Frazz by Jef Mallett for March 15, 2023

Did you know that there’s no such plant as baby carrots? They just whack regular carrots and toss them into the same gizmo (more or less) that peels potatoes: Rounds them off. Bag ’em up and sell all those broken bits and pieces!

I worked a board job in school and was introduced to that potato peeler early on. The instructions I remember were, “ … load a half a bag … flip the switch … that’s it”.

The bag was 50# of potatoes. I flipped the switch. There was a brown water out flow that turned white then clear. I shut it off. When I opened the top, I watch the last of the water to drain … it was empty. I may have missed the part about shutting down as the brown water became lighter. Five bags later, I may have had 200# pealed.

I’m mad at the QC at the egg factories. One egg you have to bang against a table, the next one you touch and egg innards are everywhere. They really need to talk to the producers.

Not sure how much better carrots are than kids’ snacks…

Oh, like baby humans are all identical.

Baby corn is too cute to eat.

Another all-too-common cartoon stereotype. My siblings and I all loved carrots — and most other vegetables — when we were kids. And we still do!

got nothing for this one.

I think we pretended we didn’t like vegetables because we weren’t supposed to. Like we pretended we didn’t like girls. But also because they were always canned or boiled, when raw or roasted is a lot better. I mean the vegetables, not the girls.

Not certain even a 9-year-old should be eating brown carrots…

You know how the cash-register tapes you get from the grocery store only have enuf space for a really abbreviated description of what you bought? Well, one time, right after checking out, I was glancing down the receipt when I had to burst out laffing. They had listed my package of baby peeled carrots as “1 BAG BABY PEE”.

I agree with her. I would like to see much more consistency in the sizes.