never eaten kale is it just like lettuce but fancier?
Nah really different taste and texture, they all have like their own stalks too unlike being a big ball
hope I get to try it one day
I’m frying it in groundnut oil with spinach, garlic, salt and pepper. Really gets the people going.
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weird how carrots aren’t called oranges isn’t it?
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Think that names already been taken by Chocolate Oranges.
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Famously, rugby players get given segments of carrots at half-time
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Carrots used to be purple, but they changed them to orange during the war so that they could be seen more easily in blackouts.
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that’s probably true actually
the Dutch would like a word
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Hoogy’s gonna love this one.
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Heard this one quite a few times, seems to be a point of pride for some people
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Sorry, don’t speak dutch
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In the late 16th century, Dutch farmers began to develop orange varieties of the carrot as a mark of respect for William’s House of Orange.
That’s quite an odd mark of respect imo
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1 carrot = 1 respect
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You ever seen Return of The King? That’s what it’s going to be like when Jason Orange finally takes his place on the throne of… oh, erm… Dutchland, I guess they call it?
Take that Dutchland!
Chinese cabbage, GBOBOKCHOI
weird how we didn’t call orange things carrot before oranges got here