Carrots for Breakfast?

We went to IHOP for breakfast this morning. Charlie was looking forward to his chocolate chip pancakes until we got there and he saw a picture on the wall of their steak dinner with a side of carrots. This precipitated a broken record request for carrots, never mind that the kid has never willingly eaten a carrot in his life: "I want carrots... I want carrots... I want carrots..." This persisted right up until his food was brought -- I had to tell him he was having chocolate chip carrots and sausage carrots in order for him to eat his pancake and sausage links. This evening at dinner I offered him an actual carrot and he promptly spat it out with the appropriate choking and gagging noises. Behold the power of advertising...