It's something like that, where I'm from. Not as extreme, but as far as I know bananas, for example, are rare outside of the Qunari homeland where it's warm and wet enough for them to grow. They'd wither up and die screaming if some poor fool ever tried it in, say, Ferelden.

[He waits for Poe to finish, then leans in to gently work the root-ball into the waiting hole. He keeps talking as he works, scooping back the dirt Poe had troweled away and gently mounding it around the plant.]

But we have these, [his lips twitch], given my translation's accurate. It's a good bunch... except maybe the cabbage. [He glances up with a grin.] I never finished it as a child.