How Carrots Became the new Junk Food

Re:How Carrots Became the new Junk Food by smokinn on Wednesday March 23, 2011 @03:58PM (#2361121)

I love raw carrots as well but JoeAltmaier pinpointed the reason I don't buy baby carrots anymore: they're slimy.

I have no idea why but a couple of years back the carrots started getting slimy and it got progressively worse.

Now, instead of eating a bunch of baby carrots as a snack I just take a whole carrot and cut it into quarters lengthwise and eat that.

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Re:How Carrots Became the new Junk Food by oihujyfgthyjuik on Wednesday March 23, 2011 @05:35PM (#2361570)

When they were a luxury food the baby carrots were actually 'young' carrots.

Now they are popular they are just sections of whole carrots put through a press to cut and shape them. They are basically carrot 'french fries' thats why the end up slimy

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Re:How Carrots Became the new Junk Food by kragen on Wednesday March 23, 2011 @04:55PM (#2361418)

> I have no idea why but a couple of years back the carrots started getting slimy and it got progressively worse.

This reminds me:

The sigh at the crises of the Brisbane symphony no longer irritated Vashti; she accepted it as part of the melody. The jarring noise, whether in the head or in the wall, was no longer resented by her friend. And so with the mouldy artificial fruit, so with the bath water that began to stink, so with the defective rhymes that the poetry machine had taken to emit. All were bitterly complained of at first, and then acquiesced in and forgotten.

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