SC - Re: pigeon peas

Vincent Cuenca bootkiller at hotmail.com
Tue Nov 28 14:34:10 PST 2000


  The Spanish name is gandules; the Latin name is
>Cajanus cajan.

Odd linguistic footnote:  "gandul" in Spanish also means a lazy person.  I 
wonder where this came from?  Any thoughts?

Vicente
(reading way too much about food as a tool for drawing class distinctions)
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