• deegeese
    23·
    3 months ago

    Without checking the etymology, I’d guess it comes from German, where ‘kohl’ is a word meaning leaf, as in coleslaw or kohlrabi.

    So collard greens would just be leafy greens.

      • deegeese
        1·
        3 months ago

        I never said it was a generic term. Cabbage for coleslaw, kohlrabi etc are all brassicas.

    • ℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠@slrpnk.net
      3·
      3 months ago

      Collard greens are in the brassica family, and the coll / caul / cole syllable is often used for those (cauliflower, cole slaw).

      • deegeese
        11·
        3 months ago

        Then what’s the common part with rotkohl?

        • Björn Tantau@swg-empire.de
          3·
          3 months ago

          What do you mean by “common part”? Kohl is just cabbage. Rotkohl is red cabbage. Because it’s cabbage that is red.

          Now you’ve made me hungry.

          • deegeese
            11·
            3 months ago

            So the etymology answer is collard greens are cabbage greens because they’re in the same family.