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To my total disappointment, baby carrots have totally disappeared from store shelves locally over the past couple of years.  We used to buy the humourosly named Bunny Love brand baby carrots all the time - sweet, delicious and an easy, healthy snack.  I used to go around at the book shop I used to work at offering people some of my Bunny Love.  Everyone enjoyed this (including me) and it was known through out the store that no one could turn down my Bunny Love.  Then the supply of Bunny Love inexplicably started to dwindle, and eventually stopped all together, to be replaced by several different brands of baby-cut carrots - which are not baby carrots at all, but adult carrots, peeled and/or whittled down to look like baby carrots, but lacking the sweetness of actual baby carrots.

Also, during my CPR training it was noted by the paramedic that the the number one choking hazard amongst adults in Canada is the baby carrot.  So maybe Wombat is on to something.  It's easy to perform the Heimlich in these cases though.  (For children it's still ballons, which is almost impossible to save a child from because the exploded part the the balloon that is inhaled totally blocks the ability to perform CPR.  Lesson learned: Do not have balloons around small children.)

[wombat]

Ha!  The evil carrot.  I knew it.  I'll bet no one ever chokes on avocados!

[Hobot]

Ha!  The evil carrot.  I knew it.  I'll bet no one ever chokes on avocados!

Guacamole is the silent killer.

[CortJstr]

I can see why a food item that shares it's name with a porn star could be popular.

I like guacamole but way too many restaurants have started doing that lame tableside preparation thing. Yes I get to say how spicy it should be or how much onion I want but the flavors have no time to mingle so it always ends up tasting like suck.

[Mite]

I had a 5 pound sack of bunny love in my fridge not a week ago. They're plentiful here, at least, but only at the weird farmers market. I can ship you some if you need a hit.

[Hobo Frenzy]

Does zucchini count? I vote for that. Is so good!

I'm confused about all the carrot hate going on. I love carrots. The baby carrots can be eaten right out of the bag and the larger dirty carrots are easily cleaned, pealed and eaten ala Bugs Bunny. Chopped carrots on a salad , cooked carrots and peas, mmmm carrots.

[AlohaDawg]

There are hardly any vegetables I don't like.

Onions are a vegetable. Also I concur with those who define vegetables in the usage context rather than the botanical.

No one has mentioned burdock root or salsify yet? The foodie discussions are not so much fun since Choop stopped coming by.

I like some baby spinach gently wilted with some prosciutto or pancetta and a tiny bit of olive oil and dressed with just the slightest kiss of balsamic vinegar. A whisper of freshly grated parmesan cheese is also good instead of the vinegar (or with it, but that's a lot of competing flavor)

Yummy. This would also be good with broccolini or broccoli rabe, which are really good if you haven't tried them.

[Lister]

My favorite is tomatoes, but those are fruits.  Next: garlic, bell peppers, then onions. I eat one of these things every day, but since they don't seem to be/count as vegetables for this discussion, I have a needlessly complexified answer:

Alone?  Raw?*  Carrots.

In a salad or as part of an italian recipe?  Spinach.  Can't stand it alone, though, not even creamed.




*The dirty parts of my mind continue this, but I shan't indulge their whims in public.

[pmcd9]

My favorite is tomatoes, but those are fruits.

Tomatos are so awesome they are both a fruit and a vegetable.

Deal with it bitches.  Eat Tomatos More Frequently.

~Paul

[theinevitable]

the best vegetable?
basically one that is going away from my body at an angle. like a tangent, and it is never coming back.

[AugustWest]

Terri Schiavo?

[wombat]

I like some baby spinach gently wilted with some prosciutto or pancetta and a tiny bit of olive oil and dressed with just the slightest kiss of balsamic vinegar. A whisper of freshly grated parmesan cheese is also good instead of the vinegar (or with it, but that's a lot of competing flavor)

Can I come live with you?  Please?

Do you really cook burdock root?  This is surely because you are practically in Japan. 

[Hobot]

I can't believe no one is feeling the artichoke love.  However, I agree with those who have expounded upon the deliciousness of baby carrots, and would like to add that celery with peanut butter is also quite good.  It's full of cellulose, you know!

[pmcd9]

I can't believe no one is feeling the artichoke love.  However, I agree with those who have expounded upon the deliciousness of baby carrots, and would like to add that celery with peanut butter is also quite good.  It's full of cellulose, you know!

The artichoke only realizes it's full potential when dipped in butter.  The tomatoe needs no such help to achieve deliciousness.

~Paul

[AugustWest]

The artichoke only realizes it's full potential when dipped in butter.  The tomatoe needs no such help to achieve deliciousness.

~Paul

Au contraire!  Artichoke leaves are delicious with a multitude of sauces (curried mayo, anyone) or on their own.  And artichoke hearts are easily worth the work it takes to reach them.

Know something else I love?  Turnips.  The roots and the greens.