[TAG] Re a certain Laundrette message

[Jimmy O'Regan]

mso at oz.net wrote:
> Jimmy wrote:
> 
>>>>Tell you
>>>>what, I'll allow you to choose which rotten vegetables are thrown at
>>>>you.
>>>
>>>Hmm, which vegetable would be most difficult to obtain in Ireland.
>>>Asparagas?  Or something tropical....
>>
>>Right, rotten cabbage it is then.
> 
> 
> They don't grow cabbage in Ireland?  Considering it grows in Russia (schi
> = cabbage soup), I'd think it'd adapt quite readily to Ireland.  Go look
> at your dairy farms and see if there might be a few cabbage weeds here and
> there.

'Course it does. "Being difficult, eh? I'll go with the convenient option".

> 
> In _The Nine Nations of North America_, there's a piece in the Alaska
> chapter about the idiodicy of people living where tomatoes won't.

Yeah. No Pizza.
/me shakes his head
The fools.