Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 3 months agoWhy are collard greens called greens is it the color? And if so how come there is not a rainbow of different colored collards?message-squaremessage-square25fedilinkarrow-up136
arrow-up136message-squareWhy are collard greens called greens is it the color? And if so how come there is not a rainbow of different colored collards?Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 3 months agomessage-square25fedilink
minus-squareBjörn Tantau@swg-empire.delinkfedilinkarrow-up3·3 months agoWhat do you mean by “common part”? Kohl is just cabbage. Rotkohl is red cabbage. Because it’s cabbage that is red. Now you’ve made me hungry.
minus-squaredeegeese@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 months agoSo the etymology answer is collard greens are cabbage greens because they’re in the same family.
What do you mean by “common part”? Kohl is just cabbage. Rotkohl is red cabbage. Because it’s cabbage that is red.
Now you’ve made me hungry.
So the etymology answer is collard greens are cabbage greens because they’re in the same family.