Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 247, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 November 1917 — Beet Root and Turnip Diet. [ARTICLE]

Beet Root and Turnip Diet.

Beet root and turnips are ancient articles of diet, and it Is Interesting to recall what the Roman satirist martial thought of them. Beet root, he tells us, was the worker’s meal, and he condemns it as insipid, wine and pepper being needed accompaniments, but he highly appreciates turnips. These seem to him very ambrosia, for Romulus feasts on them in heaven.