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Offline KarlosTopic starter

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Supermarket Wisdom (was ...but will it catch on?)
« on: November 11, 2006, 12:11:27 PM »


;-)

(I rather like my foodstuffs to have foods in them)
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Re: ...but will it catch on?
« Reply #1 on: November 11, 2006, 09:16:02 PM »
That kind of 'marketing' has been around for a while.

Remember the 'contians no chemicals' messages?

HEY, I WANT MY PRODUCTS TO CONTAIN CHEMICALS!
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Re: ...but will it catch on?
« Reply #2 on: November 11, 2006, 09:54:56 PM »
Heaven forfend there should be substances of a chemical nature in our foods?
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Re: ...but will it catch on?
« Reply #3 on: November 11, 2006, 10:18:25 PM »
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(I rather like my foodstuffs to have foods in them)


 :lol:

I wonder if they just mince the strangers (in IAMA's case sociopaths) and put them in there.
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Re: ...but will it catch on?
« Reply #4 on: November 11, 2006, 10:39:09 PM »
Allergy advice for the hard of thinking:

(excuse the lousy cameraphone shots)





"No sh*t, Sherlock!"
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Re: ...but will it catch on?
« Reply #5 on: November 11, 2006, 10:44:49 PM »
I can just imagine the designer in their reprographics dept smirking to himself whilst designing the box :lol:
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Re: ...but will it catch on?
« Reply #6 on: November 11, 2006, 10:45:57 PM »
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Karlos wrote:

(I rather like my foodstuffs to have foods in them)


 :lol:

I wonder if they just mince the strangers (in IAMA's cas sociopaths) and put them in there.


You calling IAMA a mincer?

How dare you?  I'll have you know he's a red-blooded macho-macho-man if ever I saw one. ;-)
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Re: ...but will it catch on?
« Reply #7 on: November 11, 2006, 10:48:15 PM »
 :lol:
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Re: ...but will it catch on?
« Reply #8 on: November 11, 2006, 10:48:31 PM »
On a loosely related topic, does anybody else here get irritated by "serving suggestion" images on food packaging?

Surely a line has been crossed in the "insulting the customer's intelligence" when a bottle of fruit juice shows a picture of the same substance in a glass, annotated as a serving suggestion?

What did they think people would do? Eat it with a fish slice?
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Re: ...but will it catch on?
« Reply #9 on: November 11, 2006, 10:56:02 PM »
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What did they think people would do? Eat it with a fish slice?


Roger irrelevent, he's totally hat stand.
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Re: ...but will it catch on?
« Reply #10 on: November 12, 2006, 04:09:28 PM »
What about saying "Fat Free", and then admitting that the product contains fat, but you aren't passing the cost of said fat on to the consumer.  :-D
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Re: Supermarket Wisdom (was ...but will it catch on?)
« Reply #11 on: November 12, 2006, 09:33:41 PM »
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;-)

(I rather like my foodstuffs to have foods in them)


:lol:

or at least some MSG ;-)
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Re: Supermarket Wisdom (was ...but will it catch on?)
« Reply #12 on: November 12, 2006, 10:25:08 PM »
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or at least some MSG ;-)


Mmmmmmm Umami :-D
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Re: Supermarket Wisdom (was ...but will it catch on?)
« Reply #13 on: November 12, 2006, 10:27:27 PM »
Going back a few posts, seriously, does anybody need to be told that eggs contain egg?
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Re: ...but will it catch on?
« Reply #14 on: November 12, 2006, 10:49:18 PM »
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adolescent wrote:
What about saying "Fat Free", and then admitting that the product contains fat, but you aren't passing the cost of said fat on to the consumer.  :-D


I's sure somebody has probably tried this already :lol:
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