On Mar 28, 8:53*pm, Mark Thorson > wrote:
> Sqwertz wrote:
>
> > Steve Pope > wrote:
>
> > > Finally, someone else who considers those baby carrots icky.
>
> > Nothing icky about them. *They're just big carrots, whittled down
> > into smaller ones. *Especially after they cook, they're exactly the
> > same.
>
> No, that's not how baby carrots are made. *They are
> grown from the same seed used for regular carrots,
> but they are planted closer together and harvested
> earlier. *I learned that from an ag program which
> was named "Voice of Agriculture" or "California Farm
> Bureau Report" before it was renamed "California
> Country". *They got rid of the old guy who was the MC
> and certain segments that were too "technical",
> mostly dealing with the birth of calves, which seems
> to be the favorite activity that farmers use to
> gross out city slickers. *Now it's mostly focussed
> on artisan this and that.

The things most of us call baby carrots are not those you described.
Cali ag folks want people to stay confused as they make a lot of money
from baby cut carrots.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_Carrots
>
--Bryan