Interesting idea, although I think the slogan (Eat 'Em Like Junk Food) might be so corn that it turns kids off of the product. If you want to reach kids you have to speak their language and whens the last time you heard a 12y.o. say anything like that?
Rebranding Carrots as Junk Food
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While I agree with you, I notice that I eat disproportionately few carrots than their taste would suggest (they are pretty delicious), and it's mostly because of the inconvenience of cleaning them and their relative unavailability. If I had a vending machine with carrots, I'd definitely choose them over the other snacks most of the time.
It's not necessary to go over the top with cleaning carrots. Just run them under some water and wipe off any excess dirt with some paper towel (or, as I've been guilty of doing, a t-shirt). Definitely don't peel them, plenty of nutrition there.
How much dirt isn't excess?
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#33My favorite bit about carrots is the idea that they'll help your night vision is propaganda from WWII:
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#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's not necessary to go over the top with cleaning carrots. Just run them under some water and wipe off any excess dirt with some paper towel (or, as I've been guilty of doing, a t-shirt). Definitely don't peel them, plenty of nutrition there.
How much dirt isn't excess?
If it bothers your teeth beyond the point of enjoyment.
When I pick carrots from the garden, I just wipe dirt off with my hands and eat them. So delicious.
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#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
While I agree with you, I notice that I eat disproportionately few carrots than their taste would suggest (they are pretty delicious), and it's mostly because of the inconvenience of cleaning them and their relative unavailability. If I had a vending machine with carrots, I'd definitely choose them over the other snacks most of the time.
Is it really that inconvenient to clean a carrot? Just peel it and eat it. I can peel a carrot quicker than most people can even decide what to have at a vending machine.
You're leaving out the bit where you find a knife and a cutting board, and then you wash the knife and the cutting board, and the bit where you throw away all the peel you cut off, and the bit where some of the peel winds up on the floor so you have to bend over and pick it up, and... wait, can't you just buy packaged prepeeled babby carrots anyway? They sell 'em at my local supermarket.
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#37Nice, but it may be more effective to limit advertising of unhealthy food during cartoons and shows targeted directly at children.
No, no it wouldn't. It would be more effective to stop subsidizing unhealthy food. The long-term effects of such legislation are almost guaranteed to be a net-negative because of edge cases. There are already way too many laws. You should always look first at what can be removed, rather than what can be added.
No, what would be effective is if the parents of children stopped letting 'em eat junk food all the fricking time. "Mummy, I want a Snickers". Bad fricking luck, kid, eat your fricking vegetables.
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#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
No, no it wouldn't. It would be more effective to stop subsidizing unhealthy food. The long-term effects of such legislation are almost guaranteed to be a net-negative because of edge cases. There are already way too many laws. You should always look first at what can be removed, rather than what can be added.
No, what would be effective is if the parents of children stopped letting 'em eat junk food all the fricking time. "Mummy, I want a Snickers". Bad fricking luck, kid, eat your fricking vegetables.
No kidding. If parents would do their damn job and not let kids eat junk just because they want it, we wouldn't have an issue.
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#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
No, what would be effective is if the parents of children stopped letting 'em eat junk food all the fricking time. "Mummy, I want a Snickers". Bad fricking luck, kid, eat your fricking vegetables.
No kidding. If parents would do their damn job and not let kids eat junk just because they want it, we wouldn't have an issue.
In fairness, "we" don't have the issue.
It's somebody else's issue, and I refuse to accept any responsibility or worry over the fact that somebody else's kids are fat. I have enough problems of my own, I've got better things to do than accept part-ownership of the easily-soluble problems of others.
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#40Clever idea. I subscribe to the wacky theory that kids prefer junk food to vegetables because it tastes better rather than because they've been brainwashed by evil advertisers, but either way this will provide useful data.
Sugar acts somewhat like a slightly addictive drug, that may cause them to prefer the other foods in addition to the advertising. See http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2235907/?tool=pm...
Or maybe they just prefer 'em because they're sweet and tasty.
C'mon folks, don't you remember being a kid? Sweet food tasted awesome, whether you'd seen an advertisement for it or not. Human beings, and especially children, are hard-wired to find sweets delicious and carrots merely tolerable. This made perfect sense to our prehistorical ancestors, since if they ever did manage to get access to something sweet it would be an excellent source of much-needed calories which should be prioritised.