When I was a little kid I didn't like my mum's pot roast because she had these great big onion chunks. She didn't dice them or the carrots, they were always cut into large pieces. The potatoes, well that was fine, but I always picked away the carrots and onions because they needed to be smaller, IMO. She always wanted me to eat everything on my plate. Thank goodness there were green peas as a side dish, I filled up on those and the potatoes and meat. To this day I still don't care much for cooked carrots unless they are finely chopped in a soup or stew. I guess the same with the onions, I don't like big pieces still.