How do you fancy making a snowman that looks like Sir Alex
Ferguson this winter?
Assuming that – unlike last year – we actually have enough
snow to make the job viable, it’ll be easy. All you need to do is make a
regular snowman and then, when it’s time for putting his nose in place, pop
down to any good grocers. I went to my local Asda. Those of you who are posh
can go to a farmers market and those who aren’t pricked by a social conscience
might find Tesco is good too. They should all sell what you want though.
Buy a purple carrot, that’ll do the trick nicely.
We got a pack of mixed carrots this week. There were some
normal-looking orange ones and some that were pale yellow, the colour of
turnips. The white ones looked more like parsnips than carrots yet tasted
disappointingly normal, but by far the most interesting were the purple ones.
They weren’t purple as in ‘slightly tinted’ but purple like the colour of
boiled beetroot. Proper purple. They even discoloured the water when we boiled
them too. The best bit was when we cut one open though. Through its centre were
points of a much more carroty orange, like a starburst all the way through it.
It was like a carrot in disguise but with bits of it’s true self peeking
through. Beautiful.
And this got me thinking. What else is there that the
general public don’t know about? Orange cauliflowers, black apricots, yellow
and red striped tomatoes. Big tomatoes that are square so they fit onto
sandwiches better when sliced. These all exist and so do many others. We should
try them out I guess. My philosophy is to try everything twice: once to see if
you like it and again just to make sure that you weren’t just unlucky with a
bad batch the first time. But not garlic of any kind, of course. That would be
just plain wrong, like iced coffee.
So today’s challenge is for us all to look at things in new
ways, re-evaluate things that we’ve come to know and have maybe become a little
bored of. Like our jobs, our relationships or our homes.
And carrots.
© Shaun Finnie 2012
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