they might be giants

[Terrance]

This mural features a fantasy Philadelphia landscape with neighborhood
children and giant vegetables. 

http://www.gophila.com/murals/kids.htm


http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/pa/philadelphia/areahistory/watson0110.txt

WATSON'S  ANNALS  of  PHILADELPHIA  and  PENNSYLVANIA

               Vol. I    Written 1830 - 1850

Chapter 25.       SUPERSTITIONS AND POPULAR CREDULITY


The youth of the present day have little or no conception of the great
advance of agreeable and useful reading got up for their use, and
especially by such an establishment as the Sunday School Union.  In
former days some half a dozen little popular works constituted their
all.  They were
such as Goody Two Shoes,  Tom Thumb,  Jack the Giant Killer,  Jack and
Jill, 
Poor Richard,  Gulliver, Robinson Crusoe,  Baron Trenck,  The Babes in
the  Wood ! "Sure you remember the Babes in the Wood !" 

Adena: 
http://greatserpentmound.org/articles/giants.html

Nature Devas: 

The deva told Peter everything, from how far apart various plants like
to be to how they dislike getting transplanted. Soon the garden became
incredibly
productive. One huge vegetable weighed 42 lbs. A broccoli head was so
big it fed the group of six for four months!


http://www.hinduism-today.com/1996/1/1996-1-15.html

I remember when I was a child growing up in the seventies and my Mom
took me to see Woody Allen's comedy about the future, Sleeper. Most
memorable was a chase scene through a garden of human-size vegetables
with Woody forever sliding on a giant banana peel.
Ironic as it may seem, the existence of giant vegetables is, today, a
possibility. 

http://www.geneticengineering.net/atomatofishorafishtomato.htm

Don't they grow giant vegetables at Disney? 

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand. DEATH ON THE INSTALLMENT PLAN 

(Bugs Bunny)  (1946) -- SUMMARY: Bugs and Elmer are captured by a mad
   scientist who's growing giant vegetables.

Lost In Space

Dr. Smith decides to plant some seeds, but even when he was told not to
plant any of the seeds in the alien soil and to stick with the soil they
brought with them from earth. Dr. Smith in typical fashion goes against
wishes and does just the opposite. The seeds mutate and grow to an
enormous size but release a gas when opened and only will can save them.
Professor Robinson after returning to the camp and being told about the
giant vegetables and discovers that the cells and soil that has a
parasite in
it that will cause gigantic growth. 


Ho, Ho,  Ho, Green Giant, but 


                         God didn't make little green
                         apples 
                         And it don't rain in Indianapolis
                         in the summertime 
                         And there's no such thing as
                         Doctor Seuss 
                         Or Disneyland, and Mother
                         Goose, no nursery rhyme 
                         God didn't make little green
                         apples 
                         And it don't rain in Indianapolis
                         in the summertime