Carrot vs Maconochie - What's the difference?
carrot | maconochie |
A vegetable with a nutritious, juicy, orange, sweet root, Daucus carota in the family Apiaceae.
A shade of orange similar to the flesh of carrots.
A motivational tool.
A tinned stew of sliced turnips and carrots, a widely-used food ration for British soldiers in front-line trenches during World War I.
*1928 , (Siegfried Sassoon), Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man , Penguin 2013, p. 262:
*:Dottrell said the toasted cheese wasn't too bad, and ‘There's worse things in the world than half-warmed Maconochie ,’ he remarked.
*1975 , (Paul Fussell), The Great War and Modern Memory , OUP 2013, p. 53:
*:The troops seemed to like the Maconochie best, but the Germans favored the British corned beef, seldom returning from a raid on the British lines without taking back as much as they could carry.