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The Origin and Evolution of Baby Carrots (2019)
- dvh 5y ago
- gunfighthacksaw 5y agoI’m sure with 15 minutes of whittling and chopping you could get two, maybe three baby carrots out of a DD cultivar.
- lg 5y agofunny 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!
- gnicholas 5y agoAlso, more peeling because of the higher surface area to volume ratio!
- godelski 5y agoI 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 5y agoWhen I right click on this website it says: "Contact the webmaster for copying requests"
- InitialLastName 5y agoYou can still highlight and copy with keyboard commands, though, somewhat defeating the protection.
- rtb 5y agoI 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
- justsomehnguy 5y ago* File -> Save As * Ctrl+A, Ctrl+C
- motardo 5y agoNice suggestions. I would also add: disable javascript
- chihuahua 5y agoI 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.
- w-ll 5y agoBaby 'Cut' carrots or the ones picked very young?
- chihuahua 5y agoBaby cut, which is all the article talks about
- kyleee 5y agowhy are they preferred over the big bag of "normal" carrots at costco?
- chihuahua 5y agoBecause 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.
- not2b 5y agoAs 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".
- david_draco 5y agoIt 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.
- greatgib 5y agoI 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...
- mhb 5y agoPro tip: Put salt on them.