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How the Food Industry Pays Influencers to Shill Blueberries, Butter, and More

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Re: How the Food Industry Pays Influencers to Shill Blueberries, Butter, and More

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Post by goda90 »

wdh505 wrote: post #65
whatamidoingyo wrote: post #23

Wait, are blueberries "shilled"? I had no idea, but I indeed "shill" them myself. Eating blueberries early in the morning has improved my digestion. They also make me feel really good throughout the day. So much so, I've made numerous attempts at growing blueberry bushes myself (unfortunately I don't have a green thumb). Likewise with coconut water, a habit I developed in Thailand. If they're shilled, so be it. It wo…

Blueberries like alkaline soil i think. Have you tested the soil?

Acidic actually

Re: How the Food Industry Pays Influencers to Shill Blueberries, Butter, and More

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Post by vrosas »

midnitewarrior wrote: post #71
meowkit wrote: post #60

Throwing my hat into the noise… Just try things people. Blueberries are awesome. I know a lot of yall sit at a desk and work on a computer. I personally find blueberries to be an amazing snack and fuel for that kind of work. Driscoll Berries - thumbs down Twin Rivers - thumbs up Farmers market - thumbs up

Who paid you to say this???

Violet Beauregarde aka Big Blueberry™

Re: How the Food Industry Pays Influencers to Shill Blueberries, Butter, and More

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Post by goda90 »

Scoundreller wrote: post #58
dboreham wrote: post #43

That said, blueberries and butter are great. Remember: pretty much everything you see is in service of someone's business model.

Store bought blueberries are garbage. Even the frozen “cultivated wild” (wtf is that) ones. If it’s not bought from the side of the road in northern Ontario or Quebec (and probably some other places), you don’t know what you’re missing.

There are so many kinds of blueberries, and they all get sold without specifying what kind. There's also a matter of taste. I've had blueberries I like and blueberries I feel meh about from the store. I prefer less tart and some people prefer more tart.

Re: How the Food Industry Pays Influencers to Shill Blueberries, Butter, and More

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Post by bigstrat2003 »

geodel wrote: post #66
Scoundreller wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Store bought blueberries are garbage. Even the frozen “cultivated wild” (wtf is that) ones. If it’s not bought from the side of the road in northern Ontario or Quebec (and probably some other places), you don’t know what you’re missing.

Agree. Same is true for medicine. Store bought ones are garbage. I always buy from vendors selling at street corners.

They aren't remotely the same thing dude. Medicine is better when it gets made at a factory instead of in someone's back yard. Fruits and vegetables are better when they are made locally (which can be someone's back yard), rather than being shipped halfway across the country/world.

Re: How the Food Industry Pays Influencers to Shill Blueberries, Butter, and More

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Post by barbazoo »

whatamidoingyo wrote: post #23

Wait, are blueberries "shilled"? I had no idea, but I indeed "shill" them myself. Eating blueberries early in the morning has improved my digestion. They also make me feel really good throughout the day. So much so, I've made numerous attempts at growing blueberry bushes myself (unfortunately I don't have a green thumb). Likewise with coconut water, a habit I developed in Thailand. If they're shilled, so be it. It wo…

I live in Blueberry country, we not only shill them here, we chill them, too.

Re: How the Food Industry Pays Influencers to Shill Blueberries, Butter, and More

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Post by mrWiz »

MPSimmons wrote: post #37
zeroonetwothree wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How much did Big Blueberry pay you?

Wait, do you have big blueberries? Are they for sale?

Big blueberries tend to taste worse than regular ones. I think there's a standard amount of blueberry flavor per volume so smaller ones have a more concentrated/better flavor.

Re: How the Food Industry Pays Influencers to Shill Blueberries, Butter, and More

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Post by bigstrat2003 »

Who the hell needs to pay anyone to shill butter? Butter is widely known to be absolutely delicious, to the point that people go out of their way to tell us to eat less butter for the sake of our health. I can't think of anything which needs promotion less than butter does.

Re: How the Food Industry Pays Influencers to Shill Blueberries, Butter, and More

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Post by Loughla »

bigstrat2003 wrote: post #90
Scoundreller wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Store bought blueberries are garbage. Even the frozen “cultivated wild” (wtf is that) ones. If it’s not bought from the side of the road in northern Ontario or Quebec (and probably some other places), you don’t know what you’re missing.

I have no idea why the hell people are being so hard on you. I haven't had good fresh blueberries, but it is well known that food tends to be better when you get it fresh from the place where it is grown. I can certainly vouch that tomatoes and strawberries that you get at the store are but a pale imitation of what you get if you can get them fresh. Maybe blueberries are an exception to this trend, but I doubt it. I'…

Honestly, fresh, frozen, store bought, and and all blueberries. They all taste like crunchy water to me.

We had a blueberry farm less than 5 miles from our house. My family just raves about how good the fresh blueberries are.

Crunchy water. They all taste like crunchy water. I wonder what's wrong with my taste capacity that there is an absolute absence of detection of blueberry.

Re: How the Food Industry Pays Influencers to Shill Blueberries, Butter, and More

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Post by bigstrat2003 »

justrealist wrote: post #73
Scoundreller wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Store bought blueberries are garbage. Even the frozen “cultivated wild” (wtf is that) ones. If it’s not bought from the side of the road in northern Ontario or Quebec (and probably some other places), you don’t know what you’re missing.

Store bought blueberries are fine. Frozen blueberries are fine. It's food, worry about things that matter.

Food is something that matters. It's one of life's great joys.

Re: How the Food Industry Pays Influencers to Shill Blueberries, Butter, and More

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Post by ironmanszombie »

PeterStuer wrote: post #78

Even more insidious is the armies of salaried mechanical turks on 'grass root' social groups and forums pushing forward a company's whisper campaign without any form of disclosure. You'll notice the same messages surfacing in various online avenues of certain niches nearly at the same time. They make people believe they are on the inside lane of something new and count on them spreading the 'insight' organically amon…

For a minute there I thought you described us (HN readership).
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