After finding this exploded baby carrot today, I was forced to search the internet high and low (well, actually it took 0.21 seconds) to figure out where baby carrots came from anyway. It's a conspiracy--we've all been misled.
How did it explode like that? I always assumed that baby carrots were whittled down from regular-sized ones -- they're too perfect to be natural -- I just wondered how much of the carrot we were throwing away to get them that small.
It does seem like they would throw a lot away to get the perfectly shaped carrots, but actually the guy who invented them did so as a way to use carrots that were originally misshapen and weren't "perfect" enough to sell.
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How did it explode like that? I always assumed that baby carrots were whittled down from regular-sized ones -- they're too perfect to be natural -- I just wondered how much of the carrot we were throwing away to get them that small.
Don't they come from mommy carrot?
It does seem like they would throw a lot away to get the perfectly shaped carrots, but actually the guy who invented them did so as a way to use carrots that were originally misshapen and weren't "perfect" enough to sell.
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