Good for the eyes - bad for the mouth

I bought a 2lb bag of carrots recently. I go through about one of them a week. Last 2 times I bought them from a different store than normal, and I don't like those brands. You'd think a carrot is a carrot - nope. Most recent ones I bought from Walmart taste like there is cleaning product still on them.

Now I've eaten a lot of nasty things (sometimes because I'm being paid to). But I could only force down 3 baby carrots. I'd return them, but Walmart recently adopted a policy that they won't take food back of any kind (we've been rejected in the past. Imagine how we felt - being rejected by Walmart...It's a new low.)

So now I need some uses for several dozen soapy baby carrots:

.22 rifle practice
Marksman skeet shooting
Slingshot ammo
Rabbit hunting
Save them for when our future child starts to use foul language

"Don't make us wash your mouth out with carrots!"
"Noooo, not the carrots!"

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Fartlek

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Happy Halloween!

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