Starkist
06-18-2003, 02:57 PM
The Longest Carrot recorded in 1996 was 5.14 metres (16feet 10 ½ inches)
The Heaviest Carrot recorded in the World 18.985 lb 1998(single root mass)
Carrots produce more distilled spirit than potatoes.
If your first name is Carrot it has made you happiest when you are expressing in some creative, artistic way, and not conforming to strict routine.
The Anglo-Saxons included carrots as an ingredient in a medicinal drink against the devil and insanity.
In the Indian state of Rajastan women are obliged to eat carrot seeds. It is believed the carrot seeds have contraceptive qualities.
In magic, carrot seeds are given to help women wishing to have a baby to conceive.
In 1990 Crayola added neon carrot colour to its range of crayons
Wild rabbits do not eat carrots - you have been watching too much Bugs Bunny !
The name 'Carrot' is Celtic, and means 'red of colour'.
All brides should be given carrots. It supposedly brings luck in the kitchen.
The Greeks thought that carrots cured venereal disease.
The Arab cultures thought it a possible aphrodisiac.
According to French popular wisdom (!), eating carrots makes people nice and gives them blushing thighs.
William Wells, also known as Apekonit and Epiconyare, was captured by the Indians in 1784 when he was 14 years old. Apekonit is an Indian Word for several plants including wild carrot. Wells had red hair so his Indian name was "carrot top" or "red head.
Will Rogers (1879-1935) "An onion can make people cry but there has never been a vegetable to make people laugh"
Paul Cezanne (1839-1906) "The day is coming when a single carrot freshly observed will set off a revolution."
Old Yiddish saying "Only in dreams are carrots as big as bears."
Irish Proverb "Never bolt your door with a boiled carrot."
Shel Silverstein "What did the carrot say to the wheat? Lettuce rest, I'm feeling beet."
The World Carrot Museum (http://website.lineone.net/~stolarczyk/index.html)
The Heaviest Carrot recorded in the World 18.985 lb 1998(single root mass)
Carrots produce more distilled spirit than potatoes.
If your first name is Carrot it has made you happiest when you are expressing in some creative, artistic way, and not conforming to strict routine.
The Anglo-Saxons included carrots as an ingredient in a medicinal drink against the devil and insanity.
In the Indian state of Rajastan women are obliged to eat carrot seeds. It is believed the carrot seeds have contraceptive qualities.
In magic, carrot seeds are given to help women wishing to have a baby to conceive.
In 1990 Crayola added neon carrot colour to its range of crayons
Wild rabbits do not eat carrots - you have been watching too much Bugs Bunny !
The name 'Carrot' is Celtic, and means 'red of colour'.
All brides should be given carrots. It supposedly brings luck in the kitchen.
The Greeks thought that carrots cured venereal disease.
The Arab cultures thought it a possible aphrodisiac.
According to French popular wisdom (!), eating carrots makes people nice and gives them blushing thighs.
William Wells, also known as Apekonit and Epiconyare, was captured by the Indians in 1784 when he was 14 years old. Apekonit is an Indian Word for several plants including wild carrot. Wells had red hair so his Indian name was "carrot top" or "red head.
Will Rogers (1879-1935) "An onion can make people cry but there has never been a vegetable to make people laugh"
Paul Cezanne (1839-1906) "The day is coming when a single carrot freshly observed will set off a revolution."
Old Yiddish saying "Only in dreams are carrots as big as bears."
Irish Proverb "Never bolt your door with a boiled carrot."
Shel Silverstein "What did the carrot say to the wheat? Lettuce rest, I'm feeling beet."
The World Carrot Museum (http://website.lineone.net/~stolarczyk/index.html)