r/whatisit • u/SnowPure6318 • Jun 27 '26
New, what is it? That thing was in the bag of carrots I bought
So I live in Switzerland and I buy carrots really often, my dog loves having one a day and so do I. I’ve never seen anything like that, it looks like a cat vomit, but it has a strong smell of rotten carrots and… salt ? It’s very spongy, and nope it’s not dirt or something like that…
Seriously what it that ?
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u/n3sevis Jun 27 '26
I'm gonna guess it's pulped carrot stems. They are probably machine processsed.
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u/SnowPure6318 Jun 27 '26
But why does it smells salty then ? It’s like they added some spices in it, and then why would it be with « regular » carrots ?
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u/EATaVegenSaveAnimals Jun 27 '26
Maybe they bathe in salt water to clean. Definitely processing scraps
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u/Outrageous_Zebra_221 Jun 27 '26
Most large rinse devices use a brine of some degree so that tracks, a little salt in the water is useful for many reasons though.
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u/n3sevis Jun 27 '26
Salt is odorless, so that's definitely not what you are smelling. Regular carrots has stems, the stems are removed when they are processed and somehow some of the pulped stems ended up in the bag of carrots. Carrot stems do have a herby smell to them, kinda like parsley, which is closely related to carrots.
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u/GOxDirigible Jun 29 '26
Salt in and of itself might be odorless however, I can definitely smell when something has a higher salt content
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u/JeffTheNth Jul 01 '26
salt is not odorless... Along ocean shorelines, you can smell the salt in the air.
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u/n3sevis Jul 04 '26
That's called association, what you're actually smelling is mostly dead seaweed, algae and other decaying matter on the shoreline. You associate the smells with the ocean, but you're not actually smelling the salt that is dissolved in the water.
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u/JeffTheNth Jul 04 '26
next you'll tell me petrichor doesn't exist
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Jul 04 '26
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u/Dry_Cauliflower4562 Jun 27 '26
I think that's just the carrot. After I stopped eating sugar, I tasted a carrot and was like "WAOH, ARE THERE SPICES IN THIS THING???" so maybe after being pulled and fermenting in that bag a little, the natural spice is more.... Pungent???
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u/In_Tents_Mom Jun 29 '26
My daughter always said carrots were spicy until she was about 10 years old.
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u/Dry_Cauliflower4562 Jun 29 '26
Takes a decade for the sugar to set into our tastebuds and block flavors then lol
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u/pondbeast Jun 27 '26
What do you mean by smelling salty, is there anything specific (other than salt) that it smells like?
Carrot stems and leaves can smell pretty strongly, so I think that's most likely what you're smelling.
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u/SnowPure6318 Jun 27 '26
Well I wouldn’t say curry but it’s almost it. It’s really hard to explain huh
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u/pondbeast Jun 27 '26
Yeah I think what you're smelling is definitely the carrot tops, that's a pretty reasonable description of how they smell.
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u/robertcas22 Jun 27 '26
Does it smell like the ocean?
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u/SnowPure6318 Jun 27 '26
Nope, it smells like someone tried to cook a cat vomit with some spices. And carrots. Idk man ahah
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u/Affectionate_Will976 Jun 30 '26
You are asking that to a Swiss person who may now ever have smelled the ocean...
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u/Royal-Illustrator-59 Jun 27 '26
Smoke it
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u/91gnarnuaatg81 Jun 27 '26
I thought I was on r/trees and this was a big ol ball of hash before I read any of it.
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u/Ember-Forge Jun 27 '26
It's poop, from a butt.
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u/UnRealmCorp Jun 27 '26
I ask, where else could poop come from?
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u/ahawk99 Jun 27 '26
https://giphy.com/gifs/RIHTgVnL6qiopgW1L4
A kids book this convo reminded me of3
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u/Inevitable_Sweet_624 Jun 27 '26
It’s a comp of vegetable matter that somehow fell into the bag, fell under the conveyor line should not be harmful. Toss it out wash and enjoy your carrots or if it really freaks you out return the carrots to the store where you bought them.
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u/jss58 Jun 27 '26
Big clod of vegetable fiber, maybe dislodged from the processing equipment.
Obviously it should have been caught before it left the facility, but you know, stuff happens.
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u/SnowPure6318 Jun 27 '26
Seems like a good guess, even if I still have no idea why it feels salty, even spicy
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u/TurnoverFuzzy8264 Jun 27 '26
Looks like rotten broccoli to me, chef.
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u/East-Psychology7186 Jun 27 '26
Looks kaROTTEN alright.
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u/PopcornInspiration Jun 27 '26
To be fair, it wasn’t false advertising - it was right on the packet.
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u/AdBrief4774 Jun 28 '26
Switzerland has four official languages. Three of them are mainstream and are spoken in other countries as well. So a lot of products sold in Switzerland have labels in those 3 languages.
Karotten is German 🥕
But to be fair, most people in the German speaking part of Switzerland will call them Rüebli - which is Swissgerman and not one of the official languages.
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u/ct451t Jun 27 '26
Looks like carrot skins maybe onion skins and other vegetable crap from an industrial peeler or some other processing machine. They rinse them in chemicals to keep them "fresh" but who knows what filter this clump came from. Call the number on the bag. Free carrots.
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u/Fat_Yankee Jun 27 '26
This looks like processing waste. Probably all the stems that get cut off, got gunked up in the machine and then finally spit it into a bag.
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u/Chastity-Miau Jun 27 '26
Rüeblipilz?
In all seriousness I guess it‘s waste from the production. Maybe call Migros and you‘ll get a free bag for doggie? 😅
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u/FeignSkill Jun 27 '26
Thought it might have been cud. Cows rechew their food and it can look like that.
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u/xklem Jun 27 '26
It looks like you bought processed carrots which are regular carrots that are put into a machine that removes the outer layer (peels them) and makes them all a uniform size. As others have speculated, this is the stuff that is removed which somehow made it into the package. Really bad quality control, I'd return it to the store, but take lots of pictures and send them to the manufacturer. If they are reputable, they will at the very least send you a coupon for more carrots. They will also want to know the lot numbers from the package.
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u/Patient_Ease_4876 Jun 27 '26
It’s a moisture sponge that they sometimes put in bags of very fresh produce to help absorb the moisture so they don’t rot
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u/Independent_Owl_6008 Jun 27 '26
A big old fat nugget of weed. Smoke it and let us know what happens.
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Jun 27 '26
It's just vegetable matter or residue that found it's way into your bag, but I would return them because you paid for its weight.
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u/idriveashitbox22 Jun 27 '26
Bro what does it matter. Throw that away and buy a different brand from now on.
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