1 00:00:07,040 --> 00:00:09,280 Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to save our protection of iHeartRadio and 2 00:00:09,320 --> 00:00:12,320 Speaker 1: stuff media. I'm Annies and I'm Lauren Vogelbaum, and today 3 00:00:12,440 --> 00:00:17,040 Speaker 1: we're talking about carrots. M hmm. I have mixed emotions 4 00:00:17,400 --> 00:00:21,000 Speaker 1: about carrots. Annie has said, has said before her story 5 00:00:21,440 --> 00:00:26,920 Speaker 1: about the tragedy of carrots and how they don't actually 6 00:00:26,960 --> 00:00:31,160 Speaker 1: help with eyesight. Yes, this is a, I guess, an 7 00:00:31,160 --> 00:00:33,440 Speaker 1: insight into how my mind works, because I do give 8 00:00:33,520 --> 00:00:37,680 Speaker 1: things very grandiose labels that perhaps they don't deserve. But yeah, 9 00:00:38,080 --> 00:00:42,519 Speaker 1: the tragedy of the carrot. Long story short, if you 10 00:00:42,560 --> 00:00:44,360 Speaker 1: haven't heard it before, She ate she ate a lot 11 00:00:44,400 --> 00:00:47,800 Speaker 1: of carrots like a bag a day, trying to get 12 00:00:47,840 --> 00:00:51,560 Speaker 1: better eyesight. Yes, and my parents they sponsored this idea 13 00:00:51,960 --> 00:00:55,000 Speaker 1: man the stamp of approval, and it was just a 14 00:00:55,040 --> 00:00:59,200 Speaker 1: big lock. I had to get glasses anyway, and I 15 00:00:59,240 --> 00:01:04,040 Speaker 1: got these octagon looking things and it wasn't good. You've 16 00:01:04,080 --> 00:01:10,200 Speaker 1: gotten laser since then. It's true. It's true. I've gotten 17 00:01:10,200 --> 00:01:13,399 Speaker 1: over it. I have. I've recently returned to carrots. I 18 00:01:13,440 --> 00:01:17,160 Speaker 1: still have like a kind of kneejerk nausea that can 19 00:01:17,240 --> 00:01:20,360 Speaker 1: happen when I first eat them, but I get over it, 20 00:01:20,440 --> 00:01:23,479 Speaker 1: like coupt raw are both just in general, like, thinking 21 00:01:23,480 --> 00:01:25,800 Speaker 1: about a carrot, my stomach is just like not happy. 22 00:01:25,880 --> 00:01:29,360 Speaker 1: It's not on board. It recalls the memory of sitting 23 00:01:29,360 --> 00:01:35,800 Speaker 1: in my dark room and just eating carrots desperately. You 24 00:01:35,840 --> 00:01:38,640 Speaker 1: don't want to return to that point, do you. You don't. 25 00:01:38,880 --> 00:01:40,880 Speaker 1: That is a that is a pit of carrot despair. 26 00:01:41,080 --> 00:01:46,440 Speaker 1: It was. I'm glad you're kind of back. Ye crawled 27 00:01:46,480 --> 00:01:49,720 Speaker 1: your way out. Yeah, yeah, you know, I've got to 28 00:01:49,800 --> 00:01:52,960 Speaker 1: forgive sometimes. Yeah. I mean I I love a carrot. 29 00:01:53,000 --> 00:01:54,880 Speaker 1: I love I love a carrot in a salad. I 30 00:01:54,920 --> 00:01:57,919 Speaker 1: love I love just carrot sticks dipped in hummus. Maybe 31 00:01:59,560 --> 00:02:03,120 Speaker 1: I like I like a baked carrot, roasted. Yeah. So 32 00:02:03,240 --> 00:02:07,000 Speaker 1: you're you're on board and pro carrot, pro carrot. Okay, 33 00:02:07,000 --> 00:02:10,840 Speaker 1: well there is a lot to be said about the carrot, 34 00:02:10,840 --> 00:02:13,440 Speaker 1: it turns out, and um, thanks right off the bat 35 00:02:13,480 --> 00:02:16,639 Speaker 1: to the carrot Museum on this one, big thanks. Yeah, 36 00:02:16,680 --> 00:02:19,200 Speaker 1: what what's your all on that one? Just carrot museum dot. 37 00:02:19,639 --> 00:02:23,080 Speaker 1: So it's UK dot c dot UK. Yeah. Um. But 38 00:02:23,280 --> 00:02:27,959 Speaker 1: very helpful, Yes, helpful, extremely thorough and helpful in answering 39 00:02:27,960 --> 00:02:37,760 Speaker 1: our question carrots. What are they? Well, a carrot is 40 00:02:37,800 --> 00:02:40,440 Speaker 1: a root vegetable, which means it's a type of vegetable 41 00:02:40,760 --> 00:02:43,560 Speaker 1: that a plant grows for itself to provide a source 42 00:02:43,560 --> 00:02:47,160 Speaker 1: of hydration and nutrition During cold or dry months, they'll 43 00:02:47,160 --> 00:02:49,320 Speaker 1: put down what's called a tap root and and bulk 44 00:02:49,360 --> 00:02:52,680 Speaker 1: it up in preparation for growing flowers and seeds either 45 00:02:52,919 --> 00:02:56,080 Speaker 1: the following spring or later on that season. But that 46 00:02:56,240 --> 00:02:58,600 Speaker 1: tap root is a good source of nutrition for us 47 00:02:58,680 --> 00:03:04,400 Speaker 1: humans too, sorry carrots. So yeah. The resulting temper is 48 00:03:04,480 --> 00:03:08,200 Speaker 1: usually an oblong, tapered cylinder around six inches long, maybe 49 00:03:08,280 --> 00:03:10,560 Speaker 1: the like fifteen centimes. But they can be more or 50 00:03:10,600 --> 00:03:12,760 Speaker 1: less bulbous, and they can get real big, like up 51 00:03:12,800 --> 00:03:15,280 Speaker 1: to two ft which is about two thirds of a meter. 52 00:03:15,440 --> 00:03:18,160 Speaker 1: I have seen I have witnessed a carrot like like 53 00:03:18,280 --> 00:03:20,840 Speaker 1: one and a half to two ft long, like like 54 00:03:20,840 --> 00:03:22,440 Speaker 1: as thick as my arm, like it was. It was 55 00:03:22,440 --> 00:03:26,200 Speaker 1: a little bit grotesque. Yeah, I'm immediately a little on 56 00:03:26,360 --> 00:03:28,880 Speaker 1: edge about that. What was going on with this carrot? 57 00:03:28,960 --> 00:03:31,040 Speaker 1: It could have been used as a bludgeond it was. 58 00:03:31,720 --> 00:03:34,000 Speaker 1: It was like billy club sized anyway, use it like 59 00:03:34,040 --> 00:03:38,320 Speaker 1: a cane maybe, yeah, sure, like a gnome could like 60 00:03:38,440 --> 00:03:41,400 Speaker 1: use it as a cane. That is so darling and 61 00:03:41,440 --> 00:03:44,800 Speaker 1: I'm writing that into my next D and D character. Perfect. 62 00:03:45,400 --> 00:03:49,600 Speaker 1: Oh heck, oh man, that's gonna go bad quickly anyway. Alright, Um, 63 00:03:49,880 --> 00:03:53,600 Speaker 1: most varietals of carrots that grow these days are orange, 64 00:03:53,640 --> 00:03:56,000 Speaker 1: but they can come in white, yellow, red, violet, and 65 00:03:56,000 --> 00:03:57,800 Speaker 1: like a all the way up to a deep purple 66 00:03:57,880 --> 00:04:00,520 Speaker 1: sort of black as well. They tend to be a 67 00:04:00,520 --> 00:04:04,360 Speaker 1: little bitter and herbal, but mostly sweet and kind of earthy. Yeah. 68 00:04:04,800 --> 00:04:11,200 Speaker 1: Botanical classification is Doctus kurotam subspecies sativus as sativus, meaning cultivated. 69 00:04:12,680 --> 00:04:15,560 Speaker 1: The carrot is a member of the umbellafur family. W 70 00:04:15,760 --> 00:04:19,279 Speaker 1: t F you say, I do. It's a very large 71 00:04:19,279 --> 00:04:23,920 Speaker 1: group of flowering plants. Um personal personally, celery, coriander, caraway, 72 00:04:23,920 --> 00:04:28,480 Speaker 1: and hemlock are all related. Is hemlock a suspicious thing? 73 00:04:28,680 --> 00:04:31,200 Speaker 1: Oh it's it's poisonous. Well, I mean some varieties of it, 74 00:04:31,320 --> 00:04:35,800 Speaker 1: some varieties of our poisonous. Yeah, okay, good to know. Yeah, yeah, 75 00:04:36,800 --> 00:04:39,440 Speaker 1: be aware of anyone who's like, have this hemlock salad friend, 76 00:04:40,279 --> 00:04:42,200 Speaker 1: like later today, this is this fact is going to 77 00:04:42,279 --> 00:04:45,320 Speaker 1: save my life. That's like the story of how my 78 00:04:45,400 --> 00:04:47,040 Speaker 1: day is going to play. And I can LaDue tell oh, 79 00:04:47,160 --> 00:04:49,839 Speaker 1: I I either do or do not envy you the 80 00:04:49,880 --> 00:04:55,040 Speaker 1: rest of your day, I'll say, proudly and confidently no thanks. 