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Do you know the same vegetable changes its name in 30 km?
Across the Peninsula a vegetable can have four names in a hundred kilometres. Here you will see the two you need.
Two words for the same plant
Bleda is acelga, chard. Mongeta is judía, the bean. Carabassó is calabacín, the courgette, and albercoc is albaricoque, the apricot. Neither of the two words is the correct one: they are the same plant said from two places, and at a stall they are going to say the local one, not the one in the dictionary you brought with you.
How we handle it on the pages
Every product appears in Castellano with the farm's own word beside it. The list carries 145 different products today, and the farm's word is never translated in its place: a translation is not a collected fact, so it is shown alongside but it never replaces what they wrote.
Why it pays you to learn the local one
Because it is the one you are going to hear when you ask, and because the local name usually brings the variety stuck to it. When somebody tells you the name their family knows it by they are giving you, free of charge, half a conversation about why they sow that one and not another.
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