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A carrot is NOT a suitable vegetable

213 replies

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?

OP posts:
foxlover47 · 21/10/2023 22:44

Carrot porn 🙈😅

SpongeBobSquarePantaloons · 21/10/2023 22:45

bark bark

tolerable · 21/10/2023 22:46

hahahahahaha...! How very could you! Carrot shaming has been outlawed in this fine land since the 1600s.Your new age health bound husband has a right to insert whatever he likes(into his diet) without you providing a perverse narrative and condemnation.
Presuming predesseor crisps wasnt wotsits.
pick your fights.
grating carrots is probli excersise.

Blarn · 21/10/2023 22:49

Yabu. I sit down of an evening and work my way through ahead of cauliflower.

Wolfen · 21/10/2023 22:49

The worst thing about this is he's eating whole raw carrots while watching tv. How can you hear the tv?? The noise would make me want to hurl the carrot across the room.

FannyCann · 21/10/2023 22:49

Lucky you weren't in charge of the war time diet propaganda machine OP. We'd never have won the war.

Bubblesoffun · 21/10/2023 22:50

NeverDropYourMooncup · 21/10/2023 21:56

What you want is a turnip.

😂

IDontLoveTheWayYouLie · 21/10/2023 22:51

Oh, not those pesky carrots!! How dare he?!

TinChristmas · 21/10/2023 22:51

Yeh, crisps are so much better for you than a carrot, yoir mum is right.

Didshejustsaythatoutloud · 21/10/2023 22:52

The fact they are phallus-like is an additional Boner, sorry bonus, to you being able to see in the dark. 🏆

IDontLoveTheWayYouLie · 21/10/2023 22:52

TinChristmas · 21/10/2023 22:51

Yeh, crisps are so much better for you than a carrot, yoir mum is right.

😂

JudgeJ · 21/10/2023 22:52

NeverDropYourMooncup · 21/10/2023 21:56

What you want is a turnip.

No, a carrot and a couple of sprouts.

stayathomer · 21/10/2023 22:54

I honestly go a bit mad when people talk about healthy foods, fruit and good fats like they are as bad as junk food. I listened to lectures from people who did slimming world saying they were staying away from avocados, bananas, apples, tinned fish and a range of other foods until they’d lost x amount of weight. They also gave up most foods/ milk that had calcium in them and urged me to do the same when I said I was cutting down on junk food.

JudgeJ · 21/10/2023 22:55

'Phallic shape'?

Unless it was a prize winning carrot you have very low expectations.

Mumtobabyhavoc · 21/10/2023 22:57

JudgeJ · 21/10/2023 22:55

'Phallic shape'?

Unless it was a prize winning carrot you have very low expectations.

😹😹😹

bathrobeandpie · 21/10/2023 22:57

Perhaps that says more about me than it does about him.

PERHAPS?

Startyabastard · 21/10/2023 22:58

Alot of fruit and veg have sugars in, but fruit sugar is a little different than processed white sugar. Also, it depends how much.

quantumbutterfly · 21/10/2023 22:59

Carrots are good for your eyesight, unless you poke yourself in the eye with them. Very dangerous vegetables op , be careful out there.

DiscoBeat · 21/10/2023 23:03

One carrot is ok. Let the man live a little.

FeverBeam · 21/10/2023 23:03

I have murderous thoughts if I'm around anyone who's eating a raw carrot.

The fucking NOISE!

DiscoBeat · 21/10/2023 23:04

PERHAPS?

😆

ImADevYo · 21/10/2023 23:06

You're certainly messed up.

Coka · 21/10/2023 23:15

anyone remember the lady who got pulled up for apparently suggestively eating a potato every day in the office. 😂

PickAChew · 21/10/2023 23:17

They're delicious thinly sliced, deep fried and sprinkled with salt.

Bellie710 · 21/10/2023 23:18

You are nuts, however listening to someone sitting eating a whole carrot would be enough to tip me over the edge I could not sit and watch or listen to that!