is for vegetables
I like veggies, but I’m especially fond of root vegetables. I’m not entirely sure why. Of course there is the yum factor, but I think it also has to do their growing up underground. Mysterious. Hidden. Akin to buried treasure.
I’m also partial to anthropomorphized root vegetables. Well if I’m perfectly honest, I may need to extend my love to all anthropomorphized fruits and vegetables. But they can come in a variety of formats.
An actual garden-variety veggie:
Or vintage seed packets:
Or a favorite collection of mine – vintage Japanese salt and pepper shakers, including Hankurei turnips, carrots, and a white radish.
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To compliment the quirky visuals, let’s add a handful of quirky facts as well…
- Did you know Jerusalem artichokes, also known as sunchokes and earth apples, are the tubers of a particular sunflower?
- Both turnips and rutabagas are part of the mustard family.
- Sweet potatoes are part of the morning glory family.
- Knowing that I like anthropomorphic veggies a friend cued me in about this kids video teaching rhymes about root vegetables. It most definitely qualifies as quirky, and I think it may even be headed into the territory of bizarre. What do you think?
- Finally, while not confined solely to root vegetables, here’s a look at the faces behind giant vegetables.
Are you with me in the love of rooties? Have a favorite? Collect something quirky? Do tell – you know I love to hear.
LOL cute little video there and something my kids and I would have watched as they were growing up! Love your salt and pepper shakers, especially the winking carrots. My mom used to collect salt and pepper shakers too. Thanks for sharing, Deborah.
I find the video weirdly mesmerizing Janet. Just like root vegetables. 🙂
Hi Deborah – love the s + p shakers … very pretty. I love my root veggies – always have loved veggies … I didn’t know all the facts though … I don’t collect now – except books and some art … but eat veggies happily! Love particularly turnips and swede … as well as potatoes of all sorts … carrots, celeriac, onions of course!, parsnips … and so it goes. You have to have Swede or Turnip in a Cornish pasty! Cheers and here’s to supper time! Hilary
You sent me to the dictionary again Hilary, as I didn’t know what Swede was. We know it as rutabaga. Somehow that name always makes me smile, and hence it’s one of my favorites as well.
A Cornish pasty sounds like just the ticket today – we’re experiencing a day of unseasonably cool weather after a spell of very hot and humid. Turning the oven on actually sounds like a possibility instead of a joke.
The carrot looks like she’s doing the cha cha! Rutabaga is the strangest word – also sounds like a boogie kind of dance –
I’ll have to come back and do some learning about root veg – who would have known. But I’m especially intrigued by their living underground 🙂
Thanks Deborah – 🙂
Well now you have my imagination working overtime Susan – I’m thinking about all that fabulous dancing going on underground!