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October 10, 2009 8:51 am
A Burlington, Vermont, caller wants to know: Is horseradish so named because of this root's strong resemblance to part of a horse's anatomy? This is part of a complete episode.
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October 14, 2009 6:50 am
What I have heard is that horseradish indeed comes from German, but from the widely-used "Meerrettich". This means "sea-radish", for reasons I don't know, but more importantly, it's pronounced MARErettich, so when the plant was introduced to English, they thought it was referring to a female horse.
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May 26, 2010 2:26 am
There was a discussion about connection of horseradish and a penis. In fact in Russian language the word for horseradish is a slang for penis.