Just a regular carrot in a baby sized body

Some people fall into Wikipedia rabbit holes, I fall into Pinterest ones. Tonight, after clicking through from blog to blog to blog, I discovered how baby carrots were born. I haven't ever put much thought into the mini veggie's origin but it turns out, they're just regular old carrots whiddled down to the 2 inch size we all know and love. They were created to reduce waste since funny shaped carrots don't sell well- the knobby, bendy ones were being chucked. To avoid having to throw so many perfectly good, if unusually shaped, carrots away, the rejects were cut down and packaged as babies. Which is all well and good, but they cost so much more! For the same thing! Just smaller.

The USA Today article on the creator of the baby carrot can be found here: http://www.usatoday.com/life/lifestyle/2004-08-11-baby-carrot_x.htm