"Janet" > wrote in message
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> In article >,
> says...
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>> It may shock you that baby carrots do not come out of the ground that
>> way.
> There is no little baby carrot garden where these are harvested.
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> Rubbish. Plenty of home gardeners do exactly that; they pull the young
> ones out to thin the row and eat them as baby carrots.
He is referring to the ones commonly sold in this country as baby carrots.
They are not really baby carrots. They are large carrots, grown for
sweetness and cut down to resemble baby ones.
I wondered at one time what happened to Veggie Snacks. These were carrot
sticks that were made from specially grown carrots, and sweeter than the
average ones. I used to buy these back in the 1980's. Well now I know!
Apparently people prefer the "baby" shape.
We also buy carrot chips. Those are larger carrots (probably the sweeter
ones) that have been diagonally, ripple sliced. They are great for dips.