The broth of beet is pleasant to the heart and good for the eyes, and how much more so for the bowels. The radish, admittedly is more feverish, but the fire of the radish is a cold fire, the fire of discontent, not of passion. Tomatoes are lusty enough, yet there runs through tomatoes an undercurrent of frivolity.
Beets are deadly serious.
Both chard and sugar beets also developed from this common ancestor. Only in the 2nd and 3rd centuries AD did epicures pronounce it delicious. Surely the last few comments give a spirited definition to the word modesty .