So, this evening over dinner, a few of us were discussing the different names for vegetables in New Zealand. For example, a zucchini is called courget or courgette (kor-zhet, although the kor is sort of like kouer). We were going through these vegetables, and we got to capsicum.
Shalom's comment was that it always sounded a little bit phallic to her, what with the "cap" and the "cum." I said that it was strange, because bell peppers are probably the least phallic vegetable of them all. And then we spent a a few minutes trying to come up with a vegetable less phallic than bell peppers/the least phallic vegetable...
Carrots, corn, zucchinis, and cucumbers all did not make the cut. We eventually ended up with onions. So. Let that be a lesson to you.
The only other vegetable name difference that I can think of off the top of my head is eggplant, which is aubergine. Oh, and spring onions are green onions.
Mm, also to add, I already told Other Mo this story, and it is really for her than anyone else, but I saw two roosters fighting in Hawaii, which I guess is technically a cockfight. I was telling some other students about it, and one of them started talking about these worms that penis joust? I guess they have the capacity to be both male and female, but they both want to be the male, so they run at each other with their junk out and the first one to stab the other is the one that gets to be the guy. That would give me a lot of motivation to get better at fencing...
