[Sca-cooks] Carrots

[Daniel Myers]

On Apr 1, 2008, at 4:46 PM, Suey wrote:
> The night air raids over England during World War II were stopped   
> by a
> special Air Force Batallion that was given enormous rations of carrots
> to eat so they could see in the dark. After that carrots became the
> second most consumed product in the world after potatoes.



A good story, but unfortunately it's not true.  Apparently the  
British government didn't want the Germans to figure out that they  
were using radar, so they planted this story about carrots and eyesight.

http://www.snopes.com/food/ingredient/carrots.asp

- Doc


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