“Beet Evil With Beets!” – IOTW Report

“Beet Evil With Beets!”

Footage from ca. 1942 – with the aim of encouraging factory workers to produce the best canned beet products possible.

34 Comments on “Beet Evil With Beets!”

  1. Poor people like water and air too. 😉

    If you lift weights and you don’t use beet powder or juice, you are really missing out on a good thing. Beet juice will improve your performance in the gym. Look it up. I juice them stems, leaves, and all, after a good scrubbing. Best NOx boost I’ve found.

  2. Meerkat, they taste like dirt when you juice them. Not a very good selling point, I know. But I still juice the hell out of them. I never really liked them when my mom use to cook them with dinner. But I sure do miss her cooking.

  3. Dang, I love beets! Fresh from the garden, wash and peel…better than apple, eat right there in the yard on the way over to the carrots and bell peppers:)

    Love ’em in a salad! Chop them small and stir’em in 🙂

  4. Unruly….I befriended a Russian family a few years back. I helped them repair a couple of cars and they had me over for Borscht,,,I made it several times after that and it was never as good as they made it. Mama knew some sneaky tricks…

  5. Beet powder in my workout shaker and fresh beets in my salads-beet juice too with some limes and carrots is a wonderful afternoon pick me up. My gal brought in about 20 from the garden yesterday-so weird to be harvesting in late Nov but we’ve still got a lot more to bring in.

    Gave up running 30 years ago Unruly, even then my knees were making crinkle sounds-so glad I did too. Yesterday was leg day and I love squats, don’t think I’d be doing them with bad knees.

  6. MM, you can’t beat food fresh from the garden, that is by far the best kind.

    I don’t do much running anymore myself, too much of a shock on the fused vertebrae. I’ll run my dogs while I ride a mountain bike or just walk with them along the river. This is a good time of year for that.

    Goodnight (or morning for you day shift guys)

  7. @geoff the aardvark:

    Oh, yeah–pickled beets!!! Yum, especially when they’ve been chilled…more satisfying than any ‘sweet’ you can think of. I eat them right out of the jar (I live alone), then drink the juice for an extra treat.

    Borscht is fantastic too, if prepared properly. Store beets usually suck, so you need to find a farmer who grows them, preferably organically. Sweeter than your favorite apple!

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