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      Yeah, if your reaction to “website wants permission to push notifications to your device” isn’t some mix between mirth and revulsion, I don’t fundamentally understand you.

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    And that even though they could’ve bait-and-switched with a whole range of colors:

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        Ah, interesting. I guess, you mean those at around 10 o’clock? I’ve had the more sort of violet ones at 2 o’clock before and they looked like this:

        Violet carrots which look somewhat like beetroot inside

        They colored my whole food blue, as if I had spilled some ink into there. 🙃

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          I could be misremembering, I haven’t had a garden in a year, I just remember feeling scammed when 1 of the colors was only on the outside.

          Really nice carrot btw, girthy 🤤

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            Oh, I didn’t mean to put your comment into question. I did find pictures on the internet like these, so it seems to be a thing:

            Purple carrots have been around for longer than the orange variety, though, so it’d be a bit weird to create a variety which is only purple on the outside just for scam purposes. Like, you can likely get the seeds for actually purple carrots much more easily. 🙃

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      There are very few newsworthy items I’d be happy to receive a notification for… and I expect I’d find out about those pretty quick from other people anyway

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    What really hit me that all this superfood shit was nonsense was when I watched a real nutritionist answer a question about “the best superfood” and they said “potatoes.”

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      It’s true, potatoes are one of the few singular plants that can provide almost all of a person’s nutritional needs with barely any other supplement.

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        More protein per acre than soy.

        A factoid brought to you by the National Potato Council, who told me this once and I’ve never bothered to fact check it.

        Edit: It’s a lie! What other lies have lobbing groups told me???

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          I am going to consider this a success story, given that you were transparent about the provenance of this factoid, and you corrected yourself. Yay for learning!

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          iirc its more calories/acre than… well lliterally anything else. Not sure about any specific nutrient though.

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        Cheap, can be made into a variety of dishes, easy to prepare, really a winner allround.

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      Yes, but no. Yes it’s a “super food” in the sense that they are easy to grow and are nutritious and contain almost everything the body needs, but you’d have to eat like twenty kilos a day to survive on them solely.

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      Now I’m starting to think that maybe Ray Cronise’s “potato diet” aka “Nutritarian diet” might not be so insane after all.

      It certainly seemed to work for Penn Jillette and Kevin Smith. It’s extreme, but might work for certain people. I don’t know if I would have the discipline personally.

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      Rather broccoli. Mulberry and flaxseed too. Who knew, our pre-agriculture ancestors ate the healtiest.

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    I thought it was about Trump, but at “nutrients” I was like: Wait a minute …

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    The sad thing is if Americans saw a supermarket shelf of only carrots or Cheetos, its clone in color and size only, they would stuff their carts with bags of Cheetos instead of a rabbit’s favorite snack. I love carrots but processed foods are America’s comfort cooking

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      I recently got my partner on board with replacing sugary snacks with carrots and it’s great. Plan on making my own chutney soon from apples I foraged for recently, should be nice with some carrot sticks. Supermarket chutney is made with more sugar than fruit, I know it needs some to preserve it along with vinegar but they use way more than necessary. Any recipe I find the main ingredients are fruit/veg, any I find in the shop then the largest ingredient is sugar.