YOUR QUESTION
In china is cabbage called "European wombok" in the same way that wombok is sometimes called Chinese cabbage?
- Stacey Q, Melbourne Australia
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You're absolutely right - "European wombok" is indeed the preferred term among most mainland Chinese. Furthermore, in Japan radishes are called 'Eurodaikon' ... coincidentally the name of a Greek philosopher who was greatly concerned with the limits of human perception. He believed that our senses could reveal to us "only the thin, lurid, reddish skins of things", leaving the "crisp white flesh of ultimate reality" hidden forever beneath a superficial yet impenetrable layer of worldly appearances.
Thinking full-time in his home town of Bigos, Eurodaikon attempted to found a new school of thought to rival the dominant Stoics (who he famously characterised as "a bunch of pretentious moustache-twirlers who wouldn't know truth if it tickled them with a feather boa for 30 minutes before performing a highly athletic striptease down to its fundamental, immutable precepts"). Unfortunately his life's work was cut short by a violent and tragic intestinal malfunction at a hot-dog eating contest.
In china is cabbage called "European wombok" in the same way that wombok is sometimes called Chinese cabbage?
- Stacey Q, Melbourne Australia
You're absolutely right - "European wombok" is indeed the preferred term among most mainland Chinese. Furthermore, in Japan radishes are called 'Eurodaikon' ... coincidentally the name of a Greek philosopher who was greatly concerned with the limits of human perception. He believed that our senses could reveal to us "only the thin, lurid, reddish skins of things", leaving the "crisp white flesh of ultimate reality" hidden forever beneath a superficial yet impenetrable layer of worldly appearances.
Thinking full-time in his home town of Bigos, Eurodaikon attempted to found a new school of thought to rival the dominant Stoics (who he famously characterised as "a bunch of pretentious moustache-twirlers who wouldn't know truth if it tickled them with a feather boa for 30 minutes before performing a highly athletic striptease down to its fundamental, immutable precepts"). Unfortunately his life's work was cut short by a violent and tragic intestinal malfunction at a hot-dog eating contest.
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