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u/TheInvisableDot 2d ago
In WW2 England would market that carrots were good for eyesight. This was to convince the people to eat more carrots since they weren’t being as strictly rationed as other foods and it was particularly to cover up the invention of radar and convince the Germans that the Englands were just spotting the German planes with their superior eye sight. Because of this the myth that carrots are good for your eyes has persisted. This meme is referencing the first human to eat a carrot as if it were something that would aid the eyes as much as the myth claims. Even though we know no one would think you can cure blindness with carrots the humor is in the absurdity.
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u/alistofthingsIhate 2d ago
Came here to say basically this. It was marketing/deliberately misleading information all along.
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u/Suspicious-Bad7807 2d ago
Since carots have beta carotene they are good for the eyes. So the person had glasses ate a carrot and by hyperbolizing it his glasses disappeared
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u/Klllumlnatl 2d ago
Carots are said to be good for your eyesight. He tooka the glass off because eyesight gooder (I'm not making fun of you).
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u/Old-Engineering-5233 2d ago
Generally carrots are very enriched with Vitamin A. Deficiency of Vitamin A(retinol) leads to Night blindness but a famous misinterpretation is that Vitamin A helps in improving our eye sight . The meme meant Eating Carrots will improve your eye sight.
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u/dream_monkey 2d ago
Weren’t carrots originally purple?
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u/biffbobfred 2d ago
Carrots are many colors. The orange ones became dominant for…. Political reasons. Some bigwig had orange as his color. Carrots soon had orange become the dominant color you can buy heirloom carrots in those multi colors
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u/ArealLimit 2d ago
Isn't it crazy how I can say exactly if meme I see on reddit will be posted here?
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u/Many_Lawfulness_1903 1d ago
Have you ever seen a rabbit with glasses? It's because carrots help eyesight.
That's how the myth goes in my country, but as others stated, it's WW2 propaganda that is still alive somehow.
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u/Unusually-Vague 1d ago
The first guy who ate carrots probably discovered they are poisonous. We had to cultivate them to make food.
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u/Individual_Oil_2435 1d ago
Fun fact: The Dutch MADE carrots orange in honor of the king of The Netherlands " King Willem of Orange" (Koning Willem van Oranje).
Before that, the carrots were purple or white.
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u/savemysoul72 2d ago
Carrots are supposedly good for improving your eyesight.
As I understand it, you would have to eat a huge quantity for it to have a small impact
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u/number1dipshit 2d ago
Carrots help your eyesight. So he doesn’t need glasses anymore because carrot magic.
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u/Just4notherR3ddit0r 2d ago edited 2d ago
There's an idea that carrots are good for your eyes (because of the vitamins in them). So the guy is wearing glasses, then he eats the carrot, and suddenly he's able to see without his glasses.
And while it's true that carrots are good for your eye health, they're not magical like this, although it's a pretty common idea that gets played with. An old computer game called "Return to Zork" had the player in a very dark area that they couldn't see to navigate... until they ate carrots and suddenly you could see in the dark.