81 00:04:55,279 --> 00:04:58,360 Speaker 1: When I get offered hemlock later, you're welcome. Thank you. 82 00:04:59,680 --> 00:05:03,400 Speaker 1: Um those uh, those leaves and flowers and seeds are 83 00:05:03,440 --> 00:05:06,360 Speaker 1: also edible, though, um there's there's lots of recipes out 84 00:05:06,400 --> 00:05:08,400 Speaker 1: there for using carrot leaves, which are a little herbal 85 00:05:08,400 --> 00:05:11,480 Speaker 1: and a little bitter and kind of earthy and carroty 86 00:05:12,760 --> 00:05:17,120 Speaker 1: carty flavor. Yet yeah, um uh sort of like sort 87 00:05:17,160 --> 00:05:21,039 Speaker 1: of like a like an earthier, bitterer parsley. Oh yeah, 88 00:05:22,000 --> 00:05:23,960 Speaker 1: I've not eaten the flowers or seeds, but I hear 89 00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:28,400 Speaker 1: they're a little floral and as you might assume, and 90 00:05:28,440 --> 00:05:31,640 Speaker 1: a little like like like warm, earthy spicy, not like 91 00:05:31,680 --> 00:05:35,240 Speaker 1: spicy hot, but like you know, spicy spice. Sure we're 92 00:05:35,279 --> 00:05:38,960 Speaker 1: making gestures. Yeah, yeah, that's very helpful. And uh. The 93 00:05:38,960 --> 00:05:41,720 Speaker 1: seeds are also processed into oil, which is mostly used 94 00:05:41,720 --> 00:05:44,680 Speaker 1: in skin care products. It's supposed to be real good 95 00:05:44,720 --> 00:05:46,840 Speaker 1: for the skin, or according to the websites that we're 96 00:05:46,839 --> 00:05:50,040 Speaker 1: selling it that I don't know. I have been burned before, 97 00:05:50,120 --> 00:05:52,599 Speaker 1: is all I say. I would look into your carrot 98 00:05:52,640 --> 00:05:56,119 Speaker 1: facts Oh my goodness. Absolutely, but they got some stuff 99 00:05:56,160 --> 00:05:58,800 Speaker 1: going on. When it comes to nutrition, they do. Carrots 100 00:05:58,800 --> 00:06:01,280 Speaker 1: are low and fat and high water, fiber and micro 101 00:06:01,360 --> 00:06:04,200 Speaker 1: nutrients of various kinds. If you're watching your sugar, do 102 00:06:04,320 --> 00:06:07,240 Speaker 1: be aware that carrots and perhaps especially carrot juice are 103 00:06:07,279 --> 00:06:10,200 Speaker 1: on the sugarier side of vegetables. Um. But I mean 104 00:06:10,240 --> 00:06:14,120 Speaker 1: you know they're they're pretty great for you overall. Yes, yes, yes, yes, 105 00:06:14,200 --> 00:06:17,840 Speaker 1: but it's true at eating a boatload of carrots will 106 00:06:17,880 --> 00:06:20,680 Speaker 1: not improve your night vision unless you are deficient in 107 00:06:20,800 --> 00:06:24,520 Speaker 1: vitamin A and I can speak from experience, but if 108 00:06:24,560 --> 00:06:27,480 Speaker 1: you eat enough, it can turn your skin orange. I 109 00:06:27,520 --> 00:06:29,720 Speaker 1: saw that an episode of Scrubs, so it's true. For sure, 110 00:06:30,680 --> 00:06:32,560 Speaker 1: it does happen to be true. I can't I can't 111 00:06:32,560 --> 00:06:37,200 Speaker 1: tell whether the Scrubs connection is an accurate one. But yes, yeah, 112 00:06:37,279 --> 00:06:39,400 Speaker 1: pretty much, you just ate a bunch of carrots. It 113 00:06:39,520 --> 00:06:41,520 Speaker 1: was orange. It was making fun of House. That whole 114 00:06:41,520 --> 00:06:45,719 Speaker 1: episode was making fun of Else's great Oh I miss Scrubs. 115 00:06:46,560 --> 00:06:51,479 Speaker 1: Um yeah, orange orange carrots are high in beta carotene, 116 00:06:51,760 --> 00:06:55,120 Speaker 1: which is a bright red orange pigment that our bodies 117 00:06:55,200 --> 00:06:59,080 Speaker 1: used to make a vitamin A. Um. Uh, this compound 118 00:06:59,080 --> 00:07:02,200 Speaker 1: and other carrotenoi. It's we're named after carrots. Get it. 119 00:07:02,279 --> 00:07:05,880 Speaker 1: Carrot and vitamin A is indeed necessary for good vision. 120 00:07:06,000 --> 00:07:09,080 Speaker 1: Um Your your eyes photoreceptors needed to to grow and 121 00:07:09,160 --> 00:07:12,400 Speaker 1: maintain themselves. It also has rolls in a skin bone, 122 00:07:12,440 --> 00:07:16,400 Speaker 1: immune and reproductive growth and function, and stores of it 123 00:07:16,560 --> 00:07:19,040 Speaker 1: may build up in subcutaneous fat, which is part of 124 00:07:19,040 --> 00:07:20,960 Speaker 1: why your skin can turn orange if you get too 125 00:07:21,040 --> 00:07:23,600 Speaker 1: much of it. It's also why adults fat tends to 126 00:07:23,600 --> 00:07:30,040 Speaker 1: be yellow instead of white. Other colors of carrots have 127 00:07:30,120 --> 00:07:33,360 Speaker 1: other health benefits as well. Purple ones have antioxidants. Red 128 00:07:33,360 --> 00:07:35,600 Speaker 1: ones have some of that likecopene that we are always 129 00:07:35,640 --> 00:07:40,400 Speaker 1: talking about, and geneticists suspect that the gene responsible for 130 00:07:40,600 --> 00:07:43,720 Speaker 1: beta carotene and carrots is the same one that turns 131 00:07:44,080 --> 00:07:47,400 Speaker 1: leaves yellow and orange and red in the fall. After that, 132 00:07:47,440 --> 00:07:51,320 Speaker 1: the leaves like mask of green chlorophyll has cut out 133 00:07:51,320 --> 00:07:54,800 Speaker 1: for the winter. Yeah. Um. These pigments apparently act as 134 00:07:54,800 --> 00:07:57,640 Speaker 1: like a sort of sunscreen, protecting plants from from UV damage. 135 00:07:57,640 --> 00:07:59,960 Speaker 1: They're always there, but like the green of the chlora 136 00:08:00,000 --> 00:08:04,480 Speaker 1: pill is just over top of it. Um. A mutation 137 00:08:05,320 --> 00:08:07,880 Speaker 1: the geneticists think might have set this gene to work 138 00:08:07,880 --> 00:08:10,360 Speaker 1: in the root of some wild carrots, and then farmers 139 00:08:10,480 --> 00:08:13,480 Speaker 1: might have selected those plants and propagated them. Um a 140 00:08:13,520 --> 00:08:17,160 Speaker 1: group of researchers sequence to the carrots genome. It is 141 00:08:17,320 --> 00:08:20,920 Speaker 1: over thirty two jeans long, which is about average for 142 00:08:20,960 --> 00:08:22,520 Speaker 1: a plant, but like half again as long as the 143 00:08:22,600 --> 00:08:26,440 Speaker 1: human genome, which I find fascinating, Yes, is fascinating. It 144 00:08:26,480 --> 00:08:30,520 Speaker 1: automatically makes me think of Jurassic Park because Mr GNA 145 00:08:30,720 --> 00:08:36,960 Speaker 1: was so memorable. So carrot numbers. Yes, the carrot is 146 00:08:37,000 --> 00:08:40,520 Speaker 1: in the world's top ten most important vegetable crops. Worldwide. 147 00:08:40,559 --> 00:08:43,439 Speaker 1: Consumption of carrots has quadrupled in the past forty years. 148 00:08:44,520 --> 00:08:48,520 Speaker 1: In China was the world's largest carrot producer, accounting for 149 00:08:48,520 --> 00:08:53,720 Speaker 1: forty five Russia and Uzbekistan follow way behind, but their 150 00:08:53,840 --> 00:08:57,120 Speaker 1: second third U thirteen point thirty seven million tons a 151 00:08:57,200 --> 00:09:01,440 Speaker 1: year are produced. And do that and six the average 152 00:09:01,440 --> 00:09:04,760 Speaker 1: American ate twelve pounds of raw carrots per year, as 153 00:09:05,559 --> 00:09:09,520 Speaker 1: it was down to eight point seven pounds the decline. 154 00:09:09,600 --> 00:09:12,439 Speaker 1: I see, Yeah, but they are the sixth most consumed 155 00:09:12,480 --> 00:09:17,520 Speaker 1: vegetable in the United States. Be interested to see that list? Yeah, 156 00:09:17,520 --> 00:09:21,199 Speaker 1: I didn't see it. I just saw that fact. Yeah, 157 00:09:21,200 --> 00:09:23,880 Speaker 1: I'm just curious. Carrots can be eating in all kinds 158 00:09:23,880 --> 00:09:26,640 Speaker 1: of ways, stewed, roasted, glaze from world, in juices and 159 00:09:26,760 --> 00:09:30,160 Speaker 1: soups and salads and stir fries and desserts, raw as 160 00:09:30,200 --> 00:09:33,000 Speaker 1: the nose to your snow woman or snowman. You can 161 00:09:33,000 --> 00:09:35,960 Speaker 1: make instruments out of them or use them as instruments. Sure, 162 00:09:36,880 --> 00:09:38,680 Speaker 1: the leaves can add a pop of color as a garnish, 163 00:09:38,800 --> 00:09:40,720 Speaker 1: or you can cook them into any dish of greens, 164 00:09:40,800 --> 00:09:42,959 Speaker 1: or use them in a soups or stocks to build flavor. 165 00:09:43,440 --> 00:09:46,560 Speaker 1: In northern India, a fermented drink of black carrots and 166 00:09:46,720 --> 00:09:49,839 Speaker 1: or beats spiced with salt, red pepper and mustard seed 167 00:09:50,080 --> 00:09:53,400 Speaker 1: is enjoyed, especially around Holy It's called kanji and it's 168 00:09:53,400 --> 00:09:57,800 Speaker 1: a little bit like a kombucha. Oh yeah, yeah. Well, 169 00:09:57,840 --> 00:10:02,280 Speaker 1: these days, baby care make up a huge part of 170 00:10:02,280 --> 00:10:06,920 Speaker 1: the carrot industry. Up to sevent Baby carrots and apple 171 00:10:06,920 --> 00:10:11,320 Speaker 1: slices are the frequent healthy alternatives for fries, like instead 172 00:10:11,360 --> 00:10:13,800 Speaker 1: of fries, you can get baby carrots for children at 173 00:10:13,840 --> 00:10:16,320 Speaker 1: fast food chains and Disney World. I kept seeing disney World, 174 00:10:16,360 --> 00:10:21,160 Speaker 1: not Disneyland, disney World, typically disney World. So anyone who's 175 00:10:21,160 --> 00:10:27,600 Speaker 1: been to Disneyland recently writ back um. A two thousand 176 00:10:27,679 --> 00:10:29,840 Speaker 1: seven report found that baby carrots have been on the 177 00:10:29,920 --> 00:10:33,400 Speaker 1: upswing since the nineteen nineties, which we'll get into it 178 00:10:33,480 --> 00:10:35,600 Speaker 1: in a in our history bit, but that's pretty much 179 00:10:35,679 --> 00:10:38,680 Speaker 1: right after they were invented or invented, you could buy them, 180 00:10:39,000 --> 00:10:41,520 Speaker 1: um and they are one of the most popular items 181 00:10:41,559 --> 00:10:45,920 Speaker 1: in the produced aisle, more popular than potatoes. Wow. I 182 00:10:46,080 --> 00:10:52,120 Speaker 1: find that difficult. Within the one point three billion dollars 183 00:10:52,200 --> 00:10:55,760 Speaker 1: of fresh cut produce sector, baby carrot sales account for 184 00:10:55,800 --> 00:10:59,120 Speaker 1: fifty percent of that goodness. That is that is a 185 00:10:59,240 --> 00:11:02,000 Speaker 1: number right there. That's ridiculous number. In two thousand nine, 186 00:11:02,040 --> 00:11:05,719 Speaker 1: bolt House launched the eatam Like Junk Food campaign, the 187 00:11:05,960 --> 00:11:08,960 Speaker 1: um here being baby carrots. I remember seeing those billboards. 