mind = blown

Did you know that everybody's favourite vegetable to snack on is not a baby at all but in fact a grown up. Yes, that's right, my world has been blown apart again as I have learned that baby carrots are not in fact baby's. They don't grow like that, people make them!!!! Unbelievable.

From wikipedia.org:

In North America the term baby carrot is commonly applied to either miniature carrots harvested before their roots develop or adult carrots chopped into smaller pieces. Taking fully grown carrots and chopping them into smaller pieces was the idea of California farmer Mike Yurosek.
Yurosek was unhappy at having to discard as much as 400 tons of carrots a day because of their imperfections, and looked for a way to reclaim what would otherwise be a waste product. He was able to acquire an industrial green bean cutter, which cut his carrots into two lengths, and by placing these lengths into an industrial potato peeler, he created the original baby carrot, branded "Bunny-Luv." In 2006, nearly three-quarters of fresh baby carrots produced in the United States come from Bakersfield, California.

How do ya like them baby carrots.