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?

I really have read it all on here now

To get them out you just give them a bit of a pull and yank it out don't you? Just pull the heads a bit

My Ds once won a fancy dress competition dressed as a carrot. A Christmas carrot at that. < misses point>

Carrot crisps - best of both worlds.

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.

They have a bit of natural sugar in but are not high in sugar- the majority of most vegetables and fruits is water. Fruit are great to eat on a diet too- especially lower calorie ones.

What matters is the overall amount of calories eaten in the day/week. Eating low energy density foods such as fruit and veg helps people stick to the reduced calories necessary for weight loss.

I eat whole carrots and know many who do (in my home country though) . If you eat the outside you are left with lovely sweet middle at the end.
It's a good snack. Portable, durable, no mess.

If you grate carrot, apple and mix it with bit of sugar and lemon juice it's a 5*snack

You seem to have the mental age of a teenage boy. I manage to eat carrots and bananas without thinking about a penis 😂😅🤣

I once saw someone eat a whole raw cucumber, that would have tipped you over the edge OP 😂

This made me laugh out loud

Better to buy carrots or any other fruit/veg of choice if you're going to eat them because they taste ok, than buy masses of leaves or celery and it just goes off in the fridge because you don't touch it because it's grim, and end up still eating crisps instead. I mean, crisps are ok too in small doses as part of a balanced or, if required, calorie controlled diet. That's the important bit.

You won't get any doctor or dietician telling someone to avoid carrots on a diet, that's for sure, and probably wouldn't tell anyone to avoid any low cal fruit and veg. Carrot is still low calorie at 41 cals per 100g.

At least it wasn't a cucumber?

Yup. You're bonkers.

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.

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

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Did he peel it?

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

Totally mad. This can't be real.

You are mad

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”

Are you a teenage boy @MrsFloraPoste ?

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

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

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