Show Names of Things We Eat The names of the things we eat have curious derivations The humble humble humble hum hum- ble vegetable parsley for instance traveled from Greek to Latin from Latin to Saxon and from thence to its present form It actually has the same origin as the name Peter Petera a rock for it grew among the rocks of ancient Rome Potato is fr from m the Spanish which in turn says Pearsons Pearson's London Weekly Week Week- ly Magazine came from the Haytian Haytian Haytian Hay- Hay tian batata a tasting sweet-tasting type of yam The word sweet goes back to the to to taste and sugar has also come to us from the same samp ancient language via PerI Per Per- I sian Arabic Spanish and French The for sugar was car- car kara which first meant grains of sand |