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Bass_X0
10/24/19 8:58:13 AM
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I mean, theyre not eggs, theyre not plants...
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treewojima
10/24/19 8:59:00 AM
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you mean the penis emoji?
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EzeDoesIt
10/24/19 9:01:28 AM
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This curious comestible (actually a fruit, but eaten as a vegetable) probably has more names in varieties of the English language than any other. Thats because it has been cultivated for a very long time and it has been widely transmitted across the world from its heartland in eastern and southern Asia (the Arabs introduced it to Spain from India as early as the eighth century AD, and the Persians took it to Africa).

The name of eggplant was given it by Europeans in the middle of the eighteenth century because the variety they knew had fruits that were the shape and size of goose eggs. That variety also had fruits that are a whitish or yellowish colour rather than the wine purple that is more familiar to us nowadays. So the sort they knew really did look as though it had fruits like eggs.

In Britain, it is usually called an aubergine, a name which was borrowed through French and Catalan from its Arabic name al-badinjan. That word had reached Arabic through Persian from the Sanskrit vatimgana, which indicates how long it has been cultivated in India. In India, it has in the past been called brinjal, a word which comes from the same Arabic source as British aubergine, but filtered through Portuguese (the current term among English speakers in India is either the Hindi baingan, or aubergine). Some people in the southern states of the US still know it as Guinea squash, a name that commemorates its having been brought there from West Africa in the eighteenth century.
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Master_Bass
10/24/19 9:02:54 AM
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matteus70
10/24/19 9:04:58 AM
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That's gold, Jerry! Gold!
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Foppe
10/24/19 9:06:48 AM
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lq2UCko
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Bass_X0
10/24/19 11:39:11 AM
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treewojima posted...
you mean the penis emoji?


Its a quote from Leisure Suit Larry.
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