Legion Troll
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They are a big fat lie sold to us in convenient plastic packaging, parading around grocery stores as if farmers can grow perfectly-rounded miniature carrots in mass amounts.
We’re here to open your eyes. Most baby carrots — those smooth, irresistible tricksters — are actually, 100 percent made of:
That’s right: Normal carrots.
Despite their adorable name, baby carrots are actually whole, imperfect, craggy-looking carrots that are sliced into smaller pieces, sculpted into rounded sticks, washed and packaged for our snacking convenience.
baby carrots were originally one farmer’s ploy to sell more carrots. Mike Yurosek, a California carrot farmer, invented baby carrots in 1986 because most full-grown carrots were too ugly to sell.
Back in the ‘80s, supermarkets would only purchase the prettiest looking carrots, forcing farmers to turn the imperfect ones into carrot juice or animal feed. Due to the lack of demand, most of them were simply thrown away.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/baby-carrots-are-liars_us_570d98cce4b03d8b7b9ec7f4?cps=gravity_5059_2650807422513739626
We’re here to open your eyes. Most baby carrots — those smooth, irresistible tricksters — are actually, 100 percent made of:
That’s right: Normal carrots.
Despite their adorable name, baby carrots are actually whole, imperfect, craggy-looking carrots that are sliced into smaller pieces, sculpted into rounded sticks, washed and packaged for our snacking convenience.
baby carrots were originally one farmer’s ploy to sell more carrots. Mike Yurosek, a California carrot farmer, invented baby carrots in 1986 because most full-grown carrots were too ugly to sell.
Back in the ‘80s, supermarkets would only purchase the prettiest looking carrots, forcing farmers to turn the imperfect ones into carrot juice or animal feed. Due to the lack of demand, most of them were simply thrown away.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/baby-carrots-are-liars_us_570d98cce4b03d8b7b9ec7f4?cps=gravity_5059_2650807422513739626
