Vivid cabbages

Today in my ongoing series of photos from my travels: vivid cabbages from London's Borough Market. Link

[#1 posted by termy , December 31, 2007 1:15 AM]

"Vivid cabbages" might just be the greatest combination of two words I have ever heard.

[#2 posted by Beanolini , December 31, 2007 3:02 AM]

My vote for most picturesque cabbage cultivar goes to Romanesco broccoli.

The purple colour in most cabbages results from anthocyanins, which change colour according to pH. It's possible to make your own pH indicator from cabbage water- it's worth trying, as the colour changes can be quite startling (red with acid solutions, blue with alkaline).

[#3 posted by danegeld , December 31, 2007 6:07 AM]

Borough Market Rocks! + did you see the space invaders someone has tiled into the bridge near Southwalk Cathedral?

[#4 posted by Adam C , December 31, 2007 6:10 AM]

Awwwww Baby Audrey IIs...aren't they cute?

[#5 posted by Halloween Jack , December 31, 2007 7:14 AM]

I read that as "viral cabbages".

[#6 posted by Pyros , December 31, 2007 9:48 AM]

When Andrew Marvel penned the lines

"My vegetable love should grow
Vaster than empires, and more slow."

in him poem, To His Coy Mistress, I think it was these cabbages to which he was referring.