What is a rabe?

I found the website for the guy who was using it on the show:

http://www.tonylukes.com/menu.htm

He seems to really like using the stuff, but expects everyone to know what it is I guess.

[QUOTE=neorxnawange]
Broccoli rabe is formed from the Italian broccoli di rapa, which translates as flowering tops of the turnip. So says my unabridged Merriam Webster.
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thanx!

[QUOTE=Chronos]
Culinarily, yes. Taxonomically, they’re as different from vegetables as we are, but by that definition, the bun is a vegetable too.
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Hey, I was just ribbing you a little.

But seriously, I have no idea what you mean about the bun being a vegetable. I’m sure it’s quite simple, but it has eluded me completely.

[QUOTE=Contrapuntal]
Hey, I was just ribbing you a little.

But seriously, I have no idea what you mean about the bun being a vegetable. I’m sure it’s quite simple, but it has eluded me completely.
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What’s the bun made out of?

[QUOTE=Derleth]
What’s the bun made out of?
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It depends. Certainly parts of it are of vegetable origin, I doubt that all of it is. Is sodium a vegetable?

Are you suggesting that anything that has vegetable material as part of it’s component structure is a vegetable? Is a hemp shirt a vegetable?
Not trying to be a smartypants here. I just don’t see how, taxonomically, a bun is a vegetable .

Extraordinarily tasteless joke warning:

It’s sexual assault when you have a cold.

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It depends. Certainly parts of it are of vegetable origin, I doubt that all of it is. Is sodium a vegetable?

Are you suggesting that anything that has vegetable material as part of it’s component structure is a vegetable? Is a hemp shirt a vegetable?
Not trying to be a smartypants here. I just don’t see how, taxonomically, a bun is a vegetable .
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Not taxonomically, but in a round of twenty questions, a bun and a hemp shirt would be ‘vegetable’, I think.