Cabbage (from main list) AND HIDEOUS

[Rita Winston]

Barb wrote:

> I wonder whether the reason for Polyjuice Potion
> smelling like cabbage has to do with The Invasion 
> of the Body Snatchers, in which the aliens had the
> human duplicates growing in cabbage patches (I also
> wonder whether this is the joke with Cabbage Patch Dolls). 

I always thought that Cabbage Patch Dolls were named after an old
English or French version of the babies being brought by the stork --
they said that boy babies were found under cabbage plants and girl
babies were found under rose bushes, and that blue for boys and pink for
girls was because of the colors of those plants, altho' I have never
seen a blue cabbage.

> Also on the cabbage smell, I just read the bit 
> where a medium in "Good Omens" was boiling brussels 
> sprouts in her apartment to prepare for a seance 
> because she simply thought that this was how her
>  clients would expect her apartment to smell.  

When the bulk of immigration to USA's eastern cities was from Europe,
Americans formed the impression that a fortune teller would be a
European ethnic (such as a gypsy!), and associated European immigrants
with the smell of cooked cabbage, supposedly because it was a cheap food
that new immigrants could afford.

Jenny from Ravenclaw wrote:

>  because that Blood, Flesh and Bone scene was 
> pretty intense.  I'd also need plenty of time 
> to prepare for something that hideous.  

One difference is that Voldemort LIKES hideous.

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