Cabbage Corp

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- Cabbage Corp, Republic City's trusted name in technology for over fifty years.

Cabbage Corp is a rival company of Future Industries, who also make automobiles. Its only known model is the Cabbage Car, a cheaper, more compact alternative to Hiroshi Sato's Satomobile. The company is currently owned by Lau Gan-Lan.

History
Cabbage Corp was founded sometime before 120 ASC by the cabbage merchant.

Following the Equalists' attack on the Pro-bending Arena, the Metalbending Police Force were informed that Cabbage Corp was manufacturing Equalist weaponry. Soon after receiving the information, the police force searched one of Cabbage Corp's warehouses and discovered Equalist propaganda and electrified gloves. Lin Beifong then arrested Lau Gan-Lan outside the company's headquarters and ordered the shutdown of Cabbage Corp in front of a crowd of reporters and journalists. However, it was later discovered that Hiroshi Sato framed the company in an attempt to distract the authorities from the fact that he had been manufacturing the Equalists' weaponry.

Headquarters


Cabbage Corp's headquarters is a large skyscraper located somewhere in Republic City. At the top of the building is a large golden roof which takes the shape of a traditional cabbage cart's roof.

Outside the building is a large statue of the cabbage merchant and his cabbage cart, standing while raising one of his beloved cabbages in the palm of his hand.

Trivia

 * Cabbage Corp is a reference to the cabbage merchant from Avatar: The Last Airbender. The company's owner even yelled, "Not my Cabbage Corp!" as he was arrested, in a manner similar to the that of cabbage merchant who often yelled, "My cabbages!" whenever his cabbage cart was destroyed. He is also voiced by the same person who voiced the cabbage merchant and the line is said in as close to the same inflection as possible with the different wording.
 * Cabbage Corp is owned by Lau Gan-Lan. His name is a pun on the Chinese words, meaning "old man" or "Mr." and , meaning "wild cabbage": his name could therefore be translated as "Old Man Cabbage" or "Mr. Cabbage".
 * Cabbage Corp provided sponsorship for a music program on the radio.
 * The competition between Cabbage Corp and Future Industries is similar to the rivalry between Ford Motor Company and Oldsmobile.
 * Some railroads remove the engines from obsolete locomotives and use their control cabs to remote control another locomotive from the far end of the train. The empty engine space is used for luggage storage. Hence, "cab-baggage cars" or "cabbage cars."