# I thought carrots were supposed to give you good eyesight **URL:** \ **Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\ **Created:** [October 31, 2008, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-thought-carrots-were-supposed-to-give-you-good-eyesight/470425 "2008-10-31T14:07:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2008, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-thought-carrots-were-supposed-to-give-you-good-eyesight/470425/1 "2008-10-31T14:07:26Z")
And yet, I can’t see this [carrot column](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2820/did-mel-blanc-hate-carrots) that went out with the email update this morning. 🆒:o ---
**Author:** ![Gfactor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9de053/32.png) [@Gfactor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gfactor)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2008, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-thought-carrots-were-supposed-to-give-you-good-eyesight/470425/2 "2008-10-31T14:29:55Z")
That’s a staff report by **Rico** , so I’ll move it from Comments on Cecil’s Columns to Comments on Staff Reports. We’re aware of the problem and are working on a fix. Thanks for the heads up. **Gfactor** General Questions Moderator ---
**Author:** ![Rico](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rico/32/3582_2.png) [@Rico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rico)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2008, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-thought-carrots-were-supposed-to-give-you-good-eyesight/470425/3 "2008-11-01T05:34:19Z")
Problem fixed. Column posted. Thanks for the heads up, **friedo**. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2008, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-thought-carrots-were-supposed-to-give-you-good-eyesight/470425/4 "2008-11-01T05:59:10Z")
> [@Rico](#): > > Mel Blanc was the best-known voice actor of the 20th century. What? No love for [Paul Frees](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Frees)? ---
**Author:** ![Rico](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rico/32/3582_2.png) [@Rico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rico)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2008, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-thought-carrots-were-supposed-to-give-you-good-eyesight/470425/5 "2008-11-01T06:35:10Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > What? No love for [Paul Frees](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Frees)? Please note I didn’t have to post a link to Mel Blanc… 😃 I keed, I keed… But ask the average person to name a cartoon voiceover artist, and 95 times out of 100 that person will say “Mel Blanc.” ---
**Author:** ![Threadkiller](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/aca169/32.png) [@Threadkiller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Threadkiller)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2008, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-thought-carrots-were-supposed-to-give-you-good-eyesight/470425/6 "2008-11-01T14:06:49Z")
> [@Rico](#): > > Blanc died in 1989 at age 81; his epitaph reads – you guessed it – “That’s all, folks.” My favorite tribute (to just about anybody, for that matter) was the [‘Speechless’](http://www.animationartwork.com/artwork/sku10019) one for mr. Blanc. ---
**Author:** ![critter42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ba0ec/32.png) [@critter42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/critter42)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2008, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-thought-carrots-were-supposed-to-give-you-good-eyesight/470425/7 "2008-11-03T14:13:08Z")
> [@Threadkiller](#): > > My favorite tribute (to just about anybody, for that matter) was the [‘Speechless’](http://www.animationartwork.com/artwork/sku10019) one for mr. Blanc. I almost got one of the limited editions of the original version (just a plain white background, no stage) - I was in a Warner Brothers store in Ft. Lauderdale in '93 right when it was released. I saw it, and I swear if I wasn’t a newlywed and had all the attendant costs, it would be hanging on my wall right now… ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2008, 10:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-thought-carrots-were-supposed-to-give-you-good-eyesight/470425/8 "2008-11-10T10:47:15Z")
Carrots help you [see the dark.](http://www.explosm.net/comics/1133/) ---
**Author:** ![Hawkins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/278dde/32.png) [@Hawkins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hawkins)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2008, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-thought-carrots-were-supposed-to-give-you-good-eyesight/470425/9 "2008-11-11T04:37:43Z")
If I had to eat carrots to see, I’d be blind. ---
**Author:** ![datasos\_adv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@datasos\_adv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/datasos_adv)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2008, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-thought-carrots-were-supposed-to-give-you-good-eyesight/470425/10 "2008-11-19T07:13:23Z")
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