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Default Favorite veggie?

cshenk > wrote in message
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> "The Ranger" wrote
>>> Me too, but prefer collard and mustard greens, although
>>> I was shocked to recently discover what I always thought
>>> were mustard greens are sometimes actually kale, they
>>> appearing as similar to each other as cilantro and flat
>>> parsley.
>>>

>> Kale is so different from collards and mustard greens (taste,
>> texture, look) just as cilantro is different from flat parsley
>> (definitely taste and look).
>>

> Oh I think I know what he means. Shop in a non-standard
> USA store such as an asian grocery and you can find out
> that 'engrish' is common and easy to confuse.


I shop at Mitsua and don't find the greens being confused; only at Safeway
and Albertson's. I do wonder about some of the other "vegetables" I've seen
at Mitsua, though. I often wonder, "What is *that*? And do people actually
eat it?"

The Ranger