I’ve never heard of a “cabbage pocket,” but I’d assume it’s something like stuffed cabbage, which is ground meat rolled up inside a cabbage leaf.
I just assumed it was something CMOT Dibbler sold, or tried to.
What do you think egg rolls are filled with?
My guess before opening the thread was “a wallet”.
Like many others here, I’d never heard the term before, but assumed that it was some sort of food, probably Eastern European, consisting of meat or other filling stuffed into cabbage leaves and cooked.
So what is it, anyway?
Ukrainian Hot Pocket.
I did. Food wasn’t the first thing to come to mind as to what a “cabbage pocket” might be. These were.
I voted other because I had to think and think before deciding it might be some sort of food item.
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I think of the solemn religious rite of the Discordians:
I, (complete Holy Name, with Mystical Titles, and degrees, designations, offices, etc.), Ordained Priest of the Paratheo-anametamystikhood of Eris Esoteric, with the Authority invested at me by the High Priest of It, Office of the Polyfather, The House of the Rising Podge, POEE Head Temple; Do herewith Require of Ye:
1) ARE YE A HUMAN BEING AND NOT A CABBAGE OR SOMETHING? The Initiate answers YES.
2) THAT’S TOO BAD. DO YE WISH TO BETTER THYSELF? The Initiate answers YES.
3) HOW STUPID. ARE YE WILLING TO BECOME PHILOSOPHICALLY ILLUMINIZED? He answers YES.
4) VERY FUNNY. WILL YE DEDICATE YESELF TO THE HOLEY ERISIAN MOVEMENT? The Initiate answers PROBABLY.
5) THEN SWEAR YE THE FOLLOWING AFTER ME:
(The Priest here leads the Initiate in a recital of THE ERISIAN AFFIRMATION.) The Priest continues: THEN I DO HERE PROCLAIM YE POEE DISCIPLE (name), LEGIONNAIRE OF THE LEGION OF DYNAMIC DISCORD. HAIL ERIS! HAIL HAIL! HAIL YES!
All present rejoice grandly. The new Brother opens a large jug of wine and offers it to all who are present.
The Ceremony generally degenerates.
Christmas in Leutonia with the Schmenges, of course.
Cabbage Pocket, to me, sounds like someone took two random words and jammed them together.
If it’s an actual thing, I have no idea what it is nor does the mind instantly leap to any particular image.
When I hear Cabbage Pocket, I think Shoe Banana, or Windy Buttons. Because it’s like a Monty Python sketch.
I assumed that “cabbage pocket” meant cabbage roll in the same sense that “pork popsicle” means souvlaki.
My grandmother makes something similar, but we’ve always called them cabbage pies. It’s either cabbage or cabbage and hamburger encased inside a dough pastry and then baked. Both are fantastic.
On edit, my Grammer has Swedish roots, but she was born here in The States. In Kansas, matter of fact.
I immediately thought of the Thai chain of restaurants Cabbages and Condoms.
I’m a wordsmith and a cook, and I’ve never heard the term. I call them “cabbage rolls.”
A Cabbage Patch kid accessory.
ETA: Damn, wish I’d thought of the birth canal thing like you, Biggirl!
Google “cabbage pocket” and click images. You’ll see a variety of stuffed pastry-type concoctions, all pretty normal looking.
Screw holubtsi, they are now known as Ukrainian Pizza Pops. Pizza Pops are much more ubiquitous in Canada than Hot Pockets.