How would you interpret the phrase ‘where is the cabbage’? “You’re not much of one for American slang, are you? For a young man of words.” “It has never come naturally to me, no. You must hear a lot of it in your business. Actors and musicians.” “Oh yes. From those clients I hear ‘Artie, where is the cabbage?’ Clams, dough, moolah, many words for the one thing they don’t have these days.” How would you interpret the phrase ‘where is the cabbage’ in the last passage? PS: the first speaker was a lawyer. And the other one was a novelist who has grown up in Mexico. Thanks! And this excerpt is taken from The Lacuna by Kingsolver.By the way, how would you interpret ‘the one thing they don’t have these days’? What do you think ‘the one thing’ refers to? The money?