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A comment on Why Are Carrots Orange? It Is Political (2009).

Re:Why Are Carrots Orange? It Is Political (2009) by dklsf on Sunday March 15, 2015 @07:48PM (#9208775)
How can "some scholars doubt if orange carrots even existed prior to the 16th century", if there are drawings of orange carrots from the year 512?

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karotte#/media/File:Gemeine_M%C...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vienna_Dioscurides

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Re:Why Are Carrots Orange? It Is Political (2009) by wobbleblob on Monday March 16, 2015 @04:27AM (#9210387)
Shhht, don't waste a great opportunity to blame the Dutch for something that's probably bad.
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