The Carrot and the Stick

The other night my flat mate and I went to our local, 24 hour, halal convience store to pick up a few cans of Red Bull to help us get those report card comments finished.
We go to the counter to make our purchases and the cashier is snacking on a carrot.
I notice, but say nothing & think nothing of it until he tells us we need to buy more items to use a debit card. I quickly scan the store for additional items and say,"I need a snack." At which point, the cashier reaches behind the counter to offer me, a bag of the raw, unpeeled (and probably unwashed) carrots that he's been chomping on! Now these weren't the baby carrots in a little bag that we're all used to as snack food. These were whole, large, fully grown, need-to-be-chopped-into-slices-or-sticks, sized carrots.
I decline the healthy snack and opt for a Snickers.