The added color of the carrots is supposed to catch your eye.

I LOVE pickled carrots in the giardiniera mix. Yes, it’s a colorful addition.

I don’t know, but my husband has me add sliced canned/bottled mushrooms to it.

Some of us like the spicy carrots even better than the peppers. I wish there were more of them in the jar! My best guess is something like @WestRiverrat‘s but with a slight difference. What I notice when I can my own green vegetables is that they look a little murky and swampy in the jar. They taste great but don’t look as appetizing as they could. I think carrots keep their shape and color and are added to give the visual impression of freshness.

I think I’ll add some baby carrots to my next batch of garlic pickles to test the theory (and I’m thinking they might be delicious too.)

Found this website saying “We love those canned pickled jalapeno peppers that you buy in the Mexican grocery stores here in California. Actually, we like best the hot carrots that they add to the cans for garnish. They put in about ten peppers for each slice of carrot.” So, garnish? Same as how curled parsley is added to various pasta dishes. A few sources also seem to say that it’s just a classic Mexican condiment, so… tradition. (resists urge to break out into Fiddler’s “Tradition”, because that’s really Russian and not Mexican, so obviously not appropriate).

Because jalapeño nationalism is on the rise, and, as we all know, the carrots are the financial backers of jalapeño nationalism, and in an effort to be more transparent with campaign donations, the leaders of the jalapeño movement have decided to add in a couple carrots to every jar.

What? they put carrots in with jalapenos? Where will it end?! And where the heck did you guys all find tildes for your Ns??!

@ccrow Not sure you can see the carrot on the label near the bottom of La Costeña Jalapeños. That’s the brand we buy in my house.

As far as the tilde it depends on what computer you use? On my iPad I just hod the n and the choices pop up for accent marks and tilde. On my PC I use the control key I think? When I need it I just ask the computer (well I think I have a kitty on my screen that I ask) when I am in Word and it tells me how.

I do the tildes with AutoHotKey. I’ve used that to program my keyboard so that any time I type a space-n-tilde-space it creates: ñ hey presto. Or space-N-tilde-space to create Ñ.

I also do accent marks by typing accent mark-accent mark-accent mark-accent mark-accent mark-accent mark to get: áéíóú (and then delete the characters I don’t want). I can also do äëïöü and âêîôû and àèìòù as well as ÁÉÍÓÚ ÂÊÎÔÛ ÀÈÌÒÙ and ÄËÏÖÜ. I even have shortcuts for æÆ for å and Å, ¥,£, €, ¢, ¶, §, «, » and ±. I almost forgot ø and Ø. I can make more as I need them, but I hardly ever even need most of these.

@CWOTUS Show off.

@Blueroses I used to add Calcium Chloride (Pickle Crisp) to the bottom of the jars to make the peppers stay green and crisp.

Carrots were a colorful addition.

ñ: On a Mac, hold down the option (alt) key and simultaneously hit the “n.” Nothing happens. Then remove fingers from keys and hit the “n” again. Vollà (accent courtesy of control-`

Because they are super YUMMY! I was just looking for a pickled carrot recipe the other day. Might serve them as an appetizer at Thanksgiving.