188 00:11:09,240 --> 00:11:11,439 Speaker 1: I do not, but there you go, there you go. 189 00:11:12,400 --> 00:11:15,440 Speaker 1: In the U s alone, two million tons of carrots 190 00:11:15,440 --> 00:11:17,840 Speaker 1: are processed into baby carrots, and sales come out to 191 00:11:17,840 --> 00:11:21,960 Speaker 1: be about four million dollars a year. Wow. Yeah, nobody 192 00:11:22,000 --> 00:11:27,439 Speaker 1: puts baby carrot in a corner. Oh. I feel like 193 00:11:27,480 --> 00:11:30,280 Speaker 1: I should have seen it coming. I didn't know what 194 00:11:30,440 --> 00:11:33,280 Speaker 1: was coming either, but you know, I just gotta let 195 00:11:33,520 --> 00:11:37,040 Speaker 1: the terrible jokes go. And that is about the state 196 00:11:37,040 --> 00:11:39,439 Speaker 1: of carrots. Yes, um, and it brings us to our 197 00:11:39,480 --> 00:11:41,840 Speaker 1: history section. But first it brings us to a quick 198 00:11:41,840 --> 00:11:52,640 Speaker 1: break for a word from our sponsor. Come we're back, 199 00:11:52,640 --> 00:11:55,719 Speaker 1: thank you sponsored, Yes, thank you. There's a lot of 200 00:11:55,800 --> 00:11:58,040 Speaker 1: history when it comes to carrots. There is. They've been 201 00:11:58,040 --> 00:12:02,120 Speaker 1: around for a long time. Yes they Archaeologists have found 202 00:12:02,240 --> 00:12:05,560 Speaker 1: prehistoric carrot seeds that suggests the seed of the wild carrot, 203 00:12:05,840 --> 00:12:09,960 Speaker 1: originating in Europe and southwestern Asia, was used medicinally or 204 00:12:10,000 --> 00:12:12,080 Speaker 1: as a spice. And some of these seeds are five 205 00:12:12,120 --> 00:12:16,880 Speaker 1: thousand years old. Ancient Greeks and Romans had carrots. Um. 206 00:12:16,920 --> 00:12:19,360 Speaker 1: These weren't the kind were familiar with, but a wild 207 00:12:19,400 --> 00:12:22,400 Speaker 1: variety UM that came in a bunch of different colors, 208 00:12:22,440 --> 00:12:25,400 Speaker 1: typically white though, and typically kind of forked. Yeah. And 209 00:12:25,520 --> 00:12:27,840 Speaker 1: these are bitter with a with a pleasant like spice 210 00:12:27,880 --> 00:12:31,000 Speaker 1: pine earth sort of flavor, but mostly better. Um. But 211 00:12:31,040 --> 00:12:33,600 Speaker 1: at the time these wild carrots were probably mostly grown 212 00:12:33,640 --> 00:12:37,040 Speaker 1: and used for their leaves and their seeds. Um. They 213 00:12:37,040 --> 00:12:39,520 Speaker 1: have these these lovely sprays of tiny white flowers that 214 00:12:39,559 --> 00:12:43,120 Speaker 1: looks sort of like like fireworks going off or like lace. 215 00:12:43,160 --> 00:12:45,280 Speaker 1: They would eventually come to be known as Queen Ann's 216 00:12:45,320 --> 00:12:47,280 Speaker 1: lace in North America, but that would take, you know, 217 00:12:47,360 --> 00:12:51,440 Speaker 1: a few thousand years, give or take. Plenty and Dioscurieties 218 00:12:51,480 --> 00:12:55,800 Speaker 1: claimed these wild carrots were afrodesiacs. If you're playing bingo, 219 00:12:55,880 --> 00:12:59,400 Speaker 1: there you go. And also they were good for venomous bites. 220 00:13:00,200 --> 00:13:02,920 Speaker 1: Or probably they were referring to carrots, they could have 221 00:13:03,000 --> 00:13:07,920 Speaker 1: also been referring to parsnips. Histories, mysteries. There's a lot 222 00:13:08,040 --> 00:13:10,960 Speaker 1: of confusion around those two. Um they might have been 223 00:13:11,040 --> 00:13:14,960 Speaker 1: used interchangeably for a while. Plenty wrote of the carrot 224 00:13:15,040 --> 00:13:18,240 Speaker 1: or maybe the parsnip, that the second Emperor of Rome, 225 00:13:18,400 --> 00:13:22,680 Speaker 1: Tiberius Claudius Nero, adored carrot route so much that he 226 00:13:22,800 --> 00:13:25,080 Speaker 1: ordered that a shipment be brought to him every year. 227 00:13:25,960 --> 00:13:27,880 Speaker 1: The stories are pretty sure. The carrot is what the 228 00:13:27,920 --> 00:13:30,719 Speaker 1: Filus of Sifnos was referring to in third century b 229 00:13:30,800 --> 00:13:34,400 Speaker 1: C when discussing it as a diuretic, and sometime around 230 00:13:34,440 --> 00:13:37,680 Speaker 1: one hundred b C my three Datas, the sixth king 231 00:13:37,760 --> 00:13:41,280 Speaker 1: of Pontius had a recipe for preventing boys and that 232 00:13:41,360 --> 00:13:46,880 Speaker 1: included carrot seeds. Some evidence suggests that ancient Egyptians eight carrots, 233 00:13:46,960 --> 00:13:48,920 Speaker 1: or at least were familiar with them. But there's nothing 234 00:13:49,360 --> 00:13:52,120 Speaker 1: definitive um. And the garden carrot first showed up in 235 00:13:52,360 --> 00:13:55,560 Speaker 1: Roman writings and to interra see when Rome fell and 236 00:13:55,640 --> 00:13:57,920 Speaker 1: ushered in the Dark Ages in Europe, the carrot had 237 00:13:57,920 --> 00:14:01,079 Speaker 1: to be reintroduced to that count in it. That's what 238 00:14:01,160 --> 00:14:03,400 Speaker 1: the lack of carrots in the records that we do 239 00:14:03,559 --> 00:14:06,880 Speaker 1: have really don't have from that times just um. King 240 00:14:06,960 --> 00:14:11,560 Speaker 1: Charloagne did include them and his seven list of plants 241 00:14:11,600 --> 00:14:15,640 Speaker 1: he suggested for cultivation for western and Central Europe. The 242 00:14:15,720 --> 00:14:19,240 Speaker 1: carrots we eat today are a domesticated version of the 243 00:14:19,280 --> 00:14:22,520 Speaker 1: wild carrots. Historians think it was domesticated in Central Asia 244 00:14:22,560 --> 00:14:25,040 Speaker 1: around nine d to a thousand see, and at the 245 00:14:25,080 --> 00:14:29,280 Speaker 1: time the carrot was probably more likely to be purple 246 00:14:29,400 --> 00:14:35,120 Speaker 1: or yellow. There are two distinct cultivated carrot groups that 247 00:14:35,200 --> 00:14:37,680 Speaker 1: kind of muck up history here and very much confused me. 248 00:14:37,760 --> 00:14:40,960 Speaker 1: But one is the Eastern Asiatic carrot, which is often 249 00:14:41,000 --> 00:14:44,320 Speaker 1: purple but sometimes yellow, and the Western or carrotene carrot, 250 00:14:44,480 --> 00:14:47,240 Speaker 1: which is yellow, white, red, or orange. And both of 251 00:14:47,280 --> 00:14:50,400 Speaker 1: these types came out of the same domestication of these 252 00:14:50,400 --> 00:14:53,960 Speaker 1: wild mostly white carrots um in in yeah, what's now 253 00:14:54,080 --> 00:14:58,720 Speaker 1: Afghanistan or thereabouts. The farmers. They're developed separate branches, or 254 00:14:58,760 --> 00:15:01,840 Speaker 1: so we assume of yellow purples and like yellow to 255 00:15:01,880 --> 00:15:06,680 Speaker 1: reds and both spread from there. Yeah, boop to carrot pass. 256 00:15:07,360 --> 00:15:09,200 Speaker 1: One legend for around this time tells the story of 257 00:15:09,200 --> 00:15:13,160 Speaker 1: a white carrot becoming the red carrot alongside the persecutions 258 00:15:13,160 --> 00:15:16,440 Speaker 1: of the first Christians. Yeah, the story goes that in 259 00:15:16,480 --> 00:15:18,880 Speaker 1: the town of Gaul of Pagan stabbed a Christian woman 260 00:15:19,000 --> 00:15:22,800 Speaker 1: named Marie, and her blood stained the white carrots that 261 00:15:22,840 --> 00:15:27,040 Speaker 1: she had been peeling. I love the number of of 262 00:15:27,040 --> 00:15:29,680 Speaker 1: of tails that involved, Like, oh, this fruit is red 263 00:15:29,760 --> 00:15:34,320 Speaker 1: because blood got on it. It's great. Yeah, yeah, it 264 00:15:34,440 --> 00:15:38,800 Speaker 