Curiously, this would mean both Tarble and his brother Vegeta's names pun "vegetable". Bardock (Bādakku) - A pun on a Japanese root vegetable, a "Burdock". ... "Goku" also refers to the amount of rice needed to feed a person for a year, tying in with his grandfather's name "Gohan" meaning "awakening to rice" as a pun.
