# Mummy, where do cabbages come from?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [August 19, 2002, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mummy-where-do-cabbages-come-from/124560 "2002-08-19T05:25:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![Scorpio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Scorpio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scorpio)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2002, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mummy-where-do-cabbages-come-from/124560/1 "2002-08-19T05:25:39Z")

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Just wondering where cabbages would be found in their natual habitat (ie what part of the world they came from when they were wild), who domesticated them and how long ago?

Answers involving lettuce would also be acceptable.

Thanks

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**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2002, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mummy-where-do-cabbages-come-from/124560/2 "2002-08-19T05:42:24Z")

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The History of Cabbage:

[http://ag.usask.ca/cofa/departments/hort/hortinfo/veg/cabbage.html](http://ag.usask.ca/cofa/departments/hort/hortinfo/veg/cabbage.html)

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**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2002, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mummy-where-do-cabbages-come-from/124560/3 "2002-08-19T05:46:12Z")

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Well, sonofa…let’s try that again:

[http://ag.usask.ca/cofa/departments/hort/hortinfo/veg/cabbage.html](http://ag.usask.ca/cofa/departments/hort/hortinfo/veg/cabbage.html)

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**Author:** ![Sofa\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/58956e/32.png) [@Sofa\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sofa_King)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2002, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mummy-where-do-cabbages-come-from/124560/4 "2002-08-19T05:49:45Z")

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Funny, I thought they were delivered by pelicans.

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**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2002, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mummy-where-do-cabbages-come-from/124560/5 "2002-08-19T05:52:32Z")

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I can’t seem to make the hyperlink come out in the post like I type it in for some reason. Crap.

Anyway, do a google search and click on the very first article, “The History of Cabbage”, and you’ll get it. Plus a lot more. Lots of cabbage lore on the web.

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**Author:** ![Scorpio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Scorpio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scorpio)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2002, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mummy-where-do-cabbages-come-from/124560/6 "2002-08-19T06:03:34Z")

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Thanks for that.

May I say, I CANNOT believe there is a website for the history of the cabbage. Cabbage lore! LOL

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**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2002, 11:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mummy-where-do-cabbages-come-from/124560/7 "2002-08-19T11:30:07Z")

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Kenosha, Wisconsin. I lived in Kenosha for a few years. That city sticks like crap when the cabbage get’s nice and ripe and they start hauling it down the road. There’s sooooo much of it too. It turns out that our Kenosha goes all over the country and even as far as Holland.