Olivers muttered....

> Mike Dilger muttered....
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>> P.S.: I'm doing a little personal research to determine how and more
>> importantly WHEN human food has changed. For instance, carrots used
>> to be white and purple, and only became orange thanks to the cross
>> breeding of the House of Orange (16th century, Holland). I may host
>> a website with this data soon. Also, beet roots were never eaten by
>> humans until the sugar beet was introduced (cross bred from fodder
>> beets) with over double the sugar content of the original natural
>> beet. If you have a lead on other research in this area, or a
>> significant repository of food history, please let me know, as I am
>> just starting in on this. My real e mailaddres is mike at mike dilger
>> dot com. Thanks.
>>
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> I suspect you've fallen victim to several popular urban legends.....
>
> A bit more education into a variety of root vegetables might serve you
> well. Incidentally, there's currently a available (as produce and
> seeds) maroon banana, the color (along with white) of Texas A&M
> University where it was developed.

It's really a maroon carrot, but maroon banana (of which there are some),
sounded better. Who made rutabagas orange anyway?
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> Next you'll be telling us about "Ring around the rosie" and the
> plague.
>
....or wearing little bags of herbs and silver crosses around our necks to
repell vapires, werewolves and other strange critters.