1: was pretty metal. Thanks to traders and the Silk Road 265 00:15:38,880 --> 00:15:42,200 Speaker 1: and possibly Kubla Khan, the domesticated carrot made it to 266 00:15:42,240 --> 00:15:45,880 Speaker 1: Europe in the eleventh to fourteenth century, um to India, China, 267 00:15:45,880 --> 00:15:49,880 Speaker 1: and Japan sometime in the fourteen to seventeen centuries. The 268 00:15:49,920 --> 00:15:52,720 Speaker 1: fact that it was purple piqued people's interests and got 269 00:15:52,800 --> 00:15:55,680 Speaker 1: people curious if there were more color options out there 270 00:15:55,760 --> 00:15:59,400 Speaker 1: for them. Northwestern Europe and China were cultivating carrots by 271 00:15:59,400 --> 00:16:04,280 Speaker 1: the century CE, and European colonists accidentally brought carrots with 272 00:16:04,360 --> 00:16:07,320 Speaker 1: them when they arrived to the America's where they grew 273 00:16:07,400 --> 00:16:12,160 Speaker 1: as weeds. From some things I read. The orange carrot 274 00:16:12,200 --> 00:16:14,800 Speaker 1: first started appearing in Germany and Spain in the fifteenth 275 00:16:14,800 --> 00:16:18,400 Speaker 1: and sixteenth century. Yeah, and and geneticists think that this 276 00:16:18,520 --> 00:16:20,840 Speaker 1: developed out of further tooling with the yellow carrots from 277 00:16:20,880 --> 00:16:23,960 Speaker 1: the Middle East around that time. The yellow carrot and 278 00:16:24,000 --> 00:16:26,520 Speaker 1: the purple carrot existed at the same time, but people, 279 00:16:27,000 --> 00:16:30,880 Speaker 1: or European people at least, preferred the taste and cooking 280 00:16:30,920 --> 00:16:34,640 Speaker 1: properties of the yellow carrot, or maybe just the color. Yeah, maybe, 281 00:16:35,160 --> 00:16:37,600 Speaker 1: we're not sure. We don't know. We can't put our 282 00:16:37,800 --> 00:16:41,600 Speaker 1: our own interpretations onto these people of the past. Spanish 283 00:16:41,600 --> 00:16:44,640 Speaker 1: paintings of markets from around this time frequently had carrots 284 00:16:44,680 --> 00:16:46,520 Speaker 1: in them. That's one of the way we know that 285 00:16:46,600 --> 00:16:49,200 Speaker 1: they were around. Yeah, a lot, a lot of paintings 286 00:16:49,480 --> 00:16:52,520 Speaker 1: help us figure this out, Yes they did. The first 287 00:16:52,600 --> 00:16:55,040 Speaker 1: recorded use of the English word carrot took place in 288 00:16:55,240 --> 00:16:58,600 Speaker 1: fifteen thirty and it derived from the Middle French word carrots, 289 00:16:58,640 --> 00:17:01,520 Speaker 1: which derived from the Latin carrota from a Greek word 290 00:17:01,560 --> 00:17:05,120 Speaker 1: in there maybe and then an Indo European word meaning horn. 291 00:17:05,720 --> 00:17:08,760 Speaker 1: Since Old Simon carrots were white for a long time 292 00:17:08,800 --> 00:17:12,720 Speaker 1: Old English did not differentiate between them and parstups HiT's 293 00:17:12,800 --> 00:17:15,560 Speaker 1: the confusion. To this day, a lot of languages still 294 00:17:15,640 --> 00:17:17,439 Speaker 1: use the same word for carrot as they do for 295 00:17:17,720 --> 00:17:25,520 Speaker 1: roots root in general. Yeah, Queen Elizabeth the First loved carrots. Yeah. 296 00:17:25,680 --> 00:17:27,760 Speaker 1: Once there, It goes that a deputy to the English 297 00:17:27,800 --> 00:17:33,119 Speaker 1: court presented her a wreath of diamond encrusted carrots and 298 00:17:33,240 --> 00:17:38,000 Speaker 1: a tup of butter, and she calmly went to removing 299 00:17:38,040 --> 00:17:41,119 Speaker 1: the diamonds, sent the carrots and butter back to the kitchen, 300 00:17:41,200 --> 00:17:43,880 Speaker 1: and the cook's returned to the dish as buttered carrots 301 00:17:45,400 --> 00:17:48,480 Speaker 1: put diamonds in my food. I'm gonna break a tooth 302 00:17:48,520 --> 00:17:52,000 Speaker 1: on that. That's right, Come on now, I don't have 303 00:17:52,040 --> 00:17:56,200 Speaker 1: spare teeth. M m m m mmm mmmmm. In the sixteenth century, 304 00:17:56,520 --> 00:17:59,520 Speaker 1: carrots arrived in the Netherlands, and there is a lot 305 00:17:59,600 --> 00:18:04,639 Speaker 1: of myth or hype around this part of the story. Um, 306 00:18:04,680 --> 00:18:09,240 Speaker 1: but here goes so people liked this yellow carrot more 307 00:18:09,400 --> 00:18:12,400 Speaker 1: in Europe, and when the carrot arrived to the Netherlands, 308 00:18:12,440 --> 00:18:16,200 Speaker 1: scientist there started experimenting with this yellow carrot, breeding together 309 00:18:16,440 --> 00:18:19,600 Speaker 1: darker yellow with darker yellow until they got the long, 310 00:18:20,000 --> 00:18:23,680 Speaker 1: sweet orange version were more familiar with the Dutch. Long 311 00:18:23,720 --> 00:18:27,000 Speaker 1: orange firs showed up in written records in and I 312 00:18:27,040 --> 00:18:31,440 Speaker 1: know what you're thinking, A handful of you. But wait, 313 00:18:32,240 --> 00:18:35,600 Speaker 1: I thought the Dutch bred them for William the Orange. 314 00:18:35,760 --> 00:18:38,880 Speaker 1: You know, the dude, the dude who led the sixteenth 315 00:18:38,880 --> 00:18:41,920 Speaker 1: century rebellion against the Spanish Habsburg monarchy, ruling over a 316 00:18:41,960 --> 00:18:45,840 Speaker 1: big chunk of northwestern Europe. You know, William the Orange. 317 00:18:45,880 --> 00:18:50,639 Speaker 1: Of course, well there's no real proof to that, no, no, 318 00:18:53,280 --> 00:18:58,520 Speaker 1: whatever the case, the carrot did become associated with house orange, 319 00:18:58,840 --> 00:19:02,520 Speaker 1: and at this time a large, conspicuous, one might say, 320 00:19:02,680 --> 00:19:06,639 Speaker 1: display of carrots could be viewed and was sometimes intended 321 00:19:06,720 --> 00:19:10,399 Speaker 1: as a provocation, a declaration of support for one of 322 00:19:10,440 --> 00:19:14,240 Speaker 1: William the oranges exiled descendants. I love the idea of 323 00:19:14,240 --> 00:19:18,800 Speaker 1: a conspicuous display. How many carrots is that? Yeah? And 324 00:19:18,880 --> 00:19:22,720 Speaker 1: you're like wearing them as eerie like a carrot necklace. 325 00:19:22,920 --> 00:19:25,639 Speaker 1: A wreath of carrots is a crown. Yeah, and the 326 00:19:25,680 --> 00:19:29,040 Speaker 1: guards are thinking something might be going on. That's a 327 00:19:29,080 --> 00:19:37,800 Speaker 1: pretty conspicuous display of carrots, your boutineer. Yes. Another story 328 00:19:37,840 --> 00:19:40,920 Speaker 1: goes that breeders were trying to hop on the Sweet 329 00:19:40,960 --> 00:19:44,679 Speaker 1: Oranges popularity train because at the time, carrots were mostly 330 00:19:44,720 --> 00:19:47,480 Speaker 1: fed to livestock. So they're like, this orange thing is popular. 331 00:19:48,040 --> 00:19:50,520 Speaker 1: We could get this color and maybe people will people 332 00:19:50,520 --> 00:19:55,679 Speaker 1: will associate it with it in order to eat it more. Um. 333 00:19:55,720 --> 00:19:59,199 Speaker 1: In the nineteenth century, French horticulturist Louis de Villemourin and 334 00:19:59,280 --> 00:20:02,320 Speaker 1: his knowledge of aunt reading brought us more varieties of carrots, 335 00:20:02,400 --> 00:20:05,040 Speaker 1: like than nons. Um, that one's the most popular I 336 00:20:05,040 --> 00:20:12,520 Speaker 1: think worldwide, especially in the West. M. Jefferson Jefferson, he 337 00:20:12,640 --> 00:20:14,600 Speaker 1: grew carrots, of course he did. Of course he did, 338 00:20:15,160 --> 00:20:21,119 Speaker 1: and a very brief but important aside for carrot cake. Yes, cake, 339 00:20:21,400 --> 00:20:24,200 Speaker 1: Oh is this gonna be a whole episode someday? I 340 00:20:24,240 --> 00:20:30,040 Speaker 1: would love to, because I believe there's a quote out 341 00:20:30,040 --> 00:20:33,679 Speaker 1: there from somebody's written a book about cakes, and she 342 00:20:33,880 --> 00:20:41,320 Speaker 1: called it the most elusive historical like historically the carrot cake. Goodness, 343 00:20:41,600 --> 00:20:45,359 Speaker 1: it's gonna be like hard research it, Okay, I know 344 00:20:45,720 --> 00:20:51,119 Speaker 1: the one that finally breaks this carrot cake? Um. Okay. 345 00:20:51,480 --> 00:20:56,040 Speaker 1: So from what I could glean, carrot puttings go back 346 00:20:56,200 --> 00:20:59,480 Speaker 1: to medieval Europe, and it could have just the carrot 347 00:20:59,520 --> 00:21:03,080 Speaker 1: cake could have just naturally evolved from there. Sure, or 348 00:21:03,280 --> 00:21:06,720 Speaker 1: and I like this version better. Carrot cake resulted shortly 349 00:21:06,760 --> 00:21:11,320 Speaker 1: after World War One from a misread recipe for currant cake. 350 00:21:10,800 --> 00:21:14,720 Speaker 1: Oh great, I love it. Oh the cook must have 351 00:21:14,720 --> 00:21:18,120 Speaker 1: been very confused. I love it so much. I hope 352 00:21:18,160 --> 00:21:24,360 Speaker 1: that's true. Carrots okay, and everybody just misinterpreted this recipe. 