple sprouting broccoli.
It's quite unusual - again, IME - to see it called calabrese in England and
then it's always pronounced callabreeze as opposed to callabrayzay.
Probably doesn't make much difference to the flavour, however!
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