Drabbage
Brassica atrox, known in Southwestern Kiravic as ralfruv and dubbed "drabbage" by the Ænglish-language soft press, is an edible, off-coloured plant in the genus Brassica, a close relative of the widely-cultivated Brassica oleracea ring species. Although it is edible and has been consumed as a famine food in Iunan Province, Kyllera, and Sauropod Oblast for centuries, the plants edible parts have a highly offensive flavour described by ethnobotanists as "revolting", "worse than death", and "deeply traumatic". Humans and mammalian herbivores typically cannot swallow the food without vomiting unless it has been thoroughly boiled, cooled, and reboiled at least five times over. This horrendous flavour is believed to have evolved as a natural defense mechanism against foraging animals.
Drabbage remains available at local markets in the inland provinces because some organic farmers inter-plant drabbage with normal cabbages as a deterrent against foraging animals. The vegetable is often employed in tavern games and informal competitions over how long participants can keep a drabbage leaf down without retching, as well as dares. Normally, however, boiled drabbage is used as compost or an ingredient in pig slop. Even pigs will refuse drabbage if it has not been repeatedly boiled.
In Coscivian folk medicine, drabbage is used as an expectorant and rapid-acting emetic.