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The carrot (Daucus carota subsp. sativus, Etymology: Midle French carotte, from Late Latin carōta, from Greek karōton, originally from the Indoeuropean root ker- (horn), due to its horny shape) is a root vegetable, usually orange or white, or red-white blend in colour, with a crisp texture when fresh. The edible part of a carrot is a taproot. It is a domesticated form of the wild carrot Daucus carota, native to Europe and southwestern Asia. It has been bred for its greatly enlarged and more palatable, less woody-textured edible taproot, but is still the same species.

Trivia about carrots

  • Raisins & nuts are traditional ingredients in the salad made from these grated orange veggies
  • In 1995 Mrs. Gooch's Market in Glendale, Calif. baked a 710-lb cake made from 825 of these orange veggies
  • Queen Anne's Lace is a wild variety of this orange vegetable, but its woody roots aren't good to eat
  • In the 1980s California farmer Mike Yurosek came up with the baby one of these veggies, a popular snack
  • This root can be eaten raw w/dip or baked in a cake that usually comes w/cream cheese icing
  • Ironically, Mel Blanc, who voiced Bugs Bunny, was allergic to these & would spit them out after recording a take
  • To hide the success of radar in WWII, the British govt. said this root vegetable helped increase pilots' vision
  • Use a bunch of these orange taproots, rich in provitamin A
  • "Large, naked, raw" these "are acceptable as food only to those who live in hutches eagerly awaiting Easter"
  • In Yiddish tsorres (trouble) should not be confused with tsimmes, a stew containing mern, these veggies

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