Cauliflower is cabbage with a college education
Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
Who told it first?
Earliest known source found
Mark Twain (as "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"), 1894
Where: Pudd'nhead Wilson, chapter 5, one of the calendar sayings that open the chapter
Strictly it belongs to the novel's fictional character Pudd'nhead Wilson, whose invented sayings Twain wrote. Some web copies drop or add the word "a" before "cabbage".
Older versions, rival claims and what came next
- 1894 documented Pudd'nhead Wilson - Printed in chapter 5, "The Twins Thrill Dawson's Landing". source
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