[HN Gopher] The Origin and Evolution of Baby Carrots
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       The Origin and Evolution of Baby Carrots
        
       Author : bobbiechen
       Score  : 33 points
       Date   : 2022-03-24 02:21 UTC (20 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.carrotmuseum.co.uk)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.carrotmuseum.co.uk)
        
       | chihuahua wrote:
       | 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.
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       | They keep for a long time in the fridge, and I can eat them
       | straight out of the bag without any prep work.
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       | I usually get 4 2-pound bags whenever I'm at Costco.
        
         | w-ll wrote:
         | Baby 'Cut' carrots or the ones picked very young?
        
           | chihuahua wrote:
           | Baby cut, which is all the article talks about
        
         | kyleee wrote:
         | why are they preferred over the big bag of "normal" carrots at
         | costco?
        
           | chihuahua wrote:
           | Because I can eat them straight out of the bag without any
           | need to rinse, peel, or cut them. They ready to eat, in
           | perfectly sized bites.
        
           | not2b wrote:
           | 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".
        
       | dvh wrote:
        
         | gunfighthacksaw wrote:
         | I'm sure with 15 minutes of whittling and chopping you could
         | get two, maybe three baby carrots out of a DD cultivar.
        
         | lg wrote:
         | funny i am the exact opposite, always disappointed when the bag
         | of carrots I bought is full of skinny little guys. so much more
         | chopping to get the same amount of carrot!
        
         | godelski wrote:
         | I often see these sold as "French Carrots". They will come in
         | bunches and have the tops. I think they taste better, are
         | smaller and thinner, but more expensive.
        
       | spullara wrote:
       | When I right click on this website it says:
       | 
       | "Contact the webmaster for copying requests"
        
         | InitialLastName wrote:
         | You can still highlight and copy with keyboard commands,
         | though, somewhat defeating the protection.
        
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