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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 lostlogin »

bigstrat2003 wrote: post #97

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.

> Who the hell needs to pay anyone to shill butter?

Any company that makes butter as good as the below [1], and has an idea that some people haven’t heard of it.

It’s silly expensive. It’s so great.

https://www.lewisroadcreamery.com/collections/grass-fed-butt...

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

#102

Post by barbazoo »

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'…

> I have no idea why the hell people are being so hard on you.

I think it's this and the gatekeeping in general.

> Store bought blueberries are garbage.

They're obviously not garbage and some people don't have access to fresh Blueberries.

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

#103

Post by latentcall »

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'…

The tomatoes I grow in my backyard are leagues better than any tomato sold in stores around here. It really does make a difference. No wonder a lot of people are so lukewarm on produce. The stuff people buy in the store is junk!

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

#104

Post by morkalork »

el_benhameen wrote: post #63
7thaccount wrote: post #47

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2/3 of my bushes died. One is still going strong. It takes time. They also need acidic soil.

I’m a decent gardener, but I’ve killed every blueberry bush I’ve planted. Given the rest of this thread, I assume it was some sort of plot by Big Blueberry to keep me hooked on their supply. Oh well.

The bunnies are kahoots with them too! Eastern cottontails massacred my bushes.

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

#105

Post by bigstrat2003 »

lostlogin wrote: post #101
bigstrat2003 wrote: post #97

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.

> Who the hell needs to pay anyone to shill butter? Any company that makes butter as good as the below [1], and has an idea that some people haven’t heard of it. It’s silly expensive. It’s so great. https://www.lewisroadcreamery.com/collections/grass-fed-butt...

I'll have to see if I can find it at a store. I'm always down to improve my butter experience. I will say that I was very let down by Kerrygold. It's noticeably better if you are having just plain buttered toast, but otherwise I can't taste any difference between it and the normal butter one sees at the store.

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

#106

Post by rainbowzootsuit »

mrWiz wrote: post #96
MPSimmons wrote: post #37

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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.

This is definitely a shill comment from Big Black Currant.

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

#107

Post by lostlogin »

bigstrat2003 wrote: post #94
geodel wrote: post #66

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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.

Some medicines aren’t available at the pharmacy and the locally produced varieties fill a market gap. Ethical hits for the modern druggie.

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

#108

Post by bigstrat2003 »

barbazoo wrote: post #102
bigstrat2003 wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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'…

> I have no idea why the hell people are being so hard on you. I think it's this and the gatekeeping in general. > Store bought blueberries are garbage. They're obviously not garbage and some people don't have access to fresh Blueberries.

I can't really fault OP for that. I would absolutely say that store bought tomatoes are garbage, even though I buy and eat them. The quality is so much better with fresh tomatoes that I think it's fair to say that the store bought ones are garbage. I understood OP as meaning the same thing with respect to blueberries.

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

#109

Post by jbm »

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…

I'm convinced that this is why every recipe on Youtube now suddenly involves "delicious" Almond milk (which is not delicious and not milk).

If you are going to be shilling for the vegan processed food industry, at least use oat milk (which you can make at home) or soy milk (which is actually delicious - at least the processed versions I had in Japan).

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

#110

Post by lostlogin »

bigstrat2003 wrote: post #105
lostlogin wrote: post #101

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Who the hell needs to pay anyone to shill butter? Any company that makes butter as good as the below [1], and has an idea that some people haven’t heard of it. It’s silly expensive. It’s so great. https://www.lewisroadcreamery.com/collections/grass-fed-butt...

I'll have