In 1983, The Cabbage Patch Kids were plastic-headed dolls with unique fabric bodies and yarn hair. They stood at about 16-inches tall. But their cuteness wasn't the only factor in their popularity.

The official Cabbage Patch Kids story tells of a young boy named Xavier Roberts, who was led by a Bunnybee through a waterfall, down a long tunnel, and out into a magical land where a cabbage patch grew little children. When he was asked to help, Roberts agreed to find loving homes for these Cabbage Patch Kids.

First produced in 1982 by Coleco Industries, The Cabbage Patch Kids Line is a line of cloth dolls with plastic heads with soft fabric bodies, and it is said that no two are the same.

Visiting. Pack the 'Kids™ up for a trip to the new BabyLand General® Hospital in Cleveland, Georgia, voted one of the Travel Channel's Top Ten Toylands. Beautifully situated in the North Georgia Mountains, this Southern Style home filled with Cabbage Patch Kids will capture the imagination of your entire family.

Growing 12 to 20 metres high, cabbage trees (Cordyline australis) have long narrow leaves that may be up to a metre long. It has lovely scented flowers in early summer, which turn into bluish-white berries that birds love to eat. As the plant gets old, the stems may die but new shoots grow from any part of the trunk.

Cabbage is a cruciferous vegetable. A chemical in cabbage may protect against the negative effects of radiation. The sulforaphane found in cabbage may help protect against cancer. Half a cup of cooked cabbage contains 81.5 micrograms of vitamin K.

However, the nostalgia for all things '80s means that Cabbage Patch Kids often sell for hundreds (or, in rare cases, thousands!) today. A look at eBay's sale history reveals that one early Cabbage Patch Kid sold for $3,000. Other early dolls with their original papers have fetched $2,500.

Xavier Roberts Xavier Roberts (born October 31, 1955 in Cleveland, Georgia) is best known for Cabbage Patch Kid dolls, once immensely popular soft sculpted dolls.

While it's true that certain dolls, such as some “Baldies,” “Red Fuzzies” (rare red yarn-like fuzzy hair) and some of the other very early Coleco dolls bring over $100, and even some pre-Cabbage Patch Xavier Roberts dolls can bring over $1,000, most dolls sell for $10 to $30 and have not changed much from the original ...

This particular doll, a CPK Snacktime Kid appeared briefly in the 1990s. The doll came with plastic snacks which the doll munched when the food was set in its open lips. The food moved through the mouth on metal rollers and exited into a backpack on the doll's back.

Xavier Roberts Xavier Roberts (born October 31, 1955 in Cleveland, Georgia) is best known for Cabbage Patch Kid dolls, once immensely popular soft sculpted dolls.

Cleveland, Georgia Every Cabbage Patch Doll I received as a kid had a birth certificate that cited its place of birth as Babyland General Hospital. At 42 years old, I decided to finally visit the hospital in Cleveland, Georgia, along with a few of my friends. It was worth the visit, which was a nostalgic trip back to my '80s childhood.

Cabbage-based foods

• Curtido.
• Sauerkraut.
• Sour cabbage.
• Suan cai – a traditional Chinese pickled Chinese cabbage, used for a variety of purposes. Suan cai is a unique form of pao cai, due to the ingredients used and the method of production.
• Tianjin preserved vegetable.

Cabbage (Brassica oleracea var capitata) is a small, leafy biennial producing a compact globular mass of smooth or crincled leaves wrapped over each other known as head. The outer leaves are generally larger than the inner. The stem is short and stout. Plants flower generally after winter.