miscellaneous epiphanies (root vegetable edition)

• that beets and chard are different parts of the same plant*
• ditto turnips and chinese cabbage*
• that baby carrots are regular-sized carrots cut to smaller pieces (this is a rerun)
• that yuca is another name for cassava and that tapioca (and therefore tapioca pudding) comes from it
• that queen anne’s lace is the above ground flower of the carrot*.

see also: miscellaneous epiphanies d.c. edition and logos with arrows edition

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*before you go digging up roots in your neighbor’s garden know this: though these plant parts are from the same species of plant, the plants are usually cultivated for one or the other. this is similar to the way that lassie and scooby doo are the same species of murder-solving canines but one was bred to look good in black and white and the other was bred to hang with disco celebrities.

miscellaneous epiphanies (d.c. edition)

• that chevy chase is actually the name of a real town (and that it predated the comedian by 1.3 thousand years)
• that the marionberry is actually a real berry (and not named after the crack-smoking former d.c. mayor)

miscellaneous epiphanies (logos with arrows edition)

• that fedex has a hidden arrow
• that amazon.com has one pointing from a to z
• that the arrows on the carrefour logo conceal a capital c
• that the logo for the national park services is in the shape of an arrow head

miscellaneous epiphanies

• that this imp is her brother-in-law
• that cds are translucent
• that this james lipton is the same as this james lipton
• that the word i heard as “uh-ZAY-lee-uh” and read as “AZZA-lee,” were actually the same word (also: “FUH-see-shush” and “fass-ETTY-us”)
• that the alphabet song and twinkle twinkle little star share the same melody