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Carrots and the Battle of Britain
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Posted: Thursday, May 19, 2005 - 05:24 AM UTC
Here's an interesting bit from Snopes.com on a strange connection between what our parents told us about carrots improving our vision and the Battle of Britain.
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Posted: Thursday, May 19, 2005 - 05:58 AM UTC
Gotta love those wacky Brits...
Thanks for the link Al. Amazing how stuff like that lasts forever and becomes "fact" when it all started out as BS.

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Posted: Thursday, May 19, 2005 - 06:06 AM UTC
I always just assumed everybody was told this about carrots. Mum was an English war bride and she'd swear on a stack of Bibles that carrots made you see better in the dark. I never thought to ask any of my friends I grew up with if their parents told them the same thing.

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Posted: Thursday, May 19, 2005 - 07:25 AM UTC
Nice one Al

Wish i a $ for every time my mother told me carrots were good for my eyes...lol lol good i would have a stash om models.
Cheers from a Wacky Brit here in the US......"Now where did i put my glasss :-) :-)
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Posted: Thursday, May 19, 2005 - 06:51 PM UTC

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I always just assumed everybody was told this about carrots. Mum was an English war bride and she'd swear on a stack of Bibles that carrots made you see better in the dark. I never thought to ask any of my friends I grew up with if their parents told them the same thing.



I'm British, forty years old, was forced to eatr carrots as a child and don't need glasses... conclusive proof- n'est-ce pas? :-)
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Posted: Friday, May 20, 2005 - 03:44 AM UTC

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I'm British, forty years old, was forced to eatr carrots as a child and don't need glasses... conclusive proof- n'est-ce pas?


I carefully chose my avatar because it most looks like me. Notice the glasses? I've worn them since I was 12, and last year got my first set of tri-focals. Carrots are one of the three or four vegetables I really like. So much for carrots making you see better.

:-)
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Posted: Friday, May 20, 2005 - 03:52 AM UTC

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I'm British, forty years old, was forced to eatr carrots as a child and don't need glasses... conclusive proof- n'est-ce pas?


If man was meant to eat Carrots, he would have been born with tall, floppy ears....

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Posted: Friday, May 20, 2005 - 06:31 AM UTC
You've got to admire the genius of it. To persist all of these years!

Just imagine what little white lies still remain classified???? And may never be de-classified.
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Posted: Friday, May 20, 2005 - 06:42 AM UTC
Ola Guys

Well of course carrots improve your eyesight have you ever seen a rabbit with Glasses?

I actually really like these kind of stories as they belong in the corner of Deception operations. It is not the first deception the Brits or the Americans used to fool ze Dzjermans

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Posted: Monday, May 23, 2005 - 01:24 AM UTC

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I'm British, forty years old, was forced to eatr carrots as a child and don't need glasses... conclusive proof- n'est-ce pas?


If man was meant to eat Carrots, he would have been born with tall, floppy ears....



Funny you should say that...
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Posted: Monday, May 23, 2005 - 04:17 AM UTC
Very interesting. Perhaps a dio of Night Fighter pilots eating carrots is in order!!
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Posted: Monday, May 23, 2005 - 04:24 AM UTC

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Very interesting. Perhaps a dio of Night Fighter pilots eating carrots is in order!!

Or better yet, several Luftwaffe pilots gorging themselves on carrots. :-)
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Posted: Monday, May 23, 2005 - 10:57 AM UTC
I never liked carrots and never will. All my temper tantrums and sulking at being force fed these horrible vegetables are now justified. I will now throw this in the face of my father and my beloved ( but i won't show the kids, as they can suffer as i have) for making me eat them under false pretences. :-) :-) :-) :-)
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