353 00:21:24,720 --> 00:21:29,600 Speaker 1: I don't know. Billsbury held a nationwide recipe contest for 354 00:21:29,800 --> 00:21:32,480 Speaker 1: their carrot cake recipe, and it appeared in that years 355 00:21:32,600 --> 00:21:37,080 Speaker 1: the twentieth century Bride's Cookbook. And I did find a 356 00:21:37,160 --> 00:21:41,240 Speaker 1: whole article from Slate chasing the history of the sugared 357 00:21:41,320 --> 00:21:45,679 Speaker 1: carrots on top of carrot They were comparing how like, 358 00:21:45,720 --> 00:21:48,920 Speaker 1: if you get a strawberry cake, you'll have like strawberries, 359 00:21:49,040 --> 00:21:52,080 Speaker 1: maybe like glazed strawberries even sure, but you won't have 360 00:21:52,200 --> 00:21:55,400 Speaker 1: like a carrot on top of a carrot cake. You'll 361 00:21:55,440 --> 00:21:59,560 Speaker 1: have a sugar candy thing right right, like like marzipan 362 00:21:59,720 --> 00:22:02,600 Speaker 1: or they're frosting something like that in the shape of 363 00:22:02,640 --> 00:22:04,679 Speaker 1: a carrot. So there's a whole article out there if 364 00:22:04,680 --> 00:22:06,600 Speaker 1: you want to know the history of that. It's I 365 00:22:06,600 --> 00:22:10,000 Speaker 1: mean pretty much. It's in the nineteen fifties when women 366 00:22:10,040 --> 00:22:12,639 Speaker 1: were trying to show off their skillet decorating and it 367 00:22:12,800 --> 00:22:16,080 Speaker 1: just stuck. But I enjoyed it. That is that is great. 368 00:22:16,520 --> 00:22:19,600 Speaker 1: M h. I'm trying to think like, yeah, like that's 369 00:22:19,640 --> 00:22:22,199 Speaker 1: really one of the only things that we put the 370 00:22:22,200 --> 00:22:27,400 Speaker 1: shape of one of the ingredients, like we don't. I mean, 371 00:22:27,600 --> 00:22:29,359 Speaker 1: rarely do you get like a pumpkin pie and you 372 00:22:29,400 --> 00:22:31,760 Speaker 1: put like a little dope pump like like pie crust 373 00:22:31,800 --> 00:22:33,560 Speaker 1: pumpkin on top of it. Like you're like, no, that's 374 00:22:33,560 --> 00:22:37,720 Speaker 1: a pumpkin pie. It's clear, right. The carrot cake. Yeah, 375 00:22:37,760 --> 00:22:40,040 Speaker 1: they gotta have the carrots on there. I want to, 376 00:22:40,080 --> 00:22:41,919 Speaker 1: I want to, I want to extrapolate this out to 377 00:22:42,000 --> 00:22:46,240 Speaker 1: other types of desserts, and we should and we will. 378 00:22:47,600 --> 00:22:51,720 Speaker 1: But on the opposite side of carrots, by the early 379 00:22:51,720 --> 00:22:55,640 Speaker 1: twentieth century, carrots were viewed as a health food. During 380 00:22:55,640 --> 00:22:58,280 Speaker 1: World War One, they were marketed as something you could 381 00:22:58,280 --> 00:23:02,240 Speaker 1: eat that wasn't rationed, and the UK's Ministry of Food 382 00:23:02,480 --> 00:23:04,879 Speaker 1: pushed carrots as a health food as well as a 383 00:23:04,880 --> 00:23:09,960 Speaker 1: substitute poor scarcer foods, with a cartoon carrot named Doctor 384 00:23:10,000 --> 00:23:16,040 Speaker 1: Carrot U varied to the point yeah, yeah, just you know, 385 00:23:16,280 --> 00:23:20,600 Speaker 1: it's clear, yes, um, And they had all kinds of 386 00:23:20,600 --> 00:23:23,720 Speaker 1: recipes that you'd find in like supermarkets. It kind of 387 00:23:23,760 --> 00:23:27,639 Speaker 1: reminded me of the Trader Joe's flyers you get now. 388 00:23:27,880 --> 00:23:31,480 Speaker 1: Absolutely I think that those are in fact patterned after 389 00:23:31,560 --> 00:23:34,080 Speaker 1: that very thing. Yes, I believe so. Um. And there 390 00:23:34,080 --> 00:23:37,200 Speaker 1: are recipes for carrot jams, carrot puddings, carrot fudge, toffee 391 00:23:37,200 --> 00:23:41,679 Speaker 1: carrots and the image of toffee carrots hot smudge, dreams, 392 00:23:41,720 --> 00:23:45,480 Speaker 1: my dreams. So looking up at your own risk good 393 00:23:45,880 --> 00:23:52,960 Speaker 1: a carrot drink called carrol Aid. Also also, Doctor Carrot 394 00:23:52,960 --> 00:23:57,040 Speaker 1: had glasses. Okay, well he was doctor. He clearly had 395 00:23:57,040 --> 00:24:00,600 Speaker 1: poor eyesight. That's how we tell he wasn't eating enough carrots. 396 00:24:00,960 --> 00:24:05,520 Speaker 1: Their own propaganda, and as was he a carrot himself. 397 00:24:05,520 --> 00:24:08,680 Speaker 1: He was a carrot. He's all walking carrot who eats 398 00:24:08,720 --> 00:24:12,960 Speaker 1: carrots and tells you to eat more carrots. This, this 399 00:24:13,040 --> 00:24:15,439 Speaker 1: messaging is very confusing, it is. And you know who 400 00:24:15,520 --> 00:24:20,520 Speaker 1: got in on it, Disney, Because Doctor Carrett was not 401 00:24:20,560 --> 00:24:23,560 Speaker 1: the only cartoon carrot in town. M one of the 402 00:24:23,560 --> 00:24:26,359 Speaker 1: cartoons that Disney designed a whole carrot family on the 403 00:24:26,359 --> 00:24:30,879 Speaker 1: request of the Ukan industry of food. There was Krroty, George, 404 00:24:31,359 --> 00:24:34,760 Speaker 1: Doctor Carrot, and Clara Carrott. And yes, this means there 405 00:24:34,880 --> 00:24:37,560 Speaker 1: was two different doctor Carrots, both of them in the 406 00:24:37,560 --> 00:24:41,600 Speaker 1: medical field. Yes, and that that cannot be. We cannot 407 00:24:41,680 --> 00:24:45,560 Speaker 1: let this stand. So this STARTNR Carrot. The Disney one 408 00:24:45,600 --> 00:24:51,560 Speaker 1: was rebranded as Pop Carrots Okay and Carrotty. George's sayings were, 409 00:24:52,240 --> 00:24:55,120 Speaker 1: I'll tell you what to do with me. I think 410 00:24:55,119 --> 00:25:00,080 Speaker 1: it was probably met in a much more happy I imagine, know. 411 00:25:00,520 --> 00:25:05,120 Speaker 1: I like the threatening tone better. Also, other shoes are carrots. 412 00:25:06,119 --> 00:25:09,679 Speaker 1: I could go on and on about this carrots. Okay. 413 00:25:09,119 --> 00:25:14,000 Speaker 1: I'm gonna look up video of this later. It's excellent. Heck, 414 00:25:14,359 --> 00:25:17,399 Speaker 1: it is excellent. And now we arrive at the source 415 00:25:17,640 --> 00:25:20,280 Speaker 1: of my beef with carrots, that eating a large enough 416 00:25:20,320 --> 00:25:23,000 Speaker 1: amount of them will help you see in the dark 417 00:25:23,520 --> 00:25:26,280 Speaker 1: or improve your night vision more accurately. But I remember thinking, 418 00:25:26,640 --> 00:25:31,240 Speaker 1: oh yeah. This apparently originated during World War Two, when 419 00:25:31,240 --> 00:25:34,119 Speaker 1: British gunners shot down German planes at night, and to 420 00:25:34,160 --> 00:25:36,280 Speaker 1: cover up the fact that the British were using radar 421 00:25:36,320 --> 00:25:39,880 Speaker 1: technologies to accomplish this, radar technologies they want to keep 422 00:25:40,119 --> 00:25:42,399 Speaker 1: under wraps that they had. It was new and fancy 423 00:25:42,440 --> 00:25:48,080 Speaker 1: and shiny, exactly official spread a story that it was carrots. 424 00:25:49,359 --> 00:25:51,880 Speaker 1: The high level of carrots the pilots eight is why 425 00:25:51,920 --> 00:25:54,359 Speaker 1: they were able to see it shoot down German. It 426 00:25:54,440 --> 00:25:57,800 Speaker 1: was a whole propaganda thing. Yeah, yep, and it worked 427 00:25:57,880 --> 00:26:01,600 Speaker 1: because my parents they oldest to me, and I believed them. 428 00:26:02,080 --> 00:26:07,200 Speaker 1: I believed him. Um, carrots keep you healthy and help 429 00:26:07,240 --> 00:26:09,360 Speaker 1: you see in the blackout the slogan win. And as 430 00:26:09,440 --> 00:26:12,640 Speaker 1: I was writing this, I realized that a listener sent 431 00:26:12,720 --> 00:26:15,000 Speaker 1: as a postcard that said that very thing, and it's 432 00:26:15,000 --> 00:26:18,800 Speaker 1: on my desk. Absolutely yeah. Another claim declared that a 433 00:26:18,840 --> 00:26:21,960 Speaker 1: shortage of batteries would be no problem because as long 434 00:26:22,040 --> 00:26:25,560 Speaker 1: as folks ate their carrots, they would develop cats eyes. 435 00:26:27,640 --> 00:26:32,120 Speaker 1: Untrue but helpful. Another claim went a night site can 436 00:26:32,160 --> 00:26:36,200 Speaker 1: mean life or death. It's just a very serious business. Yes, 437 00:26:36,280 --> 00:26:41,119 Speaker 1: propaganda posters in World War Two were extremely serious about 438 00:26:41,119 --> 00:26:43,840 Speaker 1: everything they were doing. They were That is some of 439 00:26:43,840 --> 00:26:47,439 Speaker 1: my very favorite Google search rabbit holes to to go on. 440 00:26:47,680 --> 00:26:50,199 Speaker 1: I I'm a big fan. There are all kinds of 441 00:26:50,240 --> 00:26:52,600 Speaker 1: things that you just wouldn't expect, or I wouldn't expect. 