Comment on Discussion Thread Tuesday 29 🛸 April 2025
Bottom_racer@aussie.zone 1 week agoThis is why I eat a lot of carrots.
So I can guard my single backup can of baked beans in the dark.
Comment on Discussion Thread Tuesday 29 🛸 April 2025
Bottom_racer@aussie.zone 1 week agoThis is why I eat a lot of carrots.
So I can guard my single backup can of baked beans in the dark.
Alamutjones@aussie.zone 1 week ago
Sadly, the carrot thing is a myth. Deliberately spread by the British government during the war, no less, as an explanation for why they could track German bombers in the dark without letting on that they’d invented radar.
Carrots were one of the few foods it was easy to get lots of. Many fascinating recipes for carroty marmalade!
Bottom_racer@aussie.zone 1 week ago
TIL! and that’s really interesting.
The baked beans remain at risk!
Alamutjones@aussie.zone 1 week ago
The government released a whole pile of food related PSAs at the time, telling people about substitutions they could make, thrifty ways to stretch rations further or clever recipes that used food they could get easily in place of using imports.
The “Ministry of Food” put in a ton of work. I’ve got a cookbook that recreates a lot of their material. It’s very carrot-heavy!
PeelerSheila@aussie.zone 1 week ago
What is this cookbook called?