How Carrots Became the new Junk Food
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How Carrots Became the new Junk Food
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Re: How Carrots Became the new Junk Food
#2Wonder why that story is dated April 1, 2011 (print version only)
Re: How Carrots Became the new Junk Food
#3Wonder why that story is dated April 1, 2011 (print version only)
If you're implying this may be an extended joke, I'm pretty sure it isn't. I've seen other stories about this in the past couple of months that have nothing to do with April 1. I'm not in any of the test markets though, so I can't vouch that I've seen these personally.
Re: How Carrots Became the new Junk Food
#4I see 'extreme' commercials for baby carrots all the time on local television. They can put all the marketing they want behind baby carrots, there is still one big problem: raw carrots taste like shit. I'd honestly rather go hungry than eat raw carrots, and no amount of cool marketing is going to change that.
Re: How Carrots Became the new Junk Food
#5Wonder why that story is dated April 1, 2011 (print version only)
Here's another article from USA Today, on the same subject, from September 3, 2010.
http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/food/2010-08-29-bab...
Re: How Carrots Became the new Junk Food
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#7My wife won't eat carrots because they make her allergic (cooked ones are fine)... she only gets these reactions since moving here to the US from France.
Since this is a duopoly from the same region (Central CA), perhaps the dropoff in the past few years is due to the carrot quality?
Re: How Carrots Became the new Junk Food
#8Wonder why that story is dated April 1, 2011 (print version only)
If you're implying this may be an extended joke, I'm pretty sure it isn't. I've seen other stories about this in the past couple of months that have nothing to do with April 1. I'm not in any of the test markets though, so I can't vouch that I've seen these personally.
It is not. I live in one of the test markets and the commercials run constantly. One of the commercials features an woman shooting a baby carrot mini-gun at a man while he jumps off a cliff.
Re: How Carrots Became the new Junk Food
#9Wonder why that story is dated April 1, 2011 (print version only)
If you're implying this may be an extended joke, I'm pretty sure it isn't. I've seen other stories about this in the past couple of months that have nothing to do with April 1. I'm not in any of the test markets though, so I can't vouch that I've seen these personally.
> If you're implying this may be an extended joke
No, just intrigued by the article being apparently from the future.
Re: How Carrots Became the new Junk Food
#10I see 'extreme' commercials for baby carrots all the time on local television. They can put all the marketing they want behind baby carrots, there is still one big problem: raw carrots taste like shit. I'd honestly rather go hungry than eat raw carrots, and no amount of cool marketing is going to change that.
Really? I love raw carrots and I know I'm not alone.