Purple carrots!?!

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Saturday, October 4, 2008

OK, this is just a quick one this time 'cause I'm in the middle of learning how to do excel.  But I just had to tell you guys about these purple carrots.  So, the other day when I was grocery shopping I saw that they had these very convenient packages of all the veggies you'd need to make a batch of soup or whatever all bundled up nicely into one package.  I mean, in just one fell swoop you could pick up carrots onions garlic, and whatever other veggies you needed.  I thought "oh, how cool and convenient are those"  - and then I saw some similar looking packages with a whole bunch of different root vegetables that were for sale too.  It had carrots and parsnips and some vegetable that looked like a purple carrot that I'd never seen before.  I thought "well, I haven't had roasted root vegetables in a while, I'll go ahead and get that".  

So a couple days later, after the mad rush of assignments I had due was essentially over, and I had time to waste on roasting root vegetables, I got on google and searched for "vegetable that looks like a purple carrot" so I could find out what it was before I cooked it.  And guess what?  Those suckers are f*ing purple carrots!!!  Have you ever heard of a purple carrot?  'Cause I sure never heard of a purple carrot.  Anyway, after I made this discovery, I rushed out to the kitchen to verify with my own eyes that my purple looking-like-carrots vegetables were actually purple carrots, and pull the package out of the fridge, when L. color coded carrots
color coded carrots
 one of my corridor mates who knows Swedish, looks down at the package label (that's in Swedish) and says "Ah,  you got some mixed carrots?"  Ye gods, my illiteracy stikes again.  I had purchased a veritable shit ton of purple, white, and orange carrots. 

Anyway, I was so fascinated by the fact that purple carrots actually exist, that I read a little more about them on the internet.  What I found out is that actually all carrots were either purple or white to begin with.  And, according to this one website, the way we got orange carrots was because back in the day some Dutch people, who were carrot farmers I guess, decided to breed orange carrots to show their patriotism and support of the House of Orange. 

Yep, it's all 'cause of nationalism that we're forced to eat orange carrots today, and know nothing about their beautiful, sweet tasting ancestors. (L. doesn't believe a bit of it though.)
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~destiny~
~destiny~ on Oct 9, 2008 at 11:55PM

So pretty!
I actually have heard of purple carrots, but only because I am a freak & read food blogs all the time. :o) You are lucky to live where there are multi-colored veggies, besides at the Farmer's Market!

jata40
jata40 on Oct 16, 2008 at 07:25PM

rainbow veggies
Hey, the insides look just like our regular carrots.....looks like they dyed them. Funny. So do you have a big kitchen? Did your Mom's package ever get to you? Out computer broke and we had to get another...lost all my favorites and had to email ME to get the link again. I missed you.....

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