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A carrot is NOT a suitable vegetable

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MrsFloraPoste · 21/10/2023 21:54

Please settle an argument for me.

DH and I are both trying to improve our diets on the run up to Christmas, cutting down on booze, making food swaps etc.

This evening he has sat down in front of the television with a carrot instead of a bag of crisps. I know, I should be praising him right?

It’s just that I can’t forget my mother telling me that carrots are high in sugar and therefore not a diet food.
They also have suggestive connotations due to their phallic shape and I think if he is going to insist upon eating carrots he could at least cut them up so that they resemble something less crude.

He’s told me I’m barking mad.

But am I?

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PyongyangKipperbang · 23/10/2023 02:40

A thing I saw done by a colleague, and I wish I could claim I did this, was when we worked in the sales office of a comms company. It really was like a Carry On film at times, it was pathetic.... comments on clothes, hair blah blah. This was back in the 90's when it was officially not ok but unofficially just ignored as the bosses were worse if anything. But anyone who has spent any time in the offices of sales MEN will know what they can be like, its Egotestical.

She was eating a banana and one of them said something suitably Sid Jamesesque and she said "Wow, things have really tanked since X dumped you if you are getting off on me eating a piece of fruit". All the women were howling and all the men suddenly decided they needed a cigarette.....was so funny! Funnier because X had left him as he had been shagging the telemarketing manager, and she left him too!

Candleyankee · 23/10/2023 02:34

OP will be making a new thread soon

‘AIBU to think my DH is gay? He only eats phallic shaped foods’

Banana Eating GIF
Candleyankee · 23/10/2023 02:33

I am assuming he isn’t sat deep throating the carrot on the sofa?

Itsgottobeme · 23/10/2023 02:04

your mother is steeped in diet mentaility bullshit. where she got told by slimming world that a cut up banana was worse for her than a whole one and believed it.
fruit and vegetables are fine.
the sugar police are the only problems with the sugar and vegetable and fruit.

HeckyPeck · 22/10/2023 17:17

0ElectronBlue0 · 22/10/2023 11:50

Ahhh just like the one where a full English breakfast was healthier than a banana. Happy days.

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🤣 That one was mad!

IHopeYouStepOnALegPiece · 22/10/2023 17:03

MrsFloraPoste · 22/10/2023 10:19

Gosh there are a lot of interesting responses on here. I promise I’m not a troll!

I’m glad some posters have agreed that carrots are high in sugar. FWIW my mother also said people on diets shouldn’t eat fruit.

I am not the only one who thinks eating a whole carrot is unnecessarily suggestive though am I?
When I was in my twenties I made the unfortunate error of consuming a banana in an open plan office. I just don’t know how others do it so shamelessly.

Comments about aubergines (or eggplants) are quite frankly just silly. Nobody eats a whole raw aubergine.

Nah you’re right, I wouldn’t eat a whole raw aubergine. I’d eat a dick though.

0ElectronBlue0 · 22/10/2023 14:30

jc12689 · 22/10/2023 12:40

When I was in my twenties I made the unfortunate error of consuming a banana in an open plan office.

Did you work in an office with Sid James and Bernard Bresslaw?

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Phwoar

ginandtonicwithlimes · 22/10/2023 13:40

Thedm · 22/10/2023 13:07

Well, it will be if you habitually eat crisps instead of carrots!

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Plenty of carrot in the roast dinner today!

AirFryerFrequentFlyer · 22/10/2023 13:09

You obviously get the lunatic gene from your disordered eating mother. Did she die of scurvy?

Thedm · 22/10/2023 13:07

ginandtonicwithlimes · 22/10/2023 12:59

Life is too short to eat a carrot instead of crisps.

Well, it will be if you habitually eat crisps instead of carrots!

ginandtonicwithlimes · 22/10/2023 12:59

Life is too short to eat a carrot instead of crisps.

jc12689 · 22/10/2023 12:40

When I was in my twenties I made the unfortunate error of consuming a banana in an open plan office.

Did you work in an office with Sid James and Bernard Bresslaw?

HolidayAddict23 · 22/10/2023 12:06

Wtf? You need help!

0ElectronBlue0 · 22/10/2023 11:50

FeverBeam · 22/10/2023 01:48

<fondly remembers thread where someone said M&Ms were healthier than potatoes>

Ahhh just like the one where a full English breakfast was healthier than a banana. Happy days.

ThirtyThrillionThreeTrees · 22/10/2023 11:30

If you are not a troll, you are beyond help.

Thebigblueballoon · 22/10/2023 11:27

Good lord. You need to shield yourself from all those evil sexy carrots, OP.

FebruaryOnMyMind · 22/10/2023 11:23

Are you a teenage boy @MrsFloraPoste ?

Miriam101 · 22/10/2023 11:22

i cannot believe you are for real OP. I do not know how anyone over the age of of 15 could could think that eating a banana was “suggestive”

BitofaStramash · 22/10/2023 11:21

You are mad

Burnoutwhat · 22/10/2023 11:20

Totally mad. This can't be real.

Scalottia · 22/10/2023 11:18

Fucking hell OP, with all due respect - get a life.

maddiemookins16mum · 22/10/2023 11:16

Did he peel it?

Hedgehogtunnel · 22/10/2023 11:06

🍆🍌🥒🥕🍑🍇

DRS1970 · 22/10/2023 11:04

Good job he didn't decide to eat a cucumber - due to the phallic connotations...

AdoraBell · 22/10/2023 10:59

Your DM is being reasonable about the diet food and YABU about the carrot being crude. Not everyone thinks everything cylindrical is a phallic symbol.

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