My Baby Carrot Araby

One last thought about the whole baby carrot vs. big carrot debacle. For years I have always left it up to my imagination to figure out how baby carrots are made. That way I could still hold out hope that they were somehow cultivated by Smurfs and then shipped to the human-world.

Or more likely, maybe the process involves a cool domino-stlye conveyer belt and even robots!!! Think of something in between the UK Honda Accord ad (thanks for the link Zander!) and the mini donut machines they have at state and county fairs.

If we could only be so lucky. It turns out the process is as earthly as processing potatoes into French, I mean Freedom Fries. How disappointing. I guess that's yet another reason why big carrots rule over baby carrots. With big carrots, what you see is what you get, from the carrot cradle to the carrot grave. No room for disillusionment.