Party with the Vikings

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[ravena_kade]

I never knew that the purple ran out of purple carrots. Cool.

[fbhjr]

Yep, it goes into the water in which you boil them.

[angelamermaid]

I'm reminded of a New Year's Day jaunt across the border to a house in Maine. A group had built a Viking longhouse and was builing a ship. On property owned by a custom harp maker. He had a private turret in his house - there was something very touching that he had a private space that he wouldn't permit us to visit.

Thanks for prompting memories of that day! Now I want to visit something Viking. :-)

[morgan_lafaye]

Cool. Where does one get purple carrots?

[fbhjr]

I'm told he bought them at Roche Brothers Supermarket...

[codemancer]

This is all so cool! I had no idea that purple carrots existed and transferred their purple color to whatever liquid they were cooked in!

Looks like awesome fun, I'd LOVE to try archery :D

[fbhjr]

From what I'm told orange carrots are fairly modern and purple was more common in the past.

[cissa]

From what I've read- which may or may not be true- purple and other-colored carrots were standard in the past. At some point fans of William of Orange decided to breed an ORANGE carrot as a political thing, and they did, and it kinda took over.

I've seen purple, red, and white carrots (which are not parsnips) at local supermarkets. Sometimes yellow, too.

[fbhjr]

Bill tells me that the purple ones show up in Viking literature, and that's why he uses them.

[pallid_regina]

Nice!