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

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For everybody who gets aggravated when teachers don't
know what they are doing, I recommend "Dumbing Us
Down" by John Taylor Gatto.  He taught school for 30
years before beginning a campaign against our current
methods of public schooling.  The book is an easy read
and quite an eye opener.

God bless,
George Christovich

And the word became flesh and dwelt among us...

 SSKNERR@aol.com wrote:
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> Hi,
> 
> 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, came across this
> interesting narrative from a 
> fellow selling seeds on eBay (no, I'm not affiliated
> with the seller or 
> eBay).  The item number that this was copied from is
> 1226425623 and his eBay 
> id is malcolmspike, but he doesn't include a
> picture.  If I come across one 
> from the catalogues, or elsewhere, I'll send you
> another note.
> 
> << The ubiquitous orange carrot is a relatively
> recent phenomenon. It was 
> first documented in Dutch paintings in the 1600s.
> But the first cultivated 
> carrots, which originated in Afghanistan around a.d.
> 900, were purple. And 
> then in the 10th century, yellow carrots were
> documented in the Middle East. 
> The purple carrots have been cultivated in
> Afghanistan for a thousand years, 
> while white and yellow carrots were common in
> Northern Europe before the 
> 1600's These early purple and yellow carrots were
> used for human consumption 
> as well as for animal fodder. By the 14th century,
> carrots had reached Europe 
> and China. Europeans, preferring the yellow types
> for their tables, began 
> selecting for culinary attributes such as flavor,
> texture, and storability. 
> By the 1600s, white and orange carrots emerged on
> the scene, the latter being 
> prized for the human diet, probably because of its
> rich color. Over the next 
> 200 years, orange became the carrot color of choice.
> >>
> 
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> 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. Can't wait to give
> her a nice basket of
> "odd colored" fruits and vegetables to take to her
> teacher. Maybe even a jar
> of white (strawberry and banana jam).
> 
> 
>
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