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How BuzzFeed’s Tasty Conquered Online Food

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Re: How BuzzFeed’s Tasty Conquered Online Food

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Post by maxerickson »

mstaoru wrote: post #10
desigooner wrote: post #2

Another factor that wasn't mentioned: Plagiarism. They often use Serious Eats recipes without any sort of attribution. Edit: Some context: https://mic.com/articles/163958/the-secret-ingredient-to-buz...

Recipes are not copyrightable, and I'd argue that it's actually beneficial to all of us to exchange recipes freely and allow for commercial reuse. Food is an important and quantifiable part of our lives, and improving it is a collective effort. As I support scientific papers "theft" by Scihub, in the same way I support Buzzfeed propagating good food.

That doesn't answer the charge of plagiarism.

Re: How BuzzFeed’s Tasty Conquered Online Food

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Post by vanderZwan »

Whenever I see any gif with a recipe come by on my social media, it always seems to follow the same meta-recipe: hyperpalatable ingredient mixed with other hyperpalatable ingredient, the end result being something that has fat, sugar and salt in abundance.

I guess that it makes sense, producing the clickbait equivalent for taste (you watch it and think "oh that looks mouthwatering") but I don't recall ever watching these and thinking they look healthy.

EDIT: To clarify, I am specifically referring to adding a lot more sugar, salt and fat than we need; I do realise a lot of these recipes use vegetables, have plenty of fibres and essential nutrients, and so on, but hyperprocessed foods that lack those qualities is a different kind of unhealthy than what I'm talking about.

For the record, I never actively look online for recipes on any of these sites, so maybe that is also the reason I only see these recipes.

Re: How BuzzFeed’s Tasty Conquered Online Food

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Post by [deleted] »

maxerickson wrote: post #11
mstaoru wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Recipes are not copyrightable, and I'd argue that it's actually beneficial to all of us to exchange recipes freely and allow for commercial reuse. Food is an important and quantifiable part of our lives, and improving it is a collective effort. As I support scientific papers "theft" by Scihub, in the same way I support Buzzfeed propagating good food.

That doesn't answer the charge of plagiarism.

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Re: How BuzzFeed’s Tasty Conquered Online Food

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Post by dewey »

gcb0 wrote: post #8
Dowwie wrote: post #5

I don't know about all that hype. Serious Eats, the Sporkful, etc are all better.

search for recipes 3 times a day and never even saw that site before. seems like a paid puff piece.

They are not really a recipe site you find via your usual search engine use to cook something.

They just show up in your IG / FB feed all the time. From my experience people just "like" them because they look nice but never try to recreate them as the sped-up video format isn't great for that.

Re: How BuzzFeed’s Tasty Conquered Online Food

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Post by dspillett »

matteuan wrote: post #15

Tasty is evil. Usually, their receipts waste half of the ingredients by making you overcooking them, or you will cover taste because they want to mix too many things together. They have very good marketers, now they should hire a proper cook.

And in many cases: so. much. cheese. And cheese. And more cheese.
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