442 00:26:52,600 --> 00:26:57,280 Speaker 1: I'm not gonna put that on anyone else but carrots. Anyway, 443 00:26:57,359 --> 00:27:00,600 Speaker 1: Now we come to another aside, the baby carrots. Huh. 444 00:27:00,640 --> 00:27:02,720 Speaker 1: And this was was this type of carrots that you 445 00:27:02,720 --> 00:27:04,800 Speaker 1: were that you were eating when you were eating so 446 00:27:04,800 --> 00:27:08,840 Speaker 1: many carrots. Okay, yes, I suspected I wanted to check. Yes, Um, 447 00:27:09,680 --> 00:27:12,320 Speaker 1: the ideava like bugs bunnying through like like hall carrots 448 00:27:12,359 --> 00:27:15,159 Speaker 1: is also funny. Occasionally I would do that because I 449 00:27:15,240 --> 00:27:19,480 Speaker 1: had it in my mind through no real nobody told 450 00:27:19,480 --> 00:27:21,760 Speaker 1: me this, but I thought those were better for you're 451 00:27:21,760 --> 00:27:24,600 Speaker 1: healthier as opposed to baby carrots. And there is some 452 00:27:24,680 --> 00:27:28,399 Speaker 1: health misinformation around baby carrots that we'll touch on briefly, 453 00:27:28,440 --> 00:27:30,199 Speaker 1: but that's not why. I just had some weird thing 454 00:27:30,240 --> 00:27:33,600 Speaker 1: in my head. Things because they had like a skin sure, yeah, yeah, yeah, 455 00:27:33,640 --> 00:27:35,840 Speaker 1: they might have a different vitamin mineral or something in 456 00:27:35,840 --> 00:27:40,720 Speaker 1: the skin maybe And anyway, anyway in or maybe eighty 457 00:27:40,800 --> 00:27:43,200 Speaker 1: nine number of the year differs depending on what you're 458 00:27:43,200 --> 00:27:45,400 Speaker 1: looking at. A company by the name of Bunny Love 459 00:27:46,040 --> 00:27:49,760 Speaker 1: started selling the first baby carrots, and the story goes 460 00:27:49,920 --> 00:27:52,480 Speaker 1: that this idea is courtesy of a farmer named Mike 461 00:27:52,640 --> 00:27:55,080 Speaker 1: you're a sec who thought that he could reduce the 462 00:27:55,200 --> 00:27:59,479 Speaker 1: chance of customers passing over unattractive carrots by shaving them 463 00:27:59,480 --> 00:28:04,040 Speaker 1: down into uniform, bullet like shapes. And yes, they did 464 00:28:04,080 --> 00:28:07,000 Speaker 1: get into some trouble with Warner Brothers over their logo 465 00:28:07,040 --> 00:28:10,280 Speaker 1: of Funny eating a carrot, because there's only one bunny 466 00:28:10,280 --> 00:28:12,480 Speaker 1: who's allowed to eat carrots in this town. Exactly, there's 467 00:28:12,560 --> 00:28:16,000 Speaker 1: one doctor carrot and one bunny that can eat carrots. 468 00:28:16,040 --> 00:28:19,400 Speaker 1: Actually there's two. Well yeah, I guess, I guess Babs 469 00:28:19,400 --> 00:28:22,520 Speaker 1: and Buster also eat carrots. But they're they're also a 470 00:28:22,560 --> 00:28:24,680 Speaker 1: property of Warner Brothers. So it all kind of works out, 471 00:28:24,800 --> 00:28:32,200 Speaker 1: is that from the poll explained to me, he comes 472 00:28:32,280 --> 00:28:38,800 Speaker 1: from Pooh Corner, very good, non sec ordered for any conversation. 473 00:28:39,280 --> 00:28:45,400 Speaker 1: Tell me, I know it's the rabbit, and oh he's 474 00:28:45,440 --> 00:28:53,560 Speaker 1: called rabbit. That's easily gotten to the bottom up. Thank 475 00:28:53,600 --> 00:28:57,840 Speaker 1: you to reproducer Andrew for solving that for me very quickly. Anyway, 476 00:28:57,880 --> 00:29:00,760 Speaker 1: that he eats a lot of rabbits, he's lot of rabbits, 477 00:29:00,760 --> 00:29:06,480 Speaker 1: so god he might. He's he's got a weird personality. 478 00:29:06,720 --> 00:29:11,680 Speaker 1: He's shifty. I always said that rabbit shifty. Well this 479 00:29:11,760 --> 00:29:19,520 Speaker 1: has gone off the rails. Okay, back to Warner Brothers 480 00:29:19,600 --> 00:29:24,560 Speaker 1: and that rabbit. Um so, Mike, you're a sec of bunny. 481 00:29:24,640 --> 00:29:28,200 Speaker 1: Love asked his wife to design fifty different rabbits for 482 00:29:28,560 --> 00:29:31,720 Speaker 1: w B to approve, thinking we'll surely one of them 483 00:29:31,800 --> 00:29:34,560 Speaker 1: will be okay, yes, and they did, they did approve 484 00:29:34,720 --> 00:29:39,720 Speaker 1: one of them. So um. And just a quick note, 485 00:29:39,840 --> 00:29:42,840 Speaker 1: baby carrots are not like baby carrots. Oh yeah, yeah, 486 00:29:42,840 --> 00:29:45,800 Speaker 1: they're they're not carrots that are just young. No, you're 487 00:29:45,880 --> 00:29:49,400 Speaker 1: shaved down, Yes, they're they're they're processed. Yes, yes, um. 488 00:29:49,400 --> 00:29:52,120 Speaker 1: And I once had to make a fire drill green 489 00:29:52,160 --> 00:29:56,440 Speaker 1: screen video, which green screen is already bad, but a 490 00:29:56,480 --> 00:29:58,680 Speaker 1: fire drill green screen, which means do it today right now, 491 00:29:58,760 --> 00:30:01,960 Speaker 1: yea litter early everything else you're doing, and make this happen. Yes, 492 00:30:02,040 --> 00:30:04,960 Speaker 1: And I was not familiar with green screen at the time. 493 00:30:04,960 --> 00:30:08,040 Speaker 1: It's a very another emotional memory in my carrots database. 494 00:30:08,400 --> 00:30:13,840 Speaker 1: But past coworker Caroline urban Um was doing it about 495 00:30:13,880 --> 00:30:17,200 Speaker 1: like five top five health myths or something, and one 496 00:30:17,240 --> 00:30:21,160 Speaker 1: of them was that baby carrots cost cancer because the chlorine. 497 00:30:21,160 --> 00:30:23,880 Speaker 1: They're soaked in chlorine. Okay, Um, it is a myth, 498 00:30:24,000 --> 00:30:27,800 Speaker 1: as the title suggests, Well there we go. Yes, that's great. Yeah, yeah, yeah, 499 00:30:28,040 --> 00:30:30,520 Speaker 1: I mean there's a lot of science out there if 500 00:30:30,560 --> 00:30:32,120 Speaker 1: you want to read more about it, because it did 501 00:30:32,160 --> 00:30:36,320 Speaker 1: cause kind of a big stir when that came out. 502 00:30:36,440 --> 00:30:39,320 Speaker 1: But um, yeah, yeah, A friend a friend has tried 503 00:30:39,360 --> 00:30:41,680 Speaker 1: to convince me that baby carrots are made the way 504 00:30:41,720 --> 00:30:44,080 Speaker 1: particle board is out of like shavings of carrots that 505 00:30:44,120 --> 00:30:47,800 Speaker 1: are pressed together. That's not how they're I've never heard that. 506 00:30:47,800 --> 00:30:50,000 Speaker 1: That's not how they're made. Yeah, no, no, I think 507 00:30:50,000 --> 00:30:52,400 Speaker 1: he's just wrong. I don't like that. I think you're 508 00:30:52,440 --> 00:30:54,520 Speaker 1: just wrong. I don't think it's like a pervasive myth. 509 00:30:54,640 --> 00:30:56,640 Speaker 1: I think that's just something that he had in his head. 510 00:30:57,120 --> 00:30:59,800 Speaker 1: And I was like, no, that's a no. So he genuinely, 511 00:30:59,840 --> 00:31:05,040 Speaker 1: but I'm you know, I've got some weird friends. Oh well, 512 00:31:05,280 --> 00:31:07,320 Speaker 1: whether whether or not, whether or not he believed it 513 00:31:07,400 --> 00:31:13,479 Speaker 1: is not for me, not for me to say understood, understood. Well, 514 00:31:13,520 --> 00:31:16,000 Speaker 1: that about brings us to the end of our history 515 00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:18,280 Speaker 1: of carrots. We do have a little bit of science 516 00:31:18,360 --> 00:31:20,800 Speaker 1: for you, but first we've got another quick break for 517 00:31:20,800 --> 00:31:32,760 Speaker 1: a word from our sponsor, and we're back. Thank you, yes, 518 00:31:32,800 --> 00:31:34,880 Speaker 1: thank you. And at the top of the science section 519 00:31:35,560 --> 00:31:37,320 Speaker 1: I proposed to basically nothing. I just want to give 520 00:31:37,360 --> 00:31:40,440 Speaker 1: a shout out to one Philip Simon, who is a 521 00:31:40,480 --> 00:31:44,000 Speaker 1: research geneticist whose name popped up again and again and 522 00:31:44,040 --> 00:31:46,640 Speaker 1: again in like everything that I read about carrot science. 