On Monday, October 1, 2018 at 10:06:25 AM UTC-4, Ophelia wrote:
> "Nancy Young" wrote in message ...
>
> Whenever we go to the farmers' market we make a point to stop
> at this one booth that has good spinach. Not like baby spinach
> that disappears the instant it hits heat. I thought it was some
> kind of spinach you don't normally see in the stores.
>
> So today the sign doesn't just say spinach. It says
> Spinach malabar. Hmmm. Go home and look it up.
>
> All these years buying these people's special spinach and it's
> not even spinach. (laugh) What a rube.
>
> nancy
>
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> rube?

rube (n.)
1896, reub, from shortened form of masc. proper name Reuben (q.v.), which is attested from 1804 as a conventional type of name for a country man.

Hick, yokel, bumpkin, rustic.

Cindy Hamilton