On Monday, July 22, 2013 4:11:26 AM UTC-6, Julie Bove wrote:
> "Janet" > wrote in message
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> >> It may shock you that baby carrots do not come out of the ground that
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> > 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
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> > ones out to thin the row and eat them as baby carrots.
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> He is referring to the ones commonly sold in this country as baby carrots.
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> They are not really baby carrots. They are large carrots, grown for
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> sweetness and cut down to resemble baby ones.
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> I wondered at one time what happened to Veggie Snacks. These were carrot
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> sticks that were made from specially grown carrots, and sweeter than the
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> average ones. I used to buy these back in the 1980's. Well now I know!
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> Apparently people prefer the "baby" shape.
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> We also buy carrot chips. Those are larger carrots (probably the sweeter
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> ones) that have been diagonally, ripple sliced. They are great for dips.

Lordie, those baby carrots are NOT cut down from larger carrots. There are NO little elves with lathes working on them either. Where on Earth do people
come up with these crazy things?