LOL the change is amusing to say the least... all the more reason I wanna see this shop open up...

"This curious comestible (actually a fruit, but eaten as a vegetable) probably has more names in varieties of the English language than any other. That’s because it has been cultivated for a very long time and it has been widely transmitted across the world from its heartland in eastern and southern Asia (the Arabs introduced it to Spain from India as early as the eighth century AD, and the Persians took it to Africa).

The name of eggplant was given it by Europeans in the middle of the eighteenth century because the variety they knew had fruits that were the shape and size of goose eggs. That variety also had fruits that are a whitish or yellowish colour rather than the wine purple that is more familiar to us nowadays. So the sort they knew really did look as though it had fruits like eggs.

In Britain, it is usually called an aubergine, a name which was borrowed through French and Catalan from its Arabic name al-badinjan. That word had reached Arabic through Persian from the Sanskrit vatimgana, which indicates how long it has been cultivated in India. In India, it has in the past been called brinjal, a word which comes from the same Arabic source as British aubergine, but filtered through Portuguese (the current term among English speakers in India is either the Hindi baingan, or aubergine). Some people in the southern states of the US still know it as Guinea squash, a name that commemorates its having been brought there from West Africa in the eighteenth century.

Of these names, eggplant is the easiest to say and remember, but its prosaic descriptiveness lacks the romance and sense of history that is attached to the others."

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[edit] I should refresh before posting :)

I've always thought it was strange that the Ikumoradeknox grew auber... eggplants, sorry I forget we all speak American here ;)

Shame they couldn't have had different names but apart from aubergine I don't know what else you would call it.

- Did the other staff not think we would spot the new Eggplant?

wat the

- aww :( why don't they just draw mould on it and throw it in a dusty corner while they're at it hugs poor unloved True eggplant

did they think of just revamping the old one and we did not need two? are eggplants that tasty anyway? I'd never eat one voluntarily.

This is the greatest thread on this website.

I want to know exactly how the staff meeting over mysterious eggplant/eggplant went down. I need to know everything that was said by everyone.

What about potatoes? So much americanizing on this site, and not enough of the one plant americans eat :(

Hahahahaha. Poor old mystery eggplant. Not cool enough to be the eggplant anymore.

That's a fruit if I'm not mistaken

I don't know, Wikipedia says "vegetable"...

i could totally get behind more potato items

well the wiki is never wrong, so I stand corrected

corn and potatoes are the only veggies I eat ;)

I just find it interesting that it became "mysterious" wouldn't it make more sense to be Atebus Eggplant or Ateban or whatever the correct form of that word is. is it mysterious because everyone knows what the eggplant emoji really means?

Well, if the wiki AND Pres. Reagan both said that ketchup is a vegetable, who am I to question them? :/

mysterious eggplant sounds way better. the old eggplant got the better deal :)