Condon’s New Early Coreless Carrot (Feb, 1937)
Those carrots look a lot like the balloons you use to make balloon animals out of.
Condon’s New Early Coreless Carrot
Contains healthful vitamins. Thrives everywhere. Gardeners say finest carrot cultivated. Returns off $700 per acre reported. To Introduce this fine vegetable and our Superior Pure Bred Seeds and Plants we will mail you 125 Seeds and Our Big 1937 Illustrated Catalog FREE.
Send 3c stamp to cover postage.
CONDON BROS., SEEDSMEN BOX 190 ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS
Nice to see that the Condon carrot appears to have a reservoir tip.
Comment by Charlene — February 11, 2010 @ 4:14 pm
Charlene: Badum ching!
Comment by Firebrand38 — February 11, 2010 @ 4:38 pm
Tsk, tsk, tsk
Doesn’t anyone of you grow carrots? Remember the funny varietes with, ehhh… “appendages”
Comment by Jari — February 11, 2010 @ 7:41 pm
Why would anyone make a coreless carrot? The core is the best part.
Comment by AshleyZ — February 11, 2010 @ 8:56 pm
@AshleyZ too right! I was just thinking that, the core is the sweetest part of the carrot, everything else tastes bad.
Comment by RatherAmusing — February 12, 2010 @ 7:47 am
@AshleyZ “The core is the best part.”
Tastes like chicken.
Rick
Comment by rick — February 12, 2010 @ 2:27 pm
rick: Cue the applause
Comment by Firebrand38 — February 12, 2010 @ 2:32 pm
They spelled “condom” wrong! Yeah I know, late to the party.
Comment by Myles — February 12, 2010 @ 7:18 pm
Myles: Cue the applause
Comment by Firebrand38 — February 12, 2010 @ 7:20 pm
Why would you want a coreless carrot? That’s like an airless balloon!!!!
Comment by Richard @ The Bewildered Brit — February 16, 2010 @ 6:35 pm
Richard @ The Bewildered Brit: People buy airless balloons all the time (but you knew that).
Or did you want to buy 1440 balloons already inflated?
Comment by Firebrand38 — February 16, 2010 @ 7:10 pm
Someone actually sent the “3c stamp”:
http://cgi.ebay.com/Old-Seed-P.....91013r8248
And yes, Firebrand38, I know it’s not the “1937 Illustrated Catalog”. Stop ruining people’s fun.
Comment by docca — February 17, 2010 @ 7:25 pm
docca: Stop pointing out dumb analogies? That ain’t gonna happen. Just trying to keep everyone intellectually honest.
If you think that misstatements of fact are funny then you need to check out Glenn Beck (and yeah, I know he cries a lot over misstatements of fact).
Comment by Firebrand38 — February 17, 2010 @ 7:41 pm
How the hell did this turn into Glenn Beck promotion?
Anyways, I was going to post “I hope the rest of the “big, illustrated catalog” is this sexy” but apparently we’re all over the age of 12, so I’ll take it back.
Comment by katey — February 17, 2010 @ 10:43 pm
katey: If you thought that was a promotion you didn’t click on the link that I provided.
Comment by Firebrand38 — February 18, 2010 @ 12:17 am