A cabbage the size of a Buick won the annual statewide growing contest for third-graders, with the student grower watering the monster every day last summer to get it as big as possible.Here's the winner:
Riley Olbrantz of Newman Catholic Elementary School/St. Anne in Wausau was named the winner in the Bonnie Plants Third Grade Cabbage Program, for growing a 28.6-pound beauty of the O.S. Cross cabbage variety.
The O.S. Cross Variety was also a very underrated Robert Ludlum novel.
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I have a dim memory of a TV pitchman back in the 80s hawking some sort of food processor by excitedly exclaiming "acres and acres of coleslaw!"
(I mostly remember that because one of my friends from back in my musician days who was a sound engineer used to add "acres of coleslaw!" whenever he got excited telling us what this or that piece of sound gear could do.)
Did they name the cabbage "Audrey II"?
And you may not like cabbage, but somewhere KingDavid is dreaming of golubki.
Crankbait, i was thinking the exact same thing when i saw the picture.
I was born in a town (Circleville, Ohio) that hosts an annual "Pumpkin Festival" (third weekend in October), and it's worth noting that mega-flora generally aren't....terribly flavorful or with good texture. You actually lift such vegetables on a shipping pallet because they're not capable of being lifted in other ways.
So your worries are.....thankfully misplaced. That cabbage ain't coming near slaw.
I can't be the only one yelling "feed me, Seymour!" while looking that picture.
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