In the town of Gulgong, one of my great-uncles, Carew NORTHCOTE, ran the Royal Hotel in the 1930s. He grew a giant cabbage in the backyard of the hotel. One family member remembered that the cabbage was so big because it had been fertilised by elephant manure from a travelling circus.
Source: The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser, Saturday 10 November 1934
Source: The Muswellbrook Chronicle, Tuesday 13 Nov 1934 Page 6
Source: Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative, Monday 25 Mar 1935 Page 4
I'm thinking the hotel guests ended up having cabbage with every meal for a couple of weeks! Whew, the smell in the kitchen would have been persistent.
ReplyDeleteGlad I wasn't there for dinner during those weeks!
ReplyDeleteHoly Dooley that's some cabbage! You'd have been well sick of it by the time it was finished.
ReplyDeleteSure would!
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