Carrots being orange by default is thanks to the Dutch. Fucking bastards.
Leave it to the Dutch to standardise your food until everything is mediocre
Carrots (and corn) have come in a variety of colors since time immemorial.
Carrots used to be purple originally.
I just had purple carrots yesterday. Is there some controversy about them I don't know about?
Yes please I want my food looking like its grown in fae soil. My wife makes these purple potatoes that are magical.
... really? I'm bad at getting sarcasm.
Purple potatoes are very real.
They're extra cool to make mashed potatoes, fries, or chips with.
More antioxidants and slower increase in blood sugar than ordinary potatoes.
You never thought having the same standardized food throughout the year everywhere on the continent is actually weirder?
Yeah, I already buy the tri-colored carrots, and the purple are my favs.
Same price or cheaper? Then sure. Variety is good.
Yeah, my mom grows carrots in a variety of colours, not just the new orange one that's become so common. Also grows blue potatoes, purple beans and whatnot, because she has more fun with more colourful food.
Dark heirloom tomatoes are pretty neat too.
Purple is the old carrot. Orange is newer.
Fuck yeah. Multicoloured food is amazing
I have and they are delicious
Yeah, my daughter loves purple color. So making mashed potatoes and adding in purple carrots would be kinda nice.
You could use purple potatoes. Or Aussie sweet potatoes, which are orange.
Imagine actually shopping for carrots 🤣
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Which way? For me cooked carrots are horrific just like mushrooms. Good raws are super nice and crunchy.
The texture issue is with cooked carrots. However, I also don't like how carrots taste. Fresh fruits and vegetables in general, actually. Literally the fresher they are, the more they taste like themselves, so I'm one of the only people alive who prefers vegetables from fast food places 🙃
mushrooms
I feel you on the mushroom texture, but still, cooked mushrooms are my favorite """vegetable""" by a country mile. Like the texture sucks, but it's a savory vegetable. It's the cool vegetable. The rest "taste like veggies" to me. 🤮 Like I really owe mushrooms an apology for not eating them for the first half of my life.
Wow yea that is a frustrating position to be in. When you have a taste that is physically unpleasant, it really makes it inedible. Worse if others can't taste it, as I feel half don't believe it could taste different.
I can imagine boiling carrots in a stew or in the beans. Or thoroughly steamed. Or roasted with potatoes
Yeah, I like carrots in my soup.
Yes, I've eaten them many times.
I grow carrots of multiple colors all year round. They honestly all taste the same.
There’s a purple carrot in my fridge right now…
Why not?
I already did. The place I buy vegetables had purple carrots for a while, which cost more than orange carrots. I still bought them.
How were they?
Purple.
Nice. They taste like orange carrots, but with a peppery kick.
I mean, green ketchup tastes exactly the same as red one, so I'm used to colour being somewhat meaningless. Same with clear cola.
That’s because those foods are made with distilled food colorings that are designed to be as tasteless as possible.
The colors in fruits and vegetables often reflect their vitamin content/taste.
Why not? Always try new things. It's not like the grocer will recommend poisons anyway.
Bless your heart.
I have grown orange, yellow, and purple carrots. They are all yummy.
Sure. I'll also accept purple and red sweet potatoes.
Purple carrot tastes great, has hints of parsley and lovage and also paints everything purple.
I used it mostly for chicken soup and it was great, also works good in other dishes.
Purple carrots have a better taste, in my opinion. Not perfectly interchangeable with the standard orange ones, so having the option for both would be nice
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What is down, doctor? ****
Oh, I remember that question from a questionnaire I answered not too long ago. Because of the lack of choices (these kinds of questionnaires are often too narrow when it comes down to the amount of choices one can make), and because I can see the situation being less about a literal, eatable carrot and more about "receptivity to unexpected, novel things", I picked the "I'll try the purple ones" option back when I answered it.
I've had them. Well. We bought some and the very next day they were already limp and wet and grody. So maybe next batch will be better?
I dunno, I tried purple potatoes once and they were pretty awful.
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