# Albert Broccoli - descendent?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 26, 2010, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albert-broccoli-descendent/533939 "2010-03-26T20:54:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2012, 10:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albert-broccoli-descendent/533939/21 "2012-10-19T10:48:55Z")

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And I’m pretty sure it was the Scots who first crossbred their sheep herding dogs with cabbage and invented collieflower.

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**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2012, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albert-broccoli-descendent/533939/22 "2012-10-19T11:54:26Z")

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Broccolini is a vegetable grown by watering broccoli with gin and vermouth.

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**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2012, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albert-broccoli-descendent/533939/23 "2012-10-19T12:35:10Z")

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But shaken, not stirred.

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**Author:** ![Darth\_Panda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee7513/32.png) [@Darth\_Panda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Panda)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2012, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albert-broccoli-descendent/533939/24 "2012-10-19T13:17:28Z")

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Sounds like a but shaken good time.

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**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2012, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albert-broccoli-descendent/533939/25 "2012-10-19T20:20:01Z")

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> [@jjimm](#):
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> My cousin’s ex-husband’s friend’s co-worker knew a guy in a warehouse that used to supply vermouth to the set of the James Bond movies, who said that Albert Broccoli was actually originally called Adolf Sauerkraut, but changed his name after the war to avoid sounding too German.

Was he shaky?

> [@Jonathan\_Chance](#):
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> But shaken, not stirred.

::shakes fist::

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