Tag: Cabbage Patch Kids

When I was a toddler, my grandparents brought me to the original BabyLand General Hospital in Cleveland, Georgia, where Cabbage Patch “babies”—not dolls—are “born”—not produced—and “adopted”—not bought. The original “hospital,” located in a converted medical facility the size of a double-wide, captured the kitschy, uncanny-valley aesthetic of the classic ’80s toy.

The conceit behind Cabbage Patch Kids is that they spring from cabbage plants in a “hospital” in Cleveland, the tiny northeast Georgia town where they were invented.