A clip of Millie Bobby Brown declaring her love for 'unwashed carrots' has gone viral, with people baffled by her take that 'the dirtier the better'

• "Stranger Things" star Millie Bobby Brown shared her passion for carrots in a recent interview.
• A clip of her fondness for them, declaring "the dirtier the better," blew up online.

Millie Bobby Brown became the talk of TikTok after the true extent of her passion for carrots, especially dirty ones, emerged in a video interview.

On September 22, the British media outlet UNILAD began sharing a series of clips of their interview with Brown to TikTok, taken from an 11-minute-long conversation with the actor that was posted to YouTube that day.

While the longer version reached just 41,000 viewers, shorter segments of the interview racked up millions of views apiece on UNILAD's official TikTok, but by far the most popular featured Brown's enthusiasm for the orange vegetable.

The clip, which received 8.3 million views, showed Brown munching on a carrot as she analyzed various versions of the vegetable UNILAD had provided her. She dismissed shredded carrots in favor of baby carrots, but her favorite appeared to be a fully intact carrot, with the green top still attached.

"These are great," she said. "The dirtier the better!"

Brown went on to say her mom had told her she had eaten "dirty carrots" while she was pregnant with her.

"I don't really like that. Then I feel like maybe I'm drawn to unwashed carrots. But they do taste earthier," she said.

Over 2,900 comments responded to the video, many of which appeared baffled by the whole thing, especially paired with a section at the end where Brown said she hated ranch dressing and rejected a pot of it.

"I don't like ranch but I'll eat dirt covered carrots what," one viewer wrote in response and received 24,600 likes.

Multiple comments also compared Brown's delight when discussing dirty carrots to a character from a British animation series called "Wallace and Gromit," seemingly due to the stereotypical British demeanor and the characters displaying enthusiasm for mundane things.

"The smile she made after saying 'the dirtier the better' was so wallace and gromit coded," the most popular comment beneath the video read.

Some TikTokers stitched their general reactions to the video which ranged from declaring their love for Brown to total bemusement, while one user transformed the carrot segment into a fancam edit with visual effects and backing music dedicated to the actor.

Brown, who rose to fame playing Eleven in the Netflix series "Stranger Things," has displayed a longstanding appreciation of carrots. Last November, she said they were her favorite food during an interview with Wired where she answered questions to common internet searches about her, and in 2020, Brown discussed her fondness for the vegetable and how she went through "industrial size boxes" of carrots on set, in a chat with fellow actor Louis Partridge, published by Glamour.

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