A carrot is NOT a suitable vegetable

[MrsFloraPoste]

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?

Shaped like a thingy?

Are you the poster who said a ham sandwich was a treat in your house?

Phallic carrots is now in my top 10 mumsnet posts - thank you OP, I needed that laugh 😂

When I was pregnant I used to feel sick if I didn't eat regularly. I used to sit in meetings at work munching through whole carrots.

Perhaps I was naive but it never once occurred to me that I should cut them up because the shape had "suggestive connotations"!

Yabu.

I only eat phallic shaped veg x

What the fuck?

Has he eaten carrots in front of other women OP? Sounds like he has done this before - sorry. I would eat an entire raw aubergine in front of him whilst maintaining constant eye contact and see how he likes it!

You are of course not being unreasonable

Well he's eating it not sticking it up his arse, he's obviously learning how to incorporate carrots into his daily life so leave the poor fella alone i say.

Christ on a carroty shaped bike!!

I haven't had a sugar mouse in years! My mum used to get them from BHS, and put them in our Christmas stockings, and now I feel all nostalgic.

He is clearly secretly gay. My sympathies op.

Carrots are high in carbs and are as unhealthy as potatoes and other root veg. But you’re a nutter if you think a carrot is phallic and you don’t like him eating foods that shape! Unless he’s simulating fellatio on it then YABU!

He could’ve done carrot sticks or whatever and humous but it’s unsustainable to eat a carrot just as it is that will get tedious

I'm just going to leave This here purely for research purposes of course

But @MrsFloraPoste seems to be suggesting that it is the "satisfaction ' her DH wants .

Are you drunk???

Peak Saturday night mumsnet

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
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Yeah, I'm with your DH

Barking.

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Maybe start with a parsnip....... and expand from there... 😆

But I thought peas were “literal bombs of sugar”?

(Or was that grapes? I can’t keep up with MN food batshittery)

Potatoes and root veg are not bloody unhealthy, unless you deep fry them.

If my DP commented about something I'm eating being phallic I'd think he was childish and would find it annoying to be quite honest. It's hardly high calibre chat for a couple of adults of an evening IMO, but each household to their own!

A carrot is a far better choice than crisps so good for your DP if he wants to sit and eat one. I'd just not comment at all on what someone else is eating, particularly someone dieting.

Unless there’s a backstory re the sexual issues, yep YABU.

Unhealthy? Not remotely.

https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/foods/carrots

Are you barking?

Yes. Yes you are.

Are you right about the sugar thing, well yes to a point but there is less carbs in a carrot than a bag of crisps, its heart healthier and cheaper too. However, if you are low carbing, cucumber sticks would be better. Although obviously from the MN point of view, him walking in deep throating a cucumber and you posting your reaction on here, would be fucking hilarious!