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by dklsf 4111 days ago
How can "some scholars doubt if orange carrots even existed prior to the 16th century", if there are drawings of orange carrots from the year 512?

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karotte#/media/File:Gemeine_M%C...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vienna_Dioscurides

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Shhht, don't waste a great opportunity to blame the Dutch for something that's probably bad.