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The Wingham Advance-Times, 1983-01-19, Page 17Si j irley A young person I know has said this about carrots: "They are the least gross of all vegetables." Any kid will tell you that gross es abound. Turnips and parsnips have unfortunate textures, and smell of some- thing unspeakable. So do Brussels sprouts. We once stripped our kitchen almost to the lath tracking down one of our famous smells and eventually traced it to the re- frigerator where an ancient broccoli was quietly stinking. Not only does the carrot gton's salut not smell, it is as sturdy as an old boot. Not so the cauli- flower, easily bruised and browned -off. Nor fife lady- like lettuce which wilts and faints on a whim. Nor celery, which it Must be admitted, does not hold its age well. Or spinach which if unused transmorgifies into slimy green glop. Or the thin- skinned tempermental tomato which catches ..the pox and goes off suddenly. But then - what can you ex- pect from a fruit that Inas- querades as a vegetable? Carrots are .cheap too. Why doesn't the army use them as ammunition? Ima- gine a battle field where the. air was zinging with flying carrots? Nobody would get „very badly hurt. Defense spending would plummet and the farmers of this coun- try would become wealthy Crossroads -Jan. 19, 1983 -Page 5 the super tu munitions magnates like the Krupps. Carrots are also sensibly designed. Compared to the pineapple or the artichoke the carrot is a miracle of simplicity. Carrots lack bones, gristle, cores, seeds, stalks, thick skins and ex- cess fat. When you buy a car- rot, a carrot is What you get. 1 don't know how you Peo- ple out there Manage with those enormous thick- skinned squash but I used to throw mine down the cellar stairs hoping to fracture, them into pot -sized pieces. I AND CONDITIONER Shampoo and conditioner pack. 450 mL each. nacM :t0 8 BOYS' FLANNEL PYJAMAS COTTON. 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Carrots have played sup- porting roles with frozen peas for so long they have become type -cast. Fans of this self-effacing vegetable are often startler when a carrot bursts ont , the menu in -a eamy p, with a couple of s p. How about bare -naked carrots, raw and sliced and playing the role of crudites? Last week a friend brought me some carrot -pineapple muffins - a treat as tender and light as a cloud. Carrot cake is not new, nor is carrot pudding. But have you ever r tried carrot marmalade? There is also, for those who know how to squeeze it, car- rot juice. Off stage, a carrot can be used as the nose for a snow- man ora Jack, O'latern. Those Illustrated Guides for the Indoor Gardener usually have diagrams showing how to suspend a carrot fragment a' tantalizing few centi- metres above some life- giving water - a form of horticultural torture which produces a feathery plant. I used to steal carrots from my mother's crisper to give to the milkman's horse. This was a deliciously terrifying venture for a city girl - to hold the carrot flat on the palm under the beast's vel- vety nose, and then have it disappear with a warm whuff and a loud crunch. I always counted my fingers afterwards. Shakespeare understood carrots. Remember that famous soliloquy from Omelette? "Is this a carrot I see before me, the green fuzzy part toward my hand? It's not? It's a dagger? Good! I'll go cut up some crudites." The year ahead is likely to be challenging, but take a lesson from the carrot. Be bright, sturdy, versatile, un- pretentious and not gross. And the next time you go out for dinner, take a bag of gold with you. Twenty-four carrots. ANTI- PERSPIRANT. Limit 1 per customer. Minimum quantity per store - 60. SHRINKPROOF. Limit 6 per customer. Minimum quantity per store - 176. 2 piece acrylic suits with hooded tops. Boys' and girls' styles. 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In her book, Gillies includes full- size patterns for flowers, ice cream cones, whimsi- cal creatures, and patch- work for the tote bags, pil- lows, pot "holders, crib quilts and ornaments. Pleasant paths, like other patterns in the book, has more than one applica- tion. If -you omit the side strips, you have a perfect square for a pillow top. Here are simplified di- rections for the place mats: MATERIALS: Suggested fabrics: One-half yard blue print fabric, 44 inches in width, for design and back- ing; white fabric, 9 by 22 inches for design; polyester batting, 15 by 20 inches; cardboard; pencil; ruler; scissors; sewing supplies. PATTERNS: 1. Draw two 1112 by 11/2 inch squares on cardboard. 2. Cut out squares. 3. Cut one square in half diagonally. Label one resulting triangle Shape A. Label remaining Robert Burns And his eyes must have twinkled when he wrote: "Hale he your heart, hale be your fiddle' Lang may your elhuck jink and diddle, To cheer you Ihro' the weary widdle )' warly cares Till bairns' bairns kindly cuddle Your auld grey hairs' 0 R 0 Second line. elbuck, elbow jink. dance diddle, shake Third line. widdle, wriggle Fourth line, warly, wo illy Fifth line, bairns' bairns, grandchildren cuddle. fondle 1. square Shape B. 4. 'Draw a rectangle, 3 by 11/2 inches. Cut and label it Shape C.. 5. Draw a rectangle, 4 by 11/2 inches. Cut and label it Shape D. 6. Draw a rectan- gle, 2. by 13/2 inches. Cut and label it Shape E. CUTTING: Trace around cardboard shapes, on wrong side of fabric using a pencil to mark exact seam line for stitching. 2. On blue print, trace four A, six B, 12 C, three D, and two E pieces. 3. On white fabric, trace four A, 10 8, eight C, and four D pieces. 4. Cut out all pieces, adding a 5/2 -inch seam allowance. 5. 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