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the orange propaganda of vegetables, sweet enough to fool you into eating your roots
means A long, tapering orange root vegetable, sweet and crunchy, eaten raw or cooked.
from From French 'carotte', from Latin 'carota', borrowed from Greek 'karoton'. The orange color we think of as essential is actually a latecomer — early carrots were purple, white, and yellow, and the now-familiar orange variety was cultivated later (Dutch growers are often credited, though that part may be more legend than fact). The deeper root may connect to a Greek term for 'head' or 'horn', possibly nodding to the shape.
- original color
- Purple and yellow long before orange existed
- dutch pride
- Orange bred to honor the House of Orange
- night vision myth
- WWII Brits faked it to hide radar
- wild ancestor
- Queen Anne's lace, a roadside weed
- sugar content
- Sweeter than many fruits by ripeness
orange carrots — domesticated in 17th century netherlands, now 87% of global carrot production
purple carrots — originally grown in persia and afghanistan before orange varieties were developed in 1600s
chantenay carrots — french heirloom variety developed in the 1800s, shorter and sweeter than imperators