Just had some delicious potato and leek soup for lunch, with a little garlic bread.
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Just had some delicious potato and leek soup for lunch, with a little garlic bread. Which is an excuse to say that, in the opening line of Beowulf, “Hwæt. We Gardena in geardagum … “ the “Gar” in “Gardena”, i.e. “Spear-Danes”, is the same as the “gar” in “Garlic”, because garlic is the Spear-Leek.
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Just had some delicious potato and leek soup for lunch, with a little garlic bread. Which is an excuse to say that, in the opening line of Beowulf, “Hwæt. We Gardena in geardagum … “ the “Gar” in “Gardena”, i.e. “Spear-Danes”, is the same as the “gar” in “Garlic”, because garlic is the Spear-Leek.
@kjhealy
Potato leek soup is my "only one food for the rest of your life" foodA staple of my childhood, my French mom said in Lille leeks were called "the poor man's asparagus"
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@kjhealy
Potato leek soup is my "only one food for the rest of your life" foodA staple of my childhood, my French mom said in Lille leeks were called "the poor man's asparagus"
@kims It's so delicious and homey.
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Just had some delicious potato and leek soup for lunch, with a little garlic bread. Which is an excuse to say that, in the opening line of Beowulf, “Hwæt. We Gardena in geardagum … “ the “Gar” in “Gardena”, i.e. “Spear-Danes”, is the same as the “gar” in “Garlic”, because garlic is the Spear-Leek.
@kjhealy @HollyGoDarkly This is delightfully geeky.
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@kjhealy @HollyGoDarkly This is delightfully geeky.
@michaelgemar @kjhealy @HollyGoDarkly It’s also delightfully leek-y
