And now for something completely different . . . as Monty Python once said.
The humble carrot may not be of riveting interest to many, but its history is fascinating and very well recorded. In my writing research I had sudden cause to wonder if carrots had always been “orange”. I wanted to write about someone ‘having hair that would rival a carrot’, which was fine until I read a claim that carrots used to be solely purple! Purple hair? Argh!
So, was Richard served purple carrots? I began to delve, and came upon the following fascinating site: http://www.carrotmuseum.co.uk/history2.html Everything you could possibly want to know about one of our most common vegetables. I think Richard’s carrots were orange, just not to EU standards.
Now to see if the turnip has a site of its own as well . . . .
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