White Carrots? Huh?

Whenever there are international games, fans who root for The Netherlands don orange outfits and this isn’t a simple coincidence. Its flag bears white, red, and blue but the orange that pervades much of Dutch civilization is an indication of the royal family, belonging to the House of Orange.

So why are carrots color orange? The tale has it that the vegetable originally came in white or yellow but Dutch agriculturists in the past initiated nurturing orange types of the carrot as a tribute to William’s House of Orange. The carrots then rose to fame and disseminated around the globe to become the vegetable’s conventional color.