“What did one depressed rabbit say to the other?”/“Do you even carrot all?”

“Carrot” sounds a bit like “care at.” “I don’t carrot all” has been printed on many images. ““I don’t carrot all about soup” was cited in print in 1884.
   
A riddle was posted on Reddit—Dad Jokes on April 12, 2017:
   
Q: What did one depressed rabbit say to the other?
A: “Do you even carrot all?”
   
   
14 October 1884, The Daily Gazette (Fort Wayne, IN), pg. 1, col. 1:
“I don’t carrot all about soup. Besides, four-caret soup is literally too rich with water for my blood.”—Paris Beacon.
 
Chronicling America
30 July 1888, The World (New York, NY), pg. 2, col. 2:
“Lard, yes,” responded the grocer, “it beet olive ever seen in the weigh of a picnic before. Usually I don’t carrot all for such things, but this was very spicy, and we were raisin Cain all day.”
     
25 July 1937, Washington (DC) Post, “Prof. Phiddlefuddle: ‘You Can’t Befuddle Phiddlefuddle,’” Parade of Youth sec., pg. 6, col. 1:
“I don’t carrot all for your chatter.”
 
3 March 2007, Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI), “This shopper just wants one banana” by Bill Wineke:
I don’t carrot all about how I buy my carrots, but section 91.03 does: Carrots with tops can be sold by the bunch, while topless carrots must be sold by the pound. Can you beet that?
 
Twitter
Diydisco‏
@diydisco
“I don’t carrot all”
10:12 PM - 12 Jul 2009
 
Twitter
MozCat‏
@Doc_Mercy_
Replying to @Sametobehonest
@Sametobehonest I thought you were gonna make a rabbit joke :( its like you don’t even carrot all…lolz
5:52 PM - 1 May 2013
 
Twitter
BILL NYE THO‏
@Bill_Nye_Tho
what did the poor rabbit say after his girlfriend dumped him?? “it’s like you didn’t even carrot all” daaaaaaaang
10:19 PM - 1 Oct 2013
 
Twitter
Triston‏
@ClickablePen
“Sometimes it’s like she doesn’t even carrot all” said the rabbit in pain.
7:03 PM - 30 Apr 2014
 
Google Books
Title I Don’t Carrot All (an Animal Journal/Diary)
Author Creative Journals
Publisher CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017
ISBN 1542508452, 9781542508452
Length 148 pages
   
Reddit—Dad Jokes
What did one depressed rabbit say to the other? (self.dadjokes)
submitted April 12, 2017 by thecolemanation
Do you even carrot all?
 
The Amazingly Lame Joke of the Day
Friday, April 14, 2017
What did one depressed rabbit say to the other?
Do you even carrot all?
Posted by Tim Wycislak at 6:49 AM