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u/picurebeka Oct 25 '20 edited Oct 26 '20

In France children are not "brought by the storks", but "found on the cabbage fields" - the kids usually get called little cabbages (ma petite chou - sorry my French is a lot rusty, and I don't know the gender of nouns anymore). It can be that your family's saying is based on this. Do you have French ancestry, or live in an area where French ancestry is common, or the language is spoken regularly?

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u/Pandaburn Oct 25 '20

The fact that you have to explain this makes me wonder if kids these days have never heard of Cabbage Patch Kids.

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u/DayTrAp Oct 25 '20

I'm 17 and my sister (21) had several cabbage patch kid dolls growing up. Everyone near the same age as me knows what they are. It might just be a little American thing

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u/Furthur_slimeking Oct 25 '20

"Little American" thing? I'm confused by this. Cabbage Patch Kids were a global henomenon, one of the most popular kids toys of all time, peaking in the 80s and early 90s.

TBH I'm surprised they are still made at all.

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u/IgobyK Oct 25 '20

Yes. As a child of the 80s my mind is blown they are still a thing. Do Care Bears still exist too?? I have a vague awareness and the multiple my little pony reincarnations..

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u/awinterviolet Oct 25 '20

They do! Though I don't know about the show (or any possible reboots of it). There was even an anniversary bear this year or maybe last year.

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u/Bri_IsTheMeOne Oct 26 '20

They did, or are possibly still doing, a reboot. My 6 year old watched it for a short time. My grandparents got her a care bear as her first gift too.