Are Baby Carrots Really "Baby" Carrots?

I like baby carrots, they taste really good and they work well as practical healthy snacks. However, I never knew that baby carrots are not actually young carrots. In fact, baby carrots are small pieces of carrots that are chopped and whittled down to look like small carrots. They are peeled and washed, to make them ready to be eaten. Carrots don't always grow in perfect shapes, so the ones that look lumpy, dumpy and ugly just won't sell even if they taste good. Mike Yurosek, a farmer from California, was sick of throwing away tons of imperfectly shaped carrots from his farm. That's when he came up with idea of cutting those ugly carrots into small pieces with a uniform appearance. He came up with this clever idea in 1986. And since then Yursek continued his efforts in brining baby carrots to the shape and taste that they are today. He actually managed to bring those non-selling carrots into baby carrots that would bring more money to his farm than regular carrots do.