For those of you who watch QI, you will know that carrots were not always orange. They were bred to be orange by some fancy pants dude in the Netherlands to honour royalty*.
I have known this for a while, and although I eat a carrot every day for lunch I have never seen any other variety. That was until my trip to Borough Market at the weekend, where ta da! there they were.
Now on the internet for all to see, the original rainbow carrots.
*this may be a myth, but for the purpose of this blog it will have to do
Filed under: Coffee and food Tagged: Carrots, food, Market, Stephen Fry
