I worked at a family-owned (not my family) market/garden center for several summers, and after countless 12 hour days of dealing with produce, produce, and nothing but produce, seeing a dozen tables of vendors hawking veggies and fruits in the summer sun doesn't really excite me.
Still, I wanted some fresh stuff, and I was pleasantly surprised by their selection. I ended up with a bunch of zucchini (for shredding/freezing for muffins), tomatoes (for salads), and purple peppers. Yes, one of the vendors had purple peppers and I think I should have bought more than the 6 I did buy. Look for my recipe for purple slaw later today.
carolinian you should have run with it- you could be rich. Since, sadly, the "rainbow diet" is now a real thing. Eat foods of every color every day and you'll lose weight! I guess veggies are what have color and eating them is good... but still- sounds stupid. And purple haze is pretty good stuff- i haven't seen it around here though. maybe at prespa.
Right around the time the Atkins diet was really popular, a friend and I came up with our own fad diet that would sweep the world: The Purple Diet. This diet would be quite simple--you only eat foods that are purple and avoid everything else.
Instead of eating Apples, red meat, and broccoli, you might substitute eggplant, plums, and drink Purple Haze beer :::link:::