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The Origin and Evolution of Baby Carrots (2019)

carrotmuseum.co.uk

47 pointsbobbiechen18 comments

I absolutely love baby carrots. When I feel like having a snack in the afternoon or after dinner, it's much better to eat a bowl of baby carrots than to eat potato chips or similar junk food.

They keep for a long time in the fridge, and I can eat them straight out of the bag without any prep work.

I usually get 4 2-pound bags whenever I'm at Costco.

Baby 'Cut' carrots or the ones picked very young?

Baby cut, which is all the article talks about

why are they preferred over the big bag of "normal" carrots at costco?

As the article points out, at least on the inventor's farm 70% of carrots come out too deformed or misshapen to sell that way, so before this guy came along they were tossed. So these days the "abnormal" (but perfectly fine) carrots are cut into small pieces and sold as "baby carrots".

It wasn't clear to me from the article whether that is still the case, or whether it has now transformed into a segment based on straight carrots. Would be interesting to know how the volume of discarded carrots has developed over the years.

Because I can eat them straight out of the bag without any need to rinse, peel, or cut them. They are ready to eat, in perfectly sized bites.

When I right click on this website it says:

"Contact the webmaster for copying requests"

I haven't seen this sort of nonsense for ages. That's not how the web or copyright works.

Some workarounds:

* Fetch the page in curl

* Run this in the js console: `document.body.oncontextmenu = null`

* Open the dev tools ui and copy from the "elements" tab

Nice suggestions. I would also add: disable javascript

* File -> Save As

* Ctrl+A, Ctrl+C

You can still highlight and copy with keyboard commands, though, somewhat defeating the protection.

I think that the story is a little bit fantasy.

At one point it is said that the guy was throwing 400 tonnes of carrots every day!! That looks a little bit excessive to me...

Pro tip: Put salt on them.

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