And pulling a carrot from the dirt or plucking a ripe tomato that grew from next-to-nothing?
If I want a carrot, I just go out to the garden and get a carrot.
He has even enlisted a mentor at work to wield a carrot and stick.
It was the first time Jordan included himself as a carrot to close a team sponsorship deal.
Diplomatic wiles (and her beloved cigarettes) apart, Ms Del Ponte also carries a carrot and a stick.
As a carrot, more money will be promised to the most disabled people once savings flow in.
Maggi is trying to alleviate these concerns with a carrot and a stick.
Is he using this referendum promise as a carrot for the British electorate to vote the Tories back in?
Taxation policy is then a carrot and stick approach to push things along.
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The capital banked abroad needs a carrot to come home tax free just so long as companies agree to spend it here.
So when it comes to banishing the bags, it seems opinion is divided on whether a carrot or stick approach works best.
For the track Vegetables, session musicians harmonised on various foods of the earth, including a carrot munched on by a passing Paul McCartney.
The Obama administration and Congress established a carrot and stick approach to moving doctors and hospitals into the 21st Century of a paperless society.
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As a main course, I would suggest grilled filet mignon (or venison medallions if you can find them), accompanied by a carrot and chestnut gratin.
Sean Reilly, of the Louisiana Recovery Authority, said last month that some residents would get an offer of money to relocate: a carrot, as well as a stick.
It is a carrot and stick approach, with reduced duty for drivers using renewable fuels, and a challenging target for oil companies to increase the amount they sell.
The result: a carrot bomb that tastes of all sorts of rich oils and creams, except that the only two ingredients, outside of that alkali, are carrots and butter.
Such a plan also gives parents an unobtrusive way to check on their student's academic progress throughout the year--and a carrot is more effective than a stick when urging better performance.
It is not uncommon to encounter a girl in a muumuu singing into a carrot, a Rastafarian grooving on the sidewalk or a pigtailed granny cruising around on a low-rider bike.
They can range in size from a lima bean to a carrot stick and have a rubbery consistency, causing a squeaking sensation on the teeth when chewed fresh from the factory.
"This is the first time the focus has been on education and awareness and redirection to legal and authorized services and not on punitive measures or a carrot-and-stick approach, " she said.
He would sit next to me as I chopped, eyes fixed firmly on the floor, waiting for my knife work to prove clumsy enough for a carrot or tomato to drop.
Cruise could use taxes as a carrot or stick.
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But Britain's prime minister, Gordon Brown, has also offered a carrot, a big package of aid to be provided to the deeply impoverished land if its rulers make serious moves towards democracy.
The British and American governments already dangle a carrot in front of financial havens by offering to share with them the proceeds of any criminal assets they seize with those countries' help.
However in a subsequent statement Theresa Villiers portrayed what she'd said as more of a carrot dangled in front of Stormont noses, arguing the economic package she was talking about was extra cash, not assistance already agreed.
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