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Carrots? Really?

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April 15, 2011

No, it’s not a joke: Since last fall, baby carrots have been marketed like junk food. Will kids fall for it? Probably not, but you’ve got to give the farmers and ad execs crunchy points for trying. (The hilarious promotional website alone is worth a bag of bunny food.) And of course, just in time for Easter comes the movie tie-in, an animated kiddie flick titled "Hop."

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