"When we eat beets, the red pigment is usually decolorized by high stomach acidity and reaction with iron in the large intestine, but people sometimes excrete the intact pigment, a startling but harmless event."
And on a less puerile note, onion comes from Latin for "one," "oneness," and "unity," garlic is Anglo-Saxon for "spear-leek" and shallot and scallion from the Latin term for Ashqelon, a city in southwest Palestine.
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