You should know carrots were initially purple
A purple carrot (or Eastern carrot, as it is also called today) would come as a major surprise for most people nowadays, but before the 17th century, that was pretty much the colour going for carrots. There were also some yellow and some white ones, but orange carrots – that just didn’t happen. So how [...]
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Tue, Mar 22, 2011
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