April Fools Quiz (OT)
 

Can you tell a phony April Fools story from the truth?
These appeared in an April Fools quiz:

15: Carrots reclassified as a fruit
In 1979 officials in the European Union confirmed what many have
long suspected: that carrots are not, in fact, a vegetable, but are
actually a variety of fruit. The officials urged that appropriate
reclassification efforts should begin at once.

16: Purple Carrots
For those yearning to add a colorful splash to their meals, a British
supermarket announced last year that it will soon be selling purple
carrots. The store hopes that the new offering will appeal to fickle
children who have grown bored by the orange variety.

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April Fools Quiz (OT)
 

15: Carrots reclassified as a fruit (True )
Bureaucrats in the European Union did classify carrots as a fruit in a
1979 directive, apparently because the Portuguese use carrots to make
jam, and anything used to make jam, in their eyes, must be a fruit.

16: Purple Carrots (True )
In 2002 Sainsbury began marketing purple carrots. But carrots have
actually come in purple varieties for thousands of years. The orange
ones are the newcomers, bred to be that color in the 1500s by Dutch
growers paying homage to their royal family, the House of Orange.