Actually I still wonder about the story of baby comes from cabbage patch, because I, an easterner never hear this story from anyone irl before.

chongjunxiang said:

Actually I still wonder about the story of baby comes from cabbage patch, because I, an easterner never hear this story from anyone irl before.

In Germany the cabbage-story is unknown too. Our babies are brought by a Stork.

chongjunxiang said:

Actually I still wonder about the story of baby comes from cabbage patch, because I, an easterner never hear this story from anyone irl before.

The simplified version is people back then often fucked in cabbage plots because the discarded outer leaves can serve as makeshift mattress against the mostly level ground. That in turn causes the babies from such act named 'cabbage patch kids'. /jk

Jokes aside, it's in the same line of 'babies are delivered by storks' stories. Basically older people don't know how to break the truth about reproduction to their kids and made up stories about how the act was 'magical' and 'pure'.

Of course, there's always different interpretation on these such as old stories about 'babies appearing from cabbage patches' AKA people loves to abandon their babies on cabbage field or 'horny males fucked cabbages and those produced babies'.

chongjunxiang said:

Actually I still wonder about the story of baby comes from cabbage patch, because I, an easterner never hear this story from anyone irl before.

Scottish folklore. Traditionally, Scottish children would offer cabbage leaves to fairies to ask them for younger siblings. Cabbages were also associated with fertility in Celtic and Anglo-Saxon ("English") cultures. Though the "actually coming from a literal cabbage patch" part probably originated in America from White Anglo-Saxon parents trying to dodge "the question" from their children.

sanitaeter said:

In Germany the cabbage-story is unknown too. Our babies are brought by a Stork.

The "stork story" originated in Greek mythology (though it started off as "cranes" before both birds got conflated), then was popularized throughout Europe by Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale The Storks.