Beet Red

[AiA in Atlanta]

Jovial Monk, I would have put the following in the Food Thread if we had one but I am not sure it would be a good fit anyway:

Recently at the Farmers' Market I noticed a display of fat red organic beets. Someone in the last year or so had given me a golden beet (saying it was healthy) and I wasn't impressed but had heard again recently that the intense red color of the vegetable is a sign that it contains something good for human bodies so I bought one. Sliced open it was indeed the most intense shade of I had ever seen and the first bite tasted like ... dirt. Not wanting it to go to waste I ate the rest of it over the course of a few days; the taste somehow grew on me so during my next trip to the Farmers' Market I bought another one. And another. Now I average one beet a week.

The big surprise was my poo - it was beet red. Not just once but every time I ate beet. Then last night my pee was the color of pink lemonade.

What is going on? Is my body not digesting the beet properly and the color along with the nutrients are being flushed out of my body and down the toilet? Any other beet eaters out there?

Help me.

Signed

-- beat nick

[Jovial Monk]

bwahahaha pink pee and red poo?

Sorry, beetroot is just too earthy for me so I don't eat it. Sure it was organic? Not just colored with some food dye? Ask the people you buy it from.

Not every early morning that I discuss pee and poo

[AiA in Atlanta]

bwahahaha pink pee and red poo?

Sorry, beetroot is just too earthy for me so I don't eat it. Sure it was organic? Not just colored with some food dye? Ask the people you buy it from.

Not every early morning that I discuss pee and poo

It was indeed organic ... and I paid extra for the privilege. I could open a lemonade stand.

[Hebe]

Beetroot does taste of dirt, but it growns on you (if not in you) . I suppose the dark red indicated anti-oxidants, the current health darling. (Anyway, you can't have a recession burger without it.)

[Jovial Monk]

Heh, I paid a very fleeting visit to the ABC Carpark Caper. I kid you not one of the plants on sales was Hebe jeebee!!

[AiA in Atlanta]

Beetroot does taste of dirt, but it growns on you (if not in you) . I suppose the dark red indicated anti-oxidants, the current health darling. (Anyway, you can't have a recession burger without it.)

What are the ingredients of this recession burger?

[Hebe]

Beetroot.

The all-purpose recession food, at least for carnivores, is hamburger. Ground cow. Lips n' assholes, as my old college roomie used to say. As long as you cook the shit (literally) out of it, you're safe.

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I got some very funny results with Google

[JW Frogen]

Beetroot does taste of dirt, but it growns on you (if not in you) . I suppose the dark red indicated anti-oxidants, the current health darling. (Anyway, you can't have a recession burger without it.)

What are the ingredients of this recession burger?

My late father used to eat katsup sandwiches all the time, just bread and katsup.

Why? During the depression that is often all they had and developed a life long fondess for it.

It strange when you talk to people who lived through the great depression they often look back at with a strange since of fondness, as if it were the best time of their life. Certainly there was a stronger sense of community then, less empty commercial canibalism.

[Jovial Monk]

My mother lived through the Depression, mostly when she talks about it she is bitter about the Dutch PM then who went around saying "economise! economise!" and made the Depression much worse.

Not much affection for that time.

[Hebe]

My late father used to eat katsup sandwiches all the time, just bread and katsup.

My Dad was brought up then on bread and dripping, which we all now love. Freaks the health nuts right out.