Heritage carrots
Posted Sep 21, 2019, 10:18 PM UTC
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Sadly I found most of the purple came out of mine when I cooked it, it made me sad
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They are better for roasting than boiling.
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We grew some, the purple ones seemed to stain everything purple and didn't taste very nice. So that was a crappy outcome. Will not do that again.
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I only found out the other day carrots weren't originally orange
Next thing you'll tell me is my mum lied and they don't give me superpower night vision, and it was in fact a story told to the Germans to explain away how our night bombers were so accurate and had nothing to do with radar.
is that really where that comes from? that's a great fact if true
Brilliant isn't it!
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/a-wwii-propaganda-campaign-popularized-the-myth-that-carrots-help-you-see-in-the-dark-28812484/
They were bred orange for the royal family of the Netherlands a long time ago