Comments on: Big Carrot tips its hand

By: esuperchicken

esuperchicken — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 22:00:00 +0000

The Flaming Carrot is not amused.

By: Sean McLaughlin

Sean McLaughlin — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 13:37:00 +0000

More like an urban adolescent wet dream

By: niktemadur

niktemadur — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 06:09:00 +0000

These carrots have a certain… Wessonality.

Also a whiff of Orwell, although applied to capitalism instead of socialism.
All vegetables are equal, but some vegetables are more equal than others.

After applauding the current campaign of squeezing out mid-western family farms in favor of Monsanto, the carrots dug into their chateaubriands served with Chateau Lafite Rothschild, while cheerfully discussing how to best smoke out the reds in our beds and how FDR is a menace to freedom, while this intriguing Hitler fellow seems to be promisingly pro-corporations.

By: Deidzoeb

Deidzoeb — Sun, 21 Oct 2012 09:36:00 +0000

I hate all this east side/west side beefing, when it’s not in a stew. At first glance, the seated carrots appear to be clapping. Actually throwing signs.

By: Boundegar

Boundegar — Sun, 21 Oct 2012 01:40:00 +0000

I think that was an urban legend. I heard it too, but it was Mazola.

By: Ronald Pottol

Ronald Pottol — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 22:57:00 +0000

Also, some fat enhances fat soluble nutrient absorption.

By: Halloween_Jack

Halloween_Jack — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 21:10:00 +0000

I can’t read or hear a mention of Wesson oil without thinking of a late-adolescent discovery that “Wesson oil parties” were apparently a thing; they allegedly involved a big plastic tarp, about two quarts or so of liquid cooking oil, and some open-minded folk who were very comfortable with each other. Carrots, of course, would have make the whole thing even kinkier.

By: Kaneda Jones

Kaneda Jones — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 20:52:00 +0000

I see they progressed to quite the dapper civilization

http://www.thiel-a-vision.com/?p=6237

By: Glen Able

Glen Able — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 17:24:00 +0000

I see George Osborne on the right there is enjoying the joke that the PM is telling.

By: LightningRose

LightningRose — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 17:01:00 +0000

Just to add to your comment, products like Crisco shortening are the classic hydrogenated vegetable oils.

By: rattypilgrim

rattypilgrim — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 16:41:00 +0000

How strange that an advertisement even acknowledges the existence of “poor folks” even though 1936 was in the middle of the las Great Depression.

By: princessalex

princessalex — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 16:29:00 +0000

I think you have your info confused. These are vegetable oils, nothing hydrogenated about it. According to the WikiPedia link, “Hydrogenation converts liquid vegetable oils into solid or semi-solid fats, such as those present in margarine.” Wesson oils are simply monounsaturated and polyunsaturated oils.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogenation#In_the_food_industry

By: cjporkchop

cjporkchop — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 16:12:00 +0000

Fat carries flavor and salt enhances flavor. Adding salt and a little oil would indeed punch up the flavor of vegetables.

Of course, I’d go for roasting carrots rather than boiling or steaming. That removes some of the water, concentrating the flavor a bit, plus browning from the Maillard reaction would make it extra delicious.

By: Mick Hamblen

Mick Hamblen — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 15:00:00 +0000

there is nothing wrong with quality fats like beef tallow, lard or coconut oil it’s when you use hydrogenated crap like Wesson is when you go wrong.

By: welcomeabored

welcomeabored — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 14:58:00 +0000

Their advertising tactics have since changed from offense to defense. Today, Wesson oil wants us to know that their product contains no trans fats. It won’t be complicit in raising your cholesterol levels. That odd taste in our food is the constant presence of’ Essence of Risk Management.’

http://www.wessonoil.com/healthytips.jsp

By: Boundegar

Boundegar — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 14:08:00 +0000

There’s a part where he says that 47% of all vegetables contain no vitamins, and are a kind of junk food.