Really Big Vegetables

[Mike Weaver]

>>        There's that farm, or spiritual community, somewhere in
>>those fabled isles, that grows the Giant Vegetables.  The place
>>is mentioned in the movie My Dinner With Andre.
>
>Findhorn.  Do a websearch, check it out, expandeth your mind.
>
>- -- deedle
>

Modern myth #123456:  'Findhorn produced giant veg on dune
 sand because they had a mainline to the cosmic powers.'
 Pigshit. 
 Comment and reason in one wheelbarrow load.  They used loads
 of the stuff.  Our resident ex Findhorner is away at present or I'd
 be able to provide more detail. Amounts, age etc.
 Giant veg growing is a pasttime in parts of the north of England.
Leeks, onions, cabbages, marrows...  it's all special varieties bred
 for size and culinarily useless or rather tasteless.  

>From Sir Henry at Rawlinson End by Viv Stanshall comes this:

The body of Doris Hazard's pekinese, unwittingly asphixiated
 beneath her husband's bottom during a wine and middle-aged 
spread do at the great house, after the ritual fortnight in the
 Rawlinson fridge, has been given over to old Scrotum, the wrinkled
 retainer, for indecent burial under Sir Henry's giant marrow. This
 monstrous jade zebra veg is the master's puffed pride, and by his
 stern instruction, the greedy gourd is daily drip-fed with a
 powerful laxative. Thus, 
<Sir Henry>   "Should some rascal half-inch the blessed thing and
 eat it, it'll give 'em the liquorice for weeks!" 

Mike
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