I never knew that carrots came in different colors:
The reason modern Western carrots are orange is because they were bred that way, in the 16th and 17th centuries, in tribute to the Dutch royal House of Orange.
I wonder what people would say to yellow or purple carrots. Other than “that’s weird!” 😉
Potatos come in all colors of the rainbow in Peru as well, a lot of plant diversity has been eliminated in cultivation..
Potatoes?! Sorry, but you’re going to have to prove that one to me.
http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=akj&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&q=potatoes+peru&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=univ&ei=oLYxTNC5MYKC8gaf3bWdAw&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=1&ved=0CCMQsAQwAA
I stand corrected. And slack-jawed. I would never have believed that if I hadn’t seen multiple pictures.
(I had to clean up the URL before I could use it. If you need to put links into comments on this blog, use the syntax here. I prefer the reference-style links, they’re easier to read in the raw source.)
I read an article a long time ago about it in National Geographic. You can get information like that in the web of course, but there is nothing like the quality photography and polish that was in National G. in most web articles. Sigh.