Olivers muttered....

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.

It's really a maroon carrot, but maroon banana (of which there are some),
sounded better. Who made rutabagas orange anyway?

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

....or wearing little bags of herbs and silver crosses around our necks to
repell vapires, werewolves and other strange critters.