tales for dreamers: pretty cauliflowers for sale

Gone are the days when cauliflowers used to come in simple whites. Now they come in an assortment of colours — green, orange, purple (and hidden from view are the varieties in red, gold and blue)!

But look away for an instant and turn back, you will find the greens have transformed into reds, the oranges into blues, and the purples into golds. Or perhaps they merely shuffled around when you weren’t looking in order to confuse you.

Choose the colour you feel drawn to the most. 

Some say these cauliflowers aren’t meant to be cut and cooked. They’d make for fine displays at home, it is claimed. 

I don’t know about that. Cauliflowers are not flowers, after all. Smearing gaudy colours on themselves doesn’t transform them into bouquets either. But to each their own.

Others say they change colours based on your moods. If you’re angry, they’d turn red. A yellow one suggests boundless joy. Blue suggests serenity.

If both of the above statements are true — that they are meant to be displayed at home and that they reflect your mood — you might want to think about the guests you invite into your home. They’d be privy to any changes to your moods in real time!

But if these suppositions turn you off from purchasing the colourful cauliflowers, fret not. 

The truth is that the cauliflowers have taken to changing colours merely for their entertainment. 

It’s quite monotonous otherwise to keep sitting still in the grocery store, under the scrutinizing gaze of people who’ve already made up their minds about cauliflower, and to keep wondering if they’d be picked or not.

Because being ignored is just as awful as being rejected.

Well, their tactic draws attention to them, you’ve got to give them that.

Image info for previous tale: The lucky piece of wood is 'adrift' on the waters of Lake Ontario. You can catch a glimpse of it if you head down to Paletta Lakefront.