523 00:31:47,400 --> 00:31:49,760 Speaker 1: Just he was just he's just like the father of 524 00:31:49,920 --> 00:31:53,240 Speaker 1: modern carrots science free And I just want to say, 525 00:31:53,560 --> 00:31:57,080 Speaker 1: you're doing a good job man. Yeah. Yeah, props to you. 526 00:31:57,280 --> 00:32:03,640 Speaker 1: Hope that you have a really cool business card title. Um, 527 00:32:04,240 --> 00:32:06,720 Speaker 1: a couple a couple of brief notes before we get 528 00:32:06,760 --> 00:32:11,720 Speaker 1: to our most important carrot science concept. Um, carrots, carrots 529 00:32:11,720 --> 00:32:16,040 Speaker 1: and peeling. Okay, yes, carrots only need to be peeled. Um, 530 00:32:16,200 --> 00:32:18,880 Speaker 1: it's not like it's bad for you. Um, they only 531 00:32:18,880 --> 00:32:20,440 Speaker 1: need to be peeled if like the skin is bitter 532 00:32:20,520 --> 00:32:24,120 Speaker 1: and you don't want that your food. Um. So yeah, 533 00:32:24,240 --> 00:32:25,880 Speaker 1: just like taste a piece before putting yourself to the 534 00:32:25,920 --> 00:32:28,520 Speaker 1: trouble of peeling carrots. I don't know if y'all hate 535 00:32:28,560 --> 00:32:31,000 Speaker 1: peeling things as much as I do. It's the worst. 536 00:32:31,040 --> 00:32:34,720 Speaker 1: I always skin myself. Yes there's pain and suffering. Yes, yes, 537 00:32:34,880 --> 00:32:37,760 Speaker 1: it's a risky endeavor. Carrots harvested in the fall and 538 00:32:37,760 --> 00:32:40,880 Speaker 1: winter are more likely to have a bitter skin built up. 539 00:32:41,200 --> 00:32:43,640 Speaker 1: But the season when you were buying the carrots doesn't 540 00:32:43,680 --> 00:32:47,840 Speaker 1: necessarily tell you whether it was fall or winter, verst summer, 541 00:32:47,920 --> 00:32:50,600 Speaker 1: spring in the place where they were grown, unless you 542 00:32:50,640 --> 00:32:55,840 Speaker 1: read the label. So yeah, you know, check that out. Yeah. Oh, 543 00:32:55,960 --> 00:33:00,000 Speaker 1: and because carrots sugars are are concentrated on the inside 544 00:33:00,440 --> 00:33:03,640 Speaker 1: of their cells, shredding carrots will indeed release more of 545 00:33:03,680 --> 00:33:06,600 Speaker 1: their sweetness for your for your palate to enjoy. So 546 00:33:06,600 --> 00:33:07,800 Speaker 1: if you really want to add like a like a 547 00:33:07,800 --> 00:33:09,800 Speaker 1: burst of sweetness to a salad or something, don't just 548 00:33:09,880 --> 00:33:12,280 Speaker 1: like dice a carrot or cut it into coins, like 549 00:33:12,280 --> 00:33:14,240 Speaker 1: like do a good shave on it? Yeah, or maybe 550 00:33:14,240 --> 00:33:19,120 Speaker 1: great at something like that. Yeah, Okay, this brings us 551 00:33:19,160 --> 00:33:22,120 Speaker 1: to a very important question. It does It's been looming 552 00:33:22,120 --> 00:33:25,880 Speaker 1: over this entire episode. It has, it's come up, in fact, 553 00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:32,040 Speaker 1: it has do rabbits really like carrots? What? Well? I 554 00:33:32,080 --> 00:33:35,160 Speaker 1: mean you know that the rabbits, I mean they'll they'll 555 00:33:35,200 --> 00:33:37,840 Speaker 1: pretty much eat what you what you give them. Yeah, 556 00:33:38,320 --> 00:33:43,200 Speaker 1: apparently from my brief search, rabbits will eat carrots, but 557 00:33:43,360 --> 00:33:47,680 Speaker 1: veterinarians caution about feeding them too many carrots because of 558 00:33:47,680 --> 00:33:50,000 Speaker 1: their levels of sugars and starches. Yeah, it's like a 559 00:33:50,120 --> 00:33:52,440 Speaker 1: like a little rabbit candy bar. Is how I've heard 560 00:33:52,440 --> 00:33:55,840 Speaker 1: it put seen it put again? This was not around 561 00:33:55,880 --> 00:33:59,760 Speaker 1: the water cooler. It could be though, Um, and this 562 00:34:00,000 --> 00:34:02,320 Speaker 1: at me to thinking, is it is it just a 563 00:34:02,360 --> 00:34:06,640 Speaker 1: looney tunes. Okay, I went on a really deep dive here. 564 00:34:06,880 --> 00:34:11,280 Speaker 1: Um And according to internet lore, um bugs bunnies like 565 00:34:11,280 --> 00:34:15,160 Speaker 1: like nonchalance and carrot habit where at least partially a 566 00:34:15,200 --> 00:34:19,640 Speaker 1: nod to this really popular Clark Gable film from called 567 00:34:19,719 --> 00:34:22,920 Speaker 1: It Happened One Night. In it, there's a scene where 568 00:34:23,400 --> 00:34:26,960 Speaker 1: Gable is just eating carrots like nothing coming and and 569 00:34:27,000 --> 00:34:30,360 Speaker 1: he's performing this really spitfire dialogue with his mouth full 570 00:34:30,719 --> 00:34:33,040 Speaker 1: and his manner so relaxed. He's just like chilling out 571 00:34:33,040 --> 00:34:36,000 Speaker 1: against a fence eating these carrots, like like shooting off 572 00:34:36,040 --> 00:34:40,160 Speaker 1: these these real like spitfire lines and uh and and 573 00:34:40,040 --> 00:34:43,520 Speaker 1: and apparently it was a big cultural reference that humans 574 00:34:43,560 --> 00:34:47,600 Speaker 1: would have gotten from around the day. And supposedly creator 575 00:34:47,719 --> 00:34:50,920 Speaker 1: Frizz Freeling confirmed this in an unpublished memoir, but I 576 00:34:50,960 --> 00:34:55,920 Speaker 1: cannot find any solid confirmation of that in an unpublished memoir. 577 00:34:56,000 --> 00:34:58,919 Speaker 1: To me, sounds like internet speak for I just made 578 00:34:58,960 --> 00:35:03,360 Speaker 1: this up. But it's reported in many places and it 579 00:35:03,400 --> 00:35:05,640 Speaker 1: all goes back, I think, to an IMDb note that 580 00:35:05,800 --> 00:35:11,480 Speaker 1: is uncredited. So anyway, um Bugs may have also been 581 00:35:11,520 --> 00:35:15,359 Speaker 1: inspired by grautschow Marks and his trademark cigar, which is 582 00:35:15,400 --> 00:35:17,560 Speaker 1: the image that I've always kind of assumed it was. 583 00:35:17,600 --> 00:35:20,440 Speaker 1: But this Clark Gable thing is really interesting. It's on YouTube, 584 00:35:20,600 --> 00:35:25,960 Speaker 1: you can watch it. It's wacky. Um and uh, from 585 00:35:26,000 --> 00:35:29,760 Speaker 1: everything I can tell, yes, this is just a Looney 586 00:35:29,800 --> 00:35:34,200 Speaker 1: Tunes thing. Yeah, Like it's just bugs Bunny. Um Like, 587 00:35:34,239 --> 00:35:36,320 Speaker 1: I don't think that the whole thing where like you 588 00:35:36,440 --> 00:35:39,319 Speaker 1: leave you leave something for the easter bunny, like when 589 00:35:39,360 --> 00:35:41,759 Speaker 1: you like you leave carrots for the easter bunny so 590 00:35:41,760 --> 00:35:43,520 Speaker 1: that he gives you like a good Easter basket. I 591 00:35:43,520 --> 00:35:48,120 Speaker 1: think it didn't happen until after Bugs Bunny propagated. Wow. Yeah, 592 00:35:48,400 --> 00:35:51,120 Speaker 1: and then I mean if you buy a bunny like 593 00:35:51,360 --> 00:35:54,400 Speaker 1: stuffed animal bunny, they usually have a carrot. They're frequently 594 00:35:54,480 --> 00:35:59,239 Speaker 1: carrot associated. Yes, it's a whole thing. If anyone, I 595 00:35:59,280 --> 00:36:03,000 Speaker 1: couldn't find anything to refute this concept. So I kind 596 00:36:03,040 --> 00:36:06,120 Speaker 1: of just like Looney Tunes was so popular and so 597 00:36:06,160 --> 00:36:08,200 Speaker 1: big that I just assumed like, well, this has to 598 00:36:08,200 --> 00:36:12,040 Speaker 1: be it. That's it, that's what it is. Yeah, But 599 00:36:12,560 --> 00:36:14,719 Speaker 1: if there's if there's another answer out there, y'all right 600 00:36:14,760 --> 00:36:19,799 Speaker 1: in let me know, yes, please, yes, just think if 601 00:36:19,800 --> 00:36:21,800 Speaker 1: Gradual Marks hadn't had that cigar that he was always 602 00:36:21,840 --> 00:36:25,160 Speaker 1: doing stuff with, where would we be bunnies wouldn't have 603 00:36:25,200 --> 00:36:31,160 Speaker 1: carrots and a guess I can't imagine a world like that. 604 00:36:33,719 --> 00:36:36,680 Speaker 1: Well that's about That's about what I have for carrots. Science. 605 00:36:37,440 --> 00:36:39,279 Speaker 1: I like that the Looney Tunes bit was in the 606 00:36:39,280 --> 00:36:47,480 Speaker 1: science the science of creating a cultural phenomenon. Yeah, bugs 607 00:36:47,520 --> 00:36:51,560 Speaker 1: Bunny one oh one. Um, well that about brings us 608 00:36:51,760 --> 00:36:55,279 Speaker 1: to this episode, to the end of this episode. This 609 00:36:55,320 --> 00:36:58,759 Speaker 1: episode just just to this episode period. That's what it does. Yes, 610 00:36:59,040 --> 00:37:06,680 Speaker 1: I my random sentences today, but it brings us to listen. 