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The Red-Foliaged Cabbage Patch Doll
Date: April Fool's Day, 1991
Categories: Botany, Newspapers, United Kingdom, 1991
The Daily Star reported that a farmer named Ivor Binhad was making 1,491 pounds an hour in grants from the European Common Market under its crop diversification scheme. The crop he was growing went by the scientific name of brassica caulis pannus haedus, otherwise known as the red-foliaged cabbage patch doll.
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