# half remembered psychobabble **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 4, 2001, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/half-remembered-psychobabble/71240 "2001-07-04T19:25:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![flano1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f14d63/32.png) [@flano1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flano1)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2001, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/half-remembered-psychobabble/71240/1 "2001-07-04T19:25:22Z")
help! i have vague memories of a quiz involving several questions that ended with:" what’s your favorite vegetable? ". invariably the questionee answered with the same vegetable- carrot, my faulty recall tells me. i just got to know the questions leading to the carrot… ---
**Author:** ![Catfood\_Purrito](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Catfood\_Purrito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catfood_Purrito)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2001, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/half-remembered-psychobabble/71240/2 "2001-07-04T20:54:29Z")
I think I know what you’re referring to, it goes something like this: What’s three plus three? What’s two plus four? What’s five plus one? Name a vegetable. Most people will say carrot. However, I have no idea if this is attributable to the questions preceding, or if carrot is just really popular. I would tend to think it’s the latter. I, however, answered peas when first asked. ---
**Author:** ![alice\_in\_wonderland](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alice_in_wonderland/32/176_2.png) [@alice\_in\_wonderland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alice_in_wonderland)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2001, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/half-remembered-psychobabble/71240/3 "2001-07-04T21:29:10Z")
Carrot is just really popular - at least according to my Psyc 205 prof, oh so many years ago.