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      Canned veggies are cheap and great for mixing into a pot of other stuff. For a really cheap meal, toss a can of veggies into a pot of ramen. Ma fairly filling meal that hits multiple food groups yet it only costs about a dollar. I imagine most people buying canned carrots are doing so for cooking with

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          Yeah, I grab a cup of frozen mixed vegetables to go with the ramen, balances out the meal.

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          I think its about the same? I haven’t looked too hard and typically purchase based on what I’m intending to do with the veggies, but I do like to keep a few cans of veggies in the cupboards for a rainy day (or more accurately for when the whole family is sick and none of us have the energy to go to the store, which happens at least once every winter thanks to having young kids)

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            If it actually is about the same I 100% recommend frozen over canned. Same applications (stews etc) because they’re also mushy when thawed, but they’re fresher, so they aren’t as gray and sad, aren’t as salty, have more of a taste and more vitamins survive. Only cans I buy are legumes and tomatoes.

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              Yeah I primarily buy frozen for that purpose and observe better texture from it, but I’ve got more cupboard space than fridge space, so keeping some cans for when I’m out of everything else has been good

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    Holy shitposts.

    In my childhood I had yellow skin (Carotenemia) from overdosing on carotene from my idiot mom’s woo diets. Macrobiotic diet with a shitload of pumpkin and carrots almost everyday. I won’t eat pumpkin even 45 years later.

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      I had a bit of an orange complexion, only for a very short while, however in the other sort of way.
      I just really liked carrots, and whenever I’d see carrots I’d munch on them. For a while in my childhood it would be normal to see me just eating carrots throughout a Summer.

      Once my mum noticed they were very quickly cut out, then later I just understood the cool orange skin was not good and I shouldn’t have that many carrots. Life is unfair sometimes.

      I cannot stress this enough: it was a lot of carrots.

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        Thanks for the wonderful anecdote! “Hey look Joe, kid & carrot again I told you about”.

        I still like carrots now and then, mostly as an ingredient, and sometimes just raw.

        My mom did a good job making everything taste disgusting, certainly pumpkin and Japanese seaweeds cooked in too much salt. I remember she promised us to make fries once. My sister and me very happy, couldn’t believe it as we where not allowed to eat nightshade plants…macrobiotic diet forbids, so that evening we had…pumpkin fries, we both crying. Disgustingly made btw and just some tamari and gomasio (more salt) for sauce.

        We were into shoplifting not much later.

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      Were you or your mom overweight or there was some kind of medical issue that made her force this diet on you?

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        No, she was just into that esoteric spiritual I tjing and tarot bullshit, lateron Rudolf Steiner, homeopathic and faith healers shit. In the ‘70s this was a fad diet here in the Netherlands. She was very, very violent as well. I was pulled out of that when school began to notice the bruises, bad health and child protection services was notified. She didn’t have a good upbringing though, but I didn’t pass it onto my son. I don’t hate her but she is a total idiot.

        We were underfed, anyhow macrobiotic diet is notorious for not getting the nutrients you need. We where skinny, yellow, itchy, hungry, getting too much salt and a diet without much variety. “Oh your behaviour is to much yang right now…I need to get you on salad for a couple of weeks till I get you balanced”.

        I am still seeing a shrink for that shit…

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    Almost 30 years ago, when I worked in retail, there was a couple whose kids were orange because of this.

    The parents were pretty open about intentionally feeding large amounts of that kind of stuff to their kids and not concerned at all about the ramifications of having unnaturally orange children. They’d clear the shelves of all the carrot, sweet potato, and pumpkin baby foods when the kids were young and then later on they did the same with produce and canned stuff like canned carrots, pumpkin pie stuff, etc.

    They never explained why they did it. I suspect there was a degree of mental illness in them both, though.

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    Does this mean RFK Jr has been drinking creosote?

    Probably wouldn’t be the weirdest thing he’s ingested, either…

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      Biggest bag of carrots for like 5 bucks. Baby carrots have increased in price a lot though. They’re like twice as expensive as they used to be.

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        Bag? I think that’s where you went wrong. You gotta buy them by the kilo, not prepackaged.

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          In American stores the big bulk carrots come in a huge bag and those are the cheapest.

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          In the US, depending on the store carrots might be sold in bunches placed into loose unsealed plastic bags (and priced by weight) I can’t find any photos of this practice in a quick search, but I suspect its more for branding reasons than anything

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    As someone who’s been tomatomaxxing for about two decades now, I can report a tan that would make me fit right in on a vampire meetup.

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        Damn, what a question.

        Garlic genuinely tastes quite pungent to me, as if you created a new taste between sour and bitter and really stinky sweat. I can’t even put one clove into my tomato sauce or it’ll taste of nothing but that pungent taste to me.
        I do get a hint of what I assume garlic tastes like to most people, so sometimes I’ll put in like half a pinch of garlic powder, but that’s it.

        So far, I assumed that was a genetic thing, but maybe I am just a vampire.

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    The Big Carrot won’t tell you this but carrots are naturally grayish. Farmers feed them a substance called astaxanthin to give them the deep orange color that is valued by consumers.

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      I’ve grown carrots. They aren’t gray. I guess they could amend the soil to make them a little more orange. But having seen both it isn’t by much.

      Yeah, farmers feeding plants substances is weird. Did you know they add substances like uria and ammonia to make pumpkins larger. In fact they use that shit everywhere. They also use chemicals that straight up turn the soil alkaline.

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      apples are naturally toxic to people and the big apple injects corn syrup to save our consumerist souls