Baby carrots

[shkrobius]

I've met countless people believing that "baby carrots" are, literally, carrot "babies" that are harvested before they are fully grown. In fact, "baby carrots" are fully grown substandard carrots that are hacked into 2" pieces and polished down in a potato peeler to look like the small ones

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[eta_ta]

ashamed to say, I, too, always thought baby carrots are akin to "baby" potato. As in - undergrown root vegetable, harvested before full maturity.

thanks for letting me know!

[shkrobius]

Here, here.

[bratezkrolik]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hear,_hear

[shkrobius]

tut, tut

[seminarist]

Aren't you supposed to say 'There, there?'

[shkrobius]

It was a bad joke, sorry.