h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

So, go ahead and have a snack! In other words, since crayons share the property carrots have of leaving color behind when rubbed on paper (mentioned in the original article), they come in many colors (unlike carrots(also mentioned in the original article)), AND they can be used as a convenient snack food, they're worth much more than carrots and should be purchased much more frequently than carrots.

That's very true... carrots are indeed relatively worthless in comparison with the crayon.

The only redeeming quality of a carrot is that it's legendary for improving people's eyesight, but if you give a carrot to a child, he's quite likely to jab it into his eye pointy-end first, which is not, by any stretch of the imagination, good for his eyesight.

Crayons, however... well they're never sharp, are they, because those little built-into-the-box crayon sharpeners are absolute rubbish.

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