On top of carrots for the pilots, on December 22, 1940, the British Ministry of Agriculture released a statement urging the populace to eat carrots. “If we included a sufficient quantity of carrots in our diet,” the statement read, “we should overcome the fairly prevalent malady of blackout blindness.”
But the government had another motivation in pushing carrots: Great Britain faced food shortages due to wartime rationing, and carrots were plentiful and cheap. This led government agencies to tout them as having eye-strengthening powers as part of widespread campaigns aimed at getting the British public to eat carrots
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PabloPicasshole@lemmy.world · 38 pts · 3y
On top of carrots for the pilots, on December 22, 1940, the British Ministry of Agriculture released a statement urging the populace to eat carrots. “If we included a sufficient quantity of carrots in our diet,” the statement read, “we should overcome the fairly prevalent malady of blackout blindness.”
But the government had another motivation in pushing carrots: Great Britain faced food shortages due to wartime rationing, and carrots were plentiful and cheap. This led government agencies to tout them as having eye-strengthening powers as part of widespread campaigns aimed at getting the British public to eat carrots
gatelike@feddit.de · 19 pts · 3y
white lies, orange lunches.
abraham_linksys@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 3y
White lies, orange carrots
dill@lemmy.one · 6 pts · 3y
High brow meme culture
skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl · 6 pts · 3y
GreenPlasticSushiGrass@kbin.social · 5 pts · 3y
Brilliant! Most won't get it, though