Mehr Gemüse

Continuing with the Veggie Vocab today! 

I’m looking out at the garden from my office window, and I can see that die Kartoffeln  are looking great. Potatoes grow really well here – as well as they did in Idaho. Also, the rabbit isn't munching away on my sprouts.

So, here are the words for today:

Die Kartoffel (n)

Die Zweibel (n)

Der Spargel

Die Artischoche

Die Rutabaga

Die Kohlrabi

Die Rübe

Der Sellerie

Der Rosenkohl

Auch der Kurbis

Der Kurbis

Just scanning the list, it seems as if a few German words for veggies have been carried right over into English. Neat! Mrs. Rutabaga and  Mr. Kohlrabi stay the same, und der Sellerie und die Artischoche are close enough to celery and artichoke to not be troublesome.  That just leaves 6 to study, and I already knew die Kartoffel. Easy days are fun!

It appears you can’t learn German veggies without a deep appreciation of cabbage. How many of these suckers incorporate kohl  into their names? The list is legion!

I do have a bone to pick with the Germans, however. Whoever decided that Brussels sprouts was a “rose cabbage” was nuts. This is the most disgusting veggie I have ever encountered.

It fools you into thinking it’s a harmless, friendly cabbage. It isn’t. It’s just plain nasty, however you try to disguise it. Sort of like tofu.

I’m feeling adventurous today, so I think I’ll try to decipher a sentence or two on Die Welt, my online German newspaper and then listen to another song from my Schlagerpiloten CD.

Bis Bald!