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TIL a Canadian town Tisdale used to have a motto "The land of rape and honey" which was changed to "Opportunity grows here" in 2016. (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago (15 children)

What does "rape and honey" mean in this context? Is this a metaphor?

As a non native English speaker i would interpret "rape and honey" into the sexual abuse and the bee food.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (4 children)

The unfortunately named rapeseed

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Oddly enough it's a total coincidence that they are homonyms. The plant's name comes from the Latin name for turnip, rapum

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago

Rapum, I hardly know 'em!

(I'm probably gonna regret posting this)

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago (1 children)

wait a fucking second, that's a Brassica

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago

Basically everything is

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

Thanks this explains a lot.

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