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Re: Carrots ARE Purple, Sometimes -was: The Wait is Killing me!

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My niece's favorite color is purple. She will goggle down even the varieties
of purple carrots that I give low marks to. Want her to eat salad? Just use
red lettuce, white tomatoes and shaved purple carrots. I suppose my passion
for heirlooms and interesting colored vegetbles is messing up my sister's
kids : )

Jessica - if you find a source for black carrots, please let me know. The
only black I have are eggplants and melon.

JC - I was in boarding school in Spain for the 4th grade. One year they had
all the American kids in a separate "finance" class to teach us how things
work in the US and what our parents do. After the nun explained taxes and
the forms employers give to employees, I stood up and asked, "how do
prostitutes pay taxes?"

When my parents arrived for the "meeting" about me being hell bond, my Mom
asked the nuns if they answered my question. Of course not! Mom turned to me
and said, "they pay the same way pimps, drug dealers, politicians and nun
do, Love."

Of course later my mom asked if I knew what a prostitute was. I said no and
she exhaled rather deeply.


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From: "JC Dill" <garden@vo.cnchost.com>
To: "Square Foot Gardening List" <sqft@listbot.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2001 10:45 PM
Subject: Re: Carrots ARE Purple, Sometimes -was: The Wait is Killing me!


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> On 05:20 PM 4/3/01, SSKNERR@aol.com wrote:
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>  >I get aggravated when teachers don't know what they are talking about.
I
>  >have seen purple carrots occasionally in seed catalogues and, in trying
to
>  >find a site to show one to you
>
> <http://www.hort.wisc.edu/usdavcru/simon/publications/97hort0146.html>
>
>  ><< The ubiquitous orange carrot is a relatively recent phenomenon.
>
> Thanks for the info, because I sure didn't know that!
>
>
>  >My little 3 year old neice got in "trouble" at school for coloring the
>  >carrots {C is for carrot} orange and purple. Mostly, she got in trouble
for
>  >insisting carrots are purple too.
>
> I got into trouble when I was 5, in kindergarden.  We were given some
> crayons and told "take your favorite color and do..."  I just sat
> there.  The teacher complained to my mom, and mom asked me why I didn't do
> the coloring.  I said "she said 'take your favorite color' and my favorite
> color (bronze) wasn't there".  My mom went back to the teacher and chewed
> her out!  :-)
>
> jc (always a rebel, from a *very* early age!)
>
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