On Sun, 02 Sep 2012 15:11:43 -0400, Gary > wrote:

>Janet Bostwick wrote:
>>
>> Sugar beets can be
>> the size of a basketball or larger and if one of them rolls off the
>> truck and onto your windshield, you are in trouble.
>
>Really? I never knew that. I always assumed that beets were the size of a
>baseball or so.
>
>G.
Regular red garden beets, yes. Sugar beets are a different animal.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar_Beet
Janet US