Interesting food facts of the day

"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.