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reesetee 'Nuff said. Nov 11, 2007
skipvia Well, it was the late sixties... Nov 11, 2007
reesetee Must have been soooome bus trip, skipvia. ;-) Nov 10, 2007
skipvia Yarb, I am reminded of a bus trip I took through central Canada some years ago. The fields of rapeseed stretched as far as I could see in every direction. Amazing sight. It reminded me of the poppy fields in The Wizard of Oz, except that the rapeseed flowers were yellow and the poppies were red. And the poppies were short but the rapeseed plants were quite tall. And of course, the plains in central Canada were very flat, but the poppy fields in Oz were...
I guess they really didn't remind me of the poppies in Oz. I wonder what I was thinking?... Nov 10, 2007
reesetee Like scotch whiskey and champagne, I presume? Not that he wants to grow those. ;-> Nov 10, 2007
skipvia I have a friend here in Alaska who grows rapeseed commercially. He can't call the oil "canola" because it's a trademarked term. Nov 10, 2007
reesetee No kidding? Well, in this case, I'd say they probably were on the right track--even if rapum does mean turnip. Nov 10, 2007
skipvia Canola was coined by Canadian producers of rapeseed oil for the exact purpose of avoiding use of the term "rape" in reference to their product. It stands for "Canadian oil," basically.
Edit: More specifically, Canola stands for CANadian Oil, Low Acid. The term rape comes from the Latin word rapum, meaning "turnip," a related species. Nov 9, 2007
uselessness That sounds terrible. Who names this stuff? Nov 9, 2007
yarb A.k.a. rapeseed or canola.
Small bright yellow fields of this patchworked the land I grew up in. Nov 9, 2007