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Prickly Pear Shrub

October 8, 2014 Leave a Comment

Prickly Pear Shrub from https://test.pleasepassthepeas.com

This is probably a window into my inner word-nerd, but I have always been fascinated by terms that are unique to a particular language or culture.

Do you ever buy books that you never get around to reading? The Japanese have a word for that.

The Germans have one to describe feeling homesick for a place you’ve never visited

What about all of those times that the perfect, witty comeback come to mind — just a moment too late to be useful? The French apparently call that “l’esprit de l’escalier” or staircase wit.

And the British, it turns out, have a term to describe taking fruit from someone else’s property. It’s called scrumping.*

When we lived in San Antonio, a vendor at the local farmers market sold cactus fruit around this time each year. Prickly Pear cactus grow in Eastern North Carolina too but, as far as I know, no one around here peddles the fruit.

So that’s how I found myself engaged in a little pre-dawn scrumping, with the baby in his stroller serving as my unwitting lookout.

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Filed Under: Drinks, Fall, Vegetarian Tagged With: cactus, prickly pear

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