>"Janet Bostwick" writes:
>
>"The Joneses" wrote:
>> The Ranger wrote:
>>
>>> In a class I'm teaching, we're getting the kids to remember the
>>> letter "p" and associating it with purple. I was amazed at how many
>>> foods they were able to name right off the bat that *are* purple:
>>> potatoes, plums, grapes, eggplants, and beets are five that circled
>>> the group at different moments.
>>> What are some other purple foods that are currently available?
>>> The Ranger
>>
>> Is wine a food? Blackberries, they really are purple, mulberries are
>> kinda magenta I think-not the white ones tho. Howsa about redleaf
>> lettuce. Might look purple... And I believe there is a sort of pinto
>> kind of bean with purple splotches. There are purple green beans too (a
>> new variety?), they turn green when you cook them tho. I pickled up a
>> passle of purplish okra this year. Turned the pickle liquid a red color.
>>
>>
>The purple beans aren't a new variety, they've been around at least 35
>years. Kinda neat though how they turn green in hot water. There are
>purple peppers, tomatoes(Black Krim?--not really black), purple basil,
>lettuces, rutabaga, turnips have purple shoulders, some verities of corn,
>dried beans, onions, Swiss chard, radishes, figs,--can't think of any more
>off the top of my head. Then there are dried beans with red and white
>sploteches that when cooked turn purple.

Anyone mention purple onions... there's purple broccoli too.


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