Thanks for the wonderful anecdote! "Hey look Joe, kid & carrot again I told you about".

I still like carrots now and then, mostly as an ingredient, and sometimes just raw.

My mom did a good job making everything taste disgusting, certainly pumpkin and Japanese seaweeds cooked in too much salt. I remember she promised us to make fries once. My sister and me very happy, couldn't believe it as we where not allowed to eat nightshade plants...macrobiotic diet forbids, so that evening we had...pumpkin fries, we both crying. Disgustingly made btw and just some tamari and gomasio (more salt) for sauce.

We were into shoplifting not much later.