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   Kim Scheinberg (kims@mas.to)'s status on Sunday, 22-Mar-2026 03:19:49 JST Kim Scheinberg

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   • Kieran Healy

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   Potato leek soup is my "only one food for the rest of your life" food

   A staple of my childhood, my French mom said in Lille leeks were called "the poor man's asparagus"

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     Kieran Healy (kjhealy@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 22-Mar-2026 03:19:50 JST Kieran Healy

     Just had some delicious potato and leek soup for lunch, with a little garlic bread. Which is an excuse to say that, in the opening line of Beowulf, “Hwæt. We Gardena in geardagum … “ the “Gar” in “Gardena”, i.e. “Spear-Danes”, is the same as the “gar” in “Garlic”, because garlic is the Spear-Leek.