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Posted: **Wed Dec 03, 2014 9:30 pm**

The NSG Unofficial Carrot Discussion Thread

This thread is intended as a one-stop-shop for all things carrots: cultivation, husbandry, preparation and consumption.

That being said, I myself grew and harvested around 15 pounds of carrots this past growing season. I had some issues with pests early on (no, not rabbits), but after I ground and applied a bar of Ivory Soap and some garlic bulbs around the perimeter, they grew fairly well. The flavor was on-point, the texture had a good "snap" to it, and they didn't have the "metallic" taste that sometimes accompanies store-bought carrots.

So I ask you, NSG: do you grow carrots? What are some of your favorite ways to prepare them? How do you rank them amongst other vegetables? If you don't grow them, where do you get them?

Posted: **Wed Dec 03, 2014 9:33 pm**

Carrots are good for your eyesight. Go on, stick them in your eye, thinner end first.

Posted: **Wed Dec 03, 2014 9:35 pm**

Digital Planets wrote:Carrots are good for your eyesight.

No doubt. I heard that British fighter pilots in WW2 ate so many carrots that their skin turned orange.

Posted: **Wed Dec 03, 2014 9:43 pm**

The fuck is this?

Posted: **Wed Dec 03, 2014 9:45 pm**

Fuck carrots.

Posted: **Wed Dec 03, 2014 9:46 pm**

Sebastianbourg wrote:The fuck is this?

Carrots.

Posted: **Wed Dec 03, 2014 9:46 pm**

I like beetroot + carrot juice (optionally citric fruits or dark leafy vegetables might be added), carrot cubes + fried garlic with the water used to boil rice (it makes it taste better), and carrot cubes with potato and egg white cubes (optional: adding good quality petit-pois) for a nice mayonnaise dressed salad (after a few hours of refrigeration).

So, we don't have conditions to garden vegetables here, only fruit trees and the occasional medicinal bush. Generations of dogs lived in the yard, that is also a cemetery of them. Not to say how this was originally a very muddy terrain, my deceased grandfather used construction waste to make it fit to house-building, but it ruined irreparably soil qualities.

Posted: **Wed Dec 03, 2014 9:46 pm**

Mashed carrots are a yummy alternative to mashed potatoes.

Posted: **Wed Dec 03, 2014 9:46 pm**

True men only eat meat.

Posted: **Wed Dec 03, 2014 9:46 pm**

West Aurelia wrote:Fuck carrots.

Posted: **Wed Dec 03, 2014 9:48 pm**

Rhodisia wrote:
Sebastianbourg wrote:The fuck is this?

Carrots.

Please spoiler the images; I am a true man and true men are disturbed by the sight of anything that isn't meat.

Posted: **Wed Dec 03, 2014 9:48 pm**

Kincoboh wrote:Mashed carrots are a yummy alternative to mashed potatoes.

I'll have to try that sometime.

Posted: **Wed Dec 03, 2014 9:49 pm**

Kincoboh wrote:Mashed carrots are a yummy alternative to mashed potatoes.

Ewwwwwww, no!

Yam sometimes, Arracacia xanthorrhiza for those who like it. I recommend meat broth instead of dairy to make it savory, though.

Arracacia goes extremely wonderful with shrimp. <3

Posted: **Wed Dec 03, 2014 9:49 pm**

I don't grow carrots, but I do eat store-bought ones. I buy them because they are cheap.

Posted: **Wed Dec 03, 2014 9:49 pm**

Sebastianbourg wrote:Please spoiler the images; I am a true man and true men are disturbed by the site of anything that isn't meat.

Good thing I'm neutrois, then.

Posted: **Wed Dec 03, 2014 9:51 pm**

Did you know that the orange color we associate with carrots only became common as Dutch farmers grew them in favour of the other colours to honour the ruling family of the time, the House of Orange?

Posted: **Wed Dec 03, 2014 9:51 pm**

Degenerate Heart of HetRio wrote:
Sebastianbourg wrote:Please spoiler the images; I am a true man and true men are disturbed by the site of anything that isn't meat.

Good thing I'm neutrois, then.

I was just telling him to spoiler the images but I hope you got the vaguely-funny joke.

Posted: **Wed Dec 03, 2014 9:51 pm**

Carrots are delicious. I can't grow them though because my only outdoor space is a balcony (I mean, it's a big balcony, but I'm shit at keeping potted plants alive). I still like them.

And I found some purple and white ones a few years ago, they were interesting (I roasted them with other veggies, some oil and a few herbs, the purple carrots dyed everything purple).

Posted: **Wed Dec 03, 2014 9:52 pm**

Sebastianbourg wrote:
Rhodisia wrote:Carrots.

Please spoiler the images; I am a true man and true men are disturbed by the site of anything that isn't meat.

True men enjoy vitamin deficiencies and heart disease.

Posted: **Wed Dec 03, 2014 9:52 pm**

Kincoboh wrote:Mashed carrots are a yummy alternative to mashed potatoes.

Huh. Never tried that. I did once have some wonderful sweet-and-sour carrots, though.

Posted: **Wed Dec 03, 2014 9:52 pm**

Trevor Phillip Enterprises wrote:Did you know that the orange color we associate with carrots only became common as Dutch farmers grew them in favour of the other colours to honour the ruling family of the time, the House of Orange?

I wonder why this isn't taught in culinary school nowadays.

Posted: **Wed Dec 03, 2014 9:52 pm**

Carrots are amazing and tasty, but never cook and serve first try. No one like squishy carrots.

Posted: **Wed Dec 03, 2014 9:53 pm**

Randozies wrote:Carrots are amazing and tasty, but never cook and serve first try. No one like squishy carrots.

^this times 100. No discussion, end thread here. We found the answer.

Posted: **Wed Dec 03, 2014 9:53 pm**

Kincoboh wrote:Mashed carrots are a yummy alternative to mashed potatoes.

I'd rather have the mashed potatoes.

Posted: **Wed Dec 03, 2014 9:53 pm**

Sebastianbourg wrote:
Degenerate Heart of HetRio wrote:Good thing I'm neutrois, then.

I was just telling him to spoiler the images but I hope you got the vaguely-funny joke.

Is it related to the PowerPuff Girls?

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Let's talk about carrots.

Let's talk about carrots.