611 00:37:10,480 --> 00:37:13,640 Speaker 1: I don't know how to do a bugs Bunny. I 612 00:37:13,760 --> 00:37:16,600 Speaker 1: was like, what does he sound like? It's not that 613 00:37:16,760 --> 00:37:20,240 Speaker 1: not that that was some kind of approximation of something 614 00:37:20,600 --> 00:37:23,120 Speaker 1: we we did. We did something and we did like 615 00:37:23,160 --> 00:37:28,520 Speaker 1: a cigar mo. Yeah, it was a cigar motion for sure. Anyway, 616 00:37:28,960 --> 00:37:33,279 Speaker 1: Ron wrote, Um, so I have two short ones to 617 00:37:33,280 --> 00:37:35,239 Speaker 1: start off with. Ron wrote, I was listening to the 618 00:37:35,280 --> 00:37:38,680 Speaker 1: Chocolate Chip Cookie episode and enjoying it tremendously while using 619 00:37:38,760 --> 00:37:42,040 Speaker 1: ways to try to avoid traffic jams. The ways voice 620 00:37:42,080 --> 00:37:44,960 Speaker 1: I was using was Cookie Motster. It was a bit 621 00:37:45,000 --> 00:37:47,240 Speaker 1: surreal to be listening to the podcast while having Cookie 622 00:37:47,239 --> 00:37:49,319 Speaker 1: Monster puff up every now and then telling me things 623 00:37:49,360 --> 00:37:52,200 Speaker 1: like there is an accident up ahead, see is we're careful? 624 00:37:52,480 --> 00:37:56,640 Speaker 1: And also cookie and pulice up ahead? Do you see them? 625 00:37:56,680 --> 00:37:59,600 Speaker 1: Do they want to cookie? I did not know you 626 00:37:59,600 --> 00:38:08,640 Speaker 1: could get cookie monster? That is oh man. Laura wrote, 627 00:38:08,920 --> 00:38:11,400 Speaker 1: I am listening to the complimentary bar Snacks episode and 628 00:38:11,440 --> 00:38:13,520 Speaker 1: wanted to share a unique take on what I've seen. 629 00:38:13,840 --> 00:38:15,759 Speaker 1: I grew up in Rochester, New York, and a bar 630 00:38:15,840 --> 00:38:19,480 Speaker 1: called Lux offers a tray of peanut butter sandwiches on 631 00:38:19,520 --> 00:38:22,759 Speaker 1: Tuesday nights. So tasty. It a little random, want to 632 00:38:22,760 --> 00:38:24,759 Speaker 1: share and thanks for all episodes. And that's it for me. 633 00:38:25,000 --> 00:38:28,800 Speaker 1: I'm going to Rochester, New York. Yeah, oh that sounds 634 00:38:28,800 --> 00:38:31,239 Speaker 1: like that's such an amazing bar snack. I feel like 635 00:38:31,280 --> 00:38:33,640 Speaker 1: this is the second one we read from Rochester, New York. 636 00:38:34,320 --> 00:38:36,719 Speaker 1: I think the bacon might have been there. Oh yeah, 637 00:38:36,760 --> 00:38:40,560 Speaker 1: maybe they got a whole thing going. Yeah, Rochester, We're 638 00:38:40,600 --> 00:38:44,239 Speaker 1: looking at you. We see you see I you like 639 00:38:44,280 --> 00:38:47,080 Speaker 1: what you're doing peanut butter and bacon. We like the 640 00:38:47,120 --> 00:38:50,719 Speaker 1: cut of your jib. We do um Tory wrote, I 641 00:38:50,760 --> 00:38:53,359 Speaker 1: could not allow a watermelon episode to pass and not 642 00:38:53,480 --> 00:38:57,000 Speaker 1: email YouTube. My grandfather was a watermelon farmer in Florida. 643 00:38:57,160 --> 00:38:58,880 Speaker 1: I've attached a baby photo of my cousin and I 644 00:38:58,960 --> 00:39:01,200 Speaker 1: with Grandpa and some of his melons. I'm the pudgy 645 00:39:01,239 --> 00:39:04,239 Speaker 1: baby sitting on the melon. Indeed she was. I grew 646 00:39:04,320 --> 00:39:06,600 Speaker 1: up eating watermelon all the time and loved my grandmother's 647 00:39:06,640 --> 00:39:10,719 Speaker 1: pickled rinds as well. I love watermelon so much. Unfortunately, 648 00:39:10,760 --> 00:39:13,440 Speaker 1: I have somehow managed to marry a man who doesn't 649 00:39:13,800 --> 00:39:17,120 Speaker 1: like watermelon. Note I was not aware of this fact 650 00:39:17,160 --> 00:39:20,560 Speaker 1: before we got serious, or I may have reconsidered. He 651 00:39:20,680 --> 00:39:22,479 Speaker 1: refuses to eat it, so when I buy a melon, 652 00:39:22,560 --> 00:39:25,000 Speaker 1: I have to eat the whole thing myself before it spoils, 653 00:39:25,000 --> 00:39:27,000 Speaker 1: which is quite the feat. I end up putting it 654 00:39:27,080 --> 00:39:29,960 Speaker 1: in everything, my smoothies, my salads. I try to give 655 00:39:30,000 --> 00:39:32,240 Speaker 1: some to neighbors and co workers. It becomes a struggle, 656 00:39:32,360 --> 00:39:36,120 Speaker 1: so I only buy it on occasion. Unfortunately, one thing 657 00:39:36,160 --> 00:39:38,520 Speaker 1: I didn't hear on your podcast is the absolute best 658 00:39:38,520 --> 00:39:41,400 Speaker 1: way to eat watermelon. According to my grandpa, you have 659 00:39:41,800 --> 00:39:44,320 Speaker 1: to put a few dashes of salt on any watermelon 660 00:39:44,360 --> 00:39:46,680 Speaker 1: to make it the most delicious. It just seems to 661 00:39:46,680 --> 00:39:49,879 Speaker 1: make it taste that much sweeter. One last thing I'd 662 00:39:49,880 --> 00:39:51,680 Speaker 1: like to tell you about is an issue I sometimes 663 00:39:51,760 --> 00:39:54,920 Speaker 1: have when choosing watermelon. I was always taught to choose 664 00:39:54,920 --> 00:39:58,279 Speaker 1: the melon with the largest, deepest yellow ripening spot, and 665 00:39:58,400 --> 00:40:01,680 Speaker 1: it should sound hollow when you bit. I've had two 666 00:40:01,680 --> 00:40:04,879 Speaker 1: separate incidents at a grocery store where some man has 667 00:40:04,880 --> 00:40:07,520 Speaker 1: tried to man explain to me how to choose a melon. 668 00:40:08,040 --> 00:40:11,799 Speaker 1: Big mistake. In one case, he was completely wrong, and 669 00:40:11,840 --> 00:40:13,920 Speaker 1: in the second case he said that all the thumping 670 00:40:14,000 --> 00:40:16,319 Speaker 1: I was doing on the melons was quote pointless and 671 00:40:16,360 --> 00:40:19,839 Speaker 1: didn't actually help choose a melon. In both cases, I'm 672 00:40:19,920 --> 00:40:21,759 Speaker 1: very quick to point out that my grandfather was a 673 00:40:21,760 --> 00:40:24,439 Speaker 1: watermelon farmer, so I've been around melons my whole life, 674 00:40:24,600 --> 00:40:27,280 Speaker 1: and I certainly know how to choose a dang melon. 675 00:40:27,800 --> 00:40:31,040 Speaker 1: In both cases, that clearly was not the response they expected. 676 00:40:31,400 --> 00:40:34,759 Speaker 1: I enjoy walking away, leaving them dumbfounded with my perfectly 677 00:40:35,120 --> 00:40:41,200 Speaker 1: chosen melon. That's beautiful. Power to your girl. How dare 678 00:40:41,200 --> 00:40:46,839 Speaker 1: you come up and tell me to choose the nerve 679 00:40:46,880 --> 00:40:51,440 Speaker 1: of some people? Right right? Man? I will keep that 680 00:40:51,480 --> 00:40:54,200 Speaker 1: in mind next time I buy a watermelon. Yeah, she'll 681 00:40:54,239 --> 00:41:02,359 Speaker 1: probably be pretty soon been off. Sorry, Lauren, it's fine, 682 00:41:02,600 --> 00:41:05,200 Speaker 1: it's fine. I'm glad that other people get to enjoy them. 683 00:41:05,239 --> 00:41:07,880 Speaker 1: They are delightful, they are there, and I love the 684 00:41:07,920 --> 00:41:09,120 Speaker 1: salt thing. I used to do that when I was 685 00:41:09,120 --> 00:41:11,359 Speaker 1: a kid too. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, my my, 686 00:41:11,360 --> 00:41:15,160 Speaker 1: my grandpa would a salt watermelons and tomatoes. Yes, or 687 00:41:15,200 --> 00:41:19,440 Speaker 1: actually he would sugar tomatoes and salt watermelon. Oh. Interesting 688 00:41:21,840 --> 00:41:25,080 Speaker 1: experiments for later, but right now. Thanks to all three 689 00:41:25,200 --> 00:41:27,080 Speaker 1: of them for writing in and if you would like 690 00:41:27,120 --> 00:41:29,280 Speaker 1: to write to us you can. Our email is Hello 691 00:41:29,320 --> 00:41:31,560 Speaker 1: at savorpod dot com. You can also find us on 692 00:41:31,600 --> 00:41:35,759 Speaker 1: social media. We are on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter at 693 00:41:36,000 --> 00:41:38,560 Speaker 1: savor pod. We do hope to hear from you. Savor 694 00:41:38,600 --> 00:41:40,600 Speaker 1: is a production of I Heart Radio and Stuff Media. 695 00:41:40,640 --> 00:41:42,759 Speaker 1: For more podcasts from My Heart Radio, you can visit 696 00:41:42,760 --> 00:41:45,560 Speaker 1: the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you 697 00:41:45,600 --> 00:41:48,160 Speaker 1: listen to your favorite shows. Thanks as always to our 698 00:41:48,200 --> 00:41:51,400 Speaker 1: superproducers Dylan Fagan and Andrew Howard. Thanks to you for listening, 699 00:41:51,480 --> 00:41:53,080 Speaker 1: and we hope that lots more good things are coming 700 00:41:53,120 --> 00:41:53,480 Speaker 1: your way