Mike Dilger muttered....



P.S.: I'm doing a little personal research to determine how and more
importantly WHEN human food has changed. For instance, carrots used
to be white and purple, and only became orange thanks to the cross
breeding of the House of Orange (16th century, Holland). I may host a
website with this data soon. Also, beet roots were never eaten by
humans until the sugar beet was introduced (cross bred from fodder
beets) with over double the sugar content of the original natural
beet. If you have a lead on other research in this area, or a
significant repository of food history, please let me know, as I am
just starting in on this. My real e mailaddres is mike at mike dilger
dot com. Thanks.


I suspect you've fallen victim to several popular urban legends.....

A bit more education into a variety of root vegetables might serve you
well. Incidentally, there's currently a available (as produce and seeds)
maroon banana, the color (along with white) of Texas A&M University where
it was developed.

Next you'll be telling us about "Ring around the rosie" and the plague.


TMO