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Originally Posted by MattR
Well, If any car deserves to be orange, it's the Spyker. The Dutch put orange on everything.
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Yeah, its kind of their national color. I think back in the 1700's or 1800's when the King of Brittan was Dutch, he was from the "House of Orange" nobility.
EDIT: and to fill our brains with even more useless knowledge, a snippet from Wikipedia.
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Carrots and the House of Orange
Carrots were originally purple, black or red in color and the orange color was brought about by the Dutch. The wild carrot was taken under many countries' horticulural wings to produce a less bitter version, like the one consumed in large volumes today. Orange roots, containing the pigment carotene, first appeared in the 16th century in Holland. This was due to patriotic Dutch growers who bred the vegetable to grow in the colour of the House of Orange. In an attempt to "nationalize" the country's favourite vegetable they began experiments on improving the pale yellow versions. These were crossed with red varieties containing anthocyanin to produce orange-coloured roots. Successive hybridisations intensified the typical "orange" colour of today. By the 1700s Holland was considered the leading country in carrot breeding and today's "modern" orange version is a direct descendendant from the Dutch-bred carrots of that time.
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