Help me internet, you're my only hope

[lizzyjit]

So, solve a little dispute between me and a coworker. In Gone with the Wind, when Scarlett pulls some sort of root vegetable out of the ground and does the whole "as God is my witness" speech, what is the root vegetable? I say potato. He says radish, which is ridiculous. Preliminary internet searches have not been fruitful.

Comments

[ex_midwinte]

Turnip! I have no proof. But I know!

Um in the book anyway. :)

[messy_hair_girl]

I think I'm on the turnip team as well. Can we make tee shirts?

[lugonn]

I too am all about the turnips.

[elzed]

I have no specific root vegetables to offer, but this has to be one of the best, most random requests yet to grace my flist.

How you doin' babes?

[wasabi_poptart]

alas, it is a radish

in the book they describe its pepperiness, and how it makes her throw up on an empty stomach

[ex_midwinte]

This actually sounds righter.

[ex_midwinte]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59710-2005Mar23.html

I will assume they fact checked the story they've pinned the article on!

[lizzyjit]

The best thing I've learned from this is another bit of trivia - the wretching noises heard on film are actually Olivia DeHavilland, because Vivien Leigh either could not or would not make the noise (depending on which version you believe).

[lugonn]

I've never seen the movie. Yet I somehow know that it is a turnip.

[lugonn]

I did a quick Internet search for 'gone with the wind turnip' and it seems to confirm my answer.

[lugonn]

Sadly, it may be radish after all. This seems to be that scene from the script:
http://www.franklymydear.com/directed/or-sc4.html
The description at the top calls it a turnip. But the script calls it a radish.

I think the real answer, which I cannot yet confirm, is that the script called it a radish, but they used a turnip as the prop.