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Default Parsnip roasting

On Wed, 29 Nov 2017 13:42:10 -0500, S Viemeister
> wrote:

>On 11/29/2017 12:04 PM, Bruce wrote:
>> On Wed, 29 Nov 2017 07:39:47 -0500, S Viemeister
>>> There are white carrots. I served white carrots last week at
>>> Thanksgiving dinner, along with yellow, orange and purple ones.
>>> They didn't taste at all like parsnips...

>>
>> I've had the purple ones, but I haven't seen white ones yet.
>>

>Apparently it was the Dutch who developed the orange ones - they used to
>be purple, yellow, and white.


I didn't know that, but orange is the national colour