General Chat

Sorry to hear about your diverticulitis Maggie. :-(

Well, since developing diverticular disease, I can no longer eat beetroot (which I love) in 'comfort'.
I've tried purple carrots - they had the same effect :-S
I avoid any purple/black veg now :-(

Purple carrots were the only carrots a few thousand years ago,

:-D.

Thank you for your kind comments. We had a wonderful time, booked to go again next year.


Kay I have just been reading about some seeds for black carrots, I may give them a try.
:-D

Were they 100 year old carrots?

Only orange carrots in Sainsburys this morning :-D

I will stick to the old tried and tested carrot,
it all sounds too confusing for me and if there
is no difference in taste why bother.

Welcome back Paula :-)

Black carrots are infact purple,some varieties are darker than others and are purple all through,,,,,,,they are grown on our allotments purley for showing,as are purple sprouts and rainbow pak choi.....yellow,green and red.
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they can be grown at home in a deep sides vessle abt 15 inches deep,,light sandy soil with no fertiliser which carrots dont like.........cover with a net to stop carrot fly and help with flea bettles.

they can be roasted.

As an aside from carrots ( not my favourite veg), welcome back, hope you had a good time and where did you stay?

A couple of Christmases ago I got a sealed pack of mixed-coloured carrots from Sainsbury as a novelty. They all tasted the same to me so maybe it's the way they were cooked that made the taste different from your usual carrot, Polly?

I'm certain I've seen varieties in other supermarkets here.

We tried purple carrots....... they didn't taste any different to orange ones.

Black? maybe they were charred purple ones. lol

Just my personal taste Prickles. I have to say they were delicious, so did OH and he doesn't even like carrots :) :-D

Maybe different species........

But I really want to know why they taste so amazing?

There are carrots of many colours the purple one usually cook darker as do the red ones,,,,,,there is yellow.,orange round ones even which look most odd on a plate.....

they are in lots of big supermarkets,,,large M&S often have them.....

Definitely black. :-D

They're different species Prickolls

:-)

They're probably crossed with licorice. That would account for the amazing taste :-D

Everything you ever wanted to know about carrots!

http://www.carrotmuseum.co.uk/index.html

they sound like blue potatoes, which are actually mauvish or bluish-grey, often with a whiter area in the centre.

The skins are so dark that they look black!

Ok .........clever, high heeled, flipper person. :-D

What is the bally difference betwix a purple carrot and a black carrot?

Before answering.......do take into account that I am a woman of the world.

Trust me,....I knows about these things!

:-D

Hello Prickles, sychronised again :-D

Errm...there are purple carrots and there are black carrots :-)
The black ones look like coalmans fingers :-D