Horse carrots 🥕 - just for horses?

[canteron]

Seriously I assume if they are ok for horses they are ok for humans.

Do farmers just grow separate fields of horse carrots or are they the supermarket cast offs? There is always a ready supply at the feed merchants.

i have always wondered, is there anyone who actually works in the horse carrot industry? One of life’s mysteries!

 

[cauda equina]

I assume they were grown as human fodder but then rejected as being too big, small, wrong shape or whatever
We eat them, they seem completely fine

 

[Peglo]

They are just smaller, misshapes and less clean but perfectly ok for humans. I assume they just don’t bother putting the effort into getting them ready for consuming like they would for humans as they often have green tops on.

Veg farmers drop them off at my work.

 

[myheartinahoofbeat]

We always eat them ourselves. They taste much better than supermarket ones. My son is paranoid they are not for human consumption but I’ve been eating them for years and they taste like what carrots used to taste like years ago.

 

[Parksmum3]

Some of the nets of carrots in my local feed store look better than the ones in the supermarket

 

[Fire sign]

I always wonder if the way they have been stored could be an issue ? In a barn with mice running all over them ?

 

[nutjob]

I've eaten plenty of them and feel just fine .

 

[Sealine]

I eat them. In appearance they are exactly the same as supermarket carrots but a fraction of the price. Sometimes I find they are very large or very small but they all taste the same.

 

[SEL]

They're just the wonky, over sized ones aren't they? We've always eaten them

 

[cold_feet]

I always wonder if the way they have been stored could be an issue ? In a barn with mice running all over them ?

Peel them if you are worried about that.

 

[tda]

My mum often used to nip out and get a few carrots out of the bag for Sunday dinner

 

[Mrs B]

I always wonder if the way they have been stored could be an issue ? In a barn with mice running all over them ?

Well, I always figure that it they've been growing in the earth, they've already had 50 shades of excrement of one sort or another on them, so ...

 

[Dave's Mam]

Well, I always figure that it they've been growing in the earth, they've already had 50 shades of excrement of one sort or another on them, so ...

Exactly.
Peeled & boiled, I have always nicked a few carrots from Dave when he gets a big bag.

 

[Pearlsacarolsinger]

I always wonder if the way they have been stored could be an issue ? In a barn with mice running all over them ?

Wash them before you eat them! They will be fine.

 

[94lunagem]

Wash them before you eat them! They will ve fine.

I’d never really thought about this but I regularly used to steal one straight out the net unwashed. It never killed me off!

 

[Hackback]

I also think they taste better than supermarket bought ones. A bit odd as I know they come from the same place. I pick mine up from a big carrot producer near us - Poskitts - you drive into their car park and there's a little shed they fill with nets of pony carrots for you to collect yourself and pay in the office. They're all washed just like the supermarket ones. A lot are weird shapes (there's a fair few two legs and a dangly bit) but not all. But Poskitts supply to lots of local supermarkets too and I can't believe they save the best tasting ones for the ponies. Maybe it's to do with the bagging/storage?

 

[silv]

They're just the wonky, over sized ones aren't they? We've always eaten them

this, just the second rate ones that people don't want to buy

 

[Flowerofthefen]

The carrots I get from the feed store are absolutely huge!! Guessing they don't meet the supermarkets measurements!

 

[Equi]

Some of the nets of carrots in my local feed store look better than the ones in the supermarket

Same! And £5 a huge bag! Would do forever. But I don’t like carrot

 

[myheartinahoofbeat]

My mum often used to nip out and get a few carrots out of the bag for Sunday dinner

This is exactly what I do now

 

[Sanversera]

Been eating horse carrots for over fifty years

 

[WuzzBred]

If cooked then the temperature will kill off any bacteria anyway and tbh most supermarkets don’t keep things how you would expect anyway. Warehouses or any kind also have some sort of vermin problem. Same a a selection of restaurants

 

[WuzzBred]

Same! And £5 a huge bag! Would do forever. But I don’t like carrot

Thay makes me feel very very old. I can remember a net of carrots being £1.50 and Apples £2.50

 

[honetpot]

Stock feed carrots and potatoes are safe for human consumption, they have just failed what ever standard the buyer expects. When my mum and step dad were hard up the virtually lived on stock feed, the potatoes were sprayed with veg dye purple so the could not be resold. They had been grown to make crisps but failed the starch test, and are sold by the lorry load, sometimes you can get a truck load from the wash plant where they are sorted.

 

[honetpot]

Same! And £5 a huge bag! Would do forever. But I don’t like carrot

£5? Make sure you know the weight, sometimes the loss leaders in the supermarkets are cheaper per kg than the orange nets.

 

[Equi]

£5? Make sure you know the weight, sometimes the loss leaders in the supermarkets are cheaper per kg than the orange nets.

This is from a farm shop, it’s a burlap sack full. I wouldn’t want to estimate weight but it’s hefty lol you even get a few potatoes for good measure, just need some gravy and you have a dinner

 

[scats]

it never fails to make me laugh when I find a rude looking carrot. I really do need to grow up

 

[Irish-Only]

 

[Irish-Only]

Some plonker had to post pics of carrots.