Comments on: Kids eating carrots on sticks, 1941

By: James Hardy

James Hardy — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 10:52:00 +0000

John 19:34
“But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and forthwith came there out blood and water”

There’s your impalement

By: AlexG55

AlexG55 — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 00:41:00 +0000

Well, we didn’t have an NHS at all before the war, as just one example- in fact, you could argue that that did “come out of all that misery”. I’d say that British society now is much better than it was in say 1935.

By: jackbird

jackbird — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 00:35:00 +0000

Yeah, those children are TINY.

By: Preston Sturges

Preston Sturges — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 18:44:00 +0000

My mum knows someone who was a child in London during the war and recalls the hunger as being pretty bad.

By: Preston Sturges

Preston Sturges — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 18:43:00 +0000

Liked for linking to the delightful Carrot Museum.

By: Sparrow

Sparrow — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 14:12:00 +0000

And his followers identified themselves by making the sign of the stick to each other. (Later generations completely misinterpreted the meaning of the raised middle finger.) And St. Thomas’ touching of the wounds was quite a spectacle.

By: sean

sean — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 13:39:00 +0000

Boy, look mat the size of them carrots! They sure don’t make ‘em like they used to.

By: malindrome

malindrome — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 09:16:00 +0000

It was wicked hard to get hold of LN2 during the Blitz, but somehow people made do.

By: malindrome

malindrome — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 09:15:00 +0000

Carrot is better than no-carrot, especially when there’s a war on.

By: Beanolini

Beanolini — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 08:17:00 +0000

Carrot AND stick

“I think we should use the carrot and stick approach. Take the carrot and stick it up his fucking arse, followed by the stick, followed by an even bigger, rougher carrot.”

I miss The Thick Of It.

By: Kramski

Kramski — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 07:55:00 +0000

The only way they’re not that different is that both involve wood

By: Wreckrob8

Wreckrob8 — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 07:09:00 +0000

Monty Python but no St. Trinians. The Pythonesque cross dressing didn’t come from the Goons.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 06:19:00 +0000

They shouldn’t be obscure. They’re great films. I’m not sure how much cultural crossover there is between Ealing Comedies and BB readership.

By: Wreckrob8

Wreckrob8 — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 05:49:00 +0000

It is not that obscure is it? Here supermarkets these days are selling lots of old black and white British films on DVD, including all the Ealing Comedy stuff, at only 3-4 quid each.

By: retepslluerb

retepslluerb — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 05:37:00 +0000

We’d be seeing more fishes, nothing more.

By: Donald Petersen

Donald Petersen — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 05:23:00 +0000

Never mind… late to the Luxury party.

By: Ted Bautista

Ted Bautista — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 03:47:00 +0000

the kid on the right looks unhappy but resigned to eating the damn thing

By: jackbird

jackbird — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 01:24:00 +0000

What are you, fruit blind?

By: Lyle Hopwood

Lyle Hopwood — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 01:22:00 +0000

I admit I wasn’t born in 1941, but I’ve had some experience of British carrots in the 60′s and they weren’t fat, short and faceted. I think those might actually be carrot ices – a sort of carrot sorbet.

No, that’s not MUCH better, but it’s less likely to break your teeth and make you hate the world.

By: jackbird

jackbird — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 01:22:00 +0000

Somehow I don’t think the cross would have a horizontal in that case…

By: Miss Demeanor

Miss Demeanor — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 01:22:00 +0000

also NOT a cocksicle

By: jackbird

jackbird — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 01:21:00 +0000

Not just RADAR, but RADAR in the planes themselves. Also, due to prior efforts to promote cultivation of carrots in kitchen gardens, they were faced with an enormous glut of carrots. But mostly the RAF thing.

http://www.carrotmuseum.co.uk/raf.html

By: EMComments

EMComments — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 23:52:00 +0000

Sweet as the moment when the pod went pop!

By: austinhamman

austinhamman — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 23:06:00 +0000

those kids do NOT look happy to be eating carrots on sticks. especially the one in the middle.

By: jimh

jimh — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 22:52:00 +0000

But, wait- oranges were always orange, right?

By: awjt

awjt — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 22:41:00 +0000

If you put a starchy vegetable in the fridge for a week or two, it will saccharify, and turn sweet. In New England, avid gardeners deliberately leave parsnips, carrots and taters in loose earth, to be dug up in spring. Yes, the ground is frozen, but if it’s loose earth you can still dig them out. I don’t know about down South, but this is a common practice among old-timer gardeners in Vermont.

here’s but one example http://www.no-dig-vegetablegarden.com/carrots-leave-old-carrots-in-the-ground-or-dig-out.html

There’s a technique to it

ed (again): look at the pic. They’re wearing coats with short pants, and it looks extra-bleak, like early spring… there are no “ices” but there are sweet carrots. Also, the girl on the left is licking it… kids lick sweet things like the way she is… those are SWEET carrots, which are ACTUALLY A TREAT if you’ve ever had one. I have, and, I must say, for a natural treat, a sweet carrot is WONDERFUL. Sure, I’d rather have me some ice cream. In the absence of ice cream, strawberry shortcake or anything else… I would totally DIG a sweet carrot on a stick.

By: awjt

awjt — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 22:39:00 +0000

Mmmmmm, time for your seconds of mock dandelion greens, little A

By: Lemoutan

Lemoutan — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 22:37:00 +0000

You were lucky

By: awjt

awjt — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 22:35:00 +0000

The world would be hugely different if instead of nailing Christ to the cross, they had jammed it up his asshole and just let him wriggle and moan there until he rectum-bled himself to death. I wonder if the Church would be less or more homophobic if that had happened. Seriously, probably less.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 22:24:00 +0000

When I was a lad, all vegetables were frozen. Unfortunately, that’s actually true.