Let's Call The Whole Thing Nightshade
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| Description: | I say aubergine, you say eggplant.... |
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| Created: | 2018-11-08 14:32 | ||||||
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| Collection: | The Ensonglopedia of Plants | ||||||
| Publisher: | University of Cambridge | ||||||
| Copyright: | John Hinton | ||||||
| Language: | eng (English) | ||||||
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| Keywords: | solanaceae; nightshades; | ||||||
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| Explicit content: | No | ||||||
Transcript
Transcript:
I like potato, and you like tomato,
But jimsonweed’s toxic and so is tobacco.
Datura, petunia,
Solandra, cyphomandra;
Let’s call the whole thing Nightshade.
I call it an aubergine and you call it an eggplant
You have no clue what I mean and I think you are ignorant.
Tamarillo, pepino,
Fabiana imbricata;
Let’s call the whole thing Nightshade.
But oh, if we call them Nightshade will people think that they’re deadly?
Yes, some are pretty poisonous but some are quite nutritious and friendly.
And besides, don’t they all have perfectly adequate names already?
You call it capsicum and I call it pepper
Your word’s extravagant but my word is better
Scopolia, bravallia
Wolfberry, Cape gooseberry,
Let’s call the whole thing Nightshade.
But jimsonweed’s toxic and so is tobacco.
Datura, petunia,
Solandra, cyphomandra;
Let’s call the whole thing Nightshade.
I call it an aubergine and you call it an eggplant
You have no clue what I mean and I think you are ignorant.
Tamarillo, pepino,
Fabiana imbricata;
Let’s call the whole thing Nightshade.
But oh, if we call them Nightshade will people think that they’re deadly?
Yes, some are pretty poisonous but some are quite nutritious and friendly.
And besides, don’t they all have perfectly adequate names already?
You call it capsicum and I call it pepper
Your word’s extravagant but my word is better
Scopolia, bravallia
Wolfberry, Cape gooseberry,
Let’s call the whole thing Nightshade.