Bud the Spud Bud the Spud "Bud the Spud" is a song by Canadian singer-songwriting Stompin' Tom Connors. The song is an account of a trucker who hauls potatoes from Prince Edward Island, Connors' home province. "Bud the Spud" was released in 1969 on Connors' album "Bud The Spud and Other Favourites". It was written about his truck-driving friend, Bud Roberts. Connors crisscrossed Canada, performing it along with his many other songs about Canada, at first in small venues. In this way the song became known through word-of-mouth as well as through radio airplay on CBC Radio. The song was turned into an
Vegetable slang term "veggie". As an adjective, the word "vegetable" is used in scientific and technical contexts with a different and much broader meaning, namely of "related to plants" in general, edible or not—as in "vegetable matter", "vegetable kingdom", "vegetable origin", etc. The exact definition of "vegetable" may vary simply because of the many parts of a plant consumed as food worldwide—roots, stems, leaves, flowers, fruits, and seeds. The broadest definition is the word's use adjectivally to mean "matter of plant origin". More specifically, a vegetable may be defined as "any plant, part of which is used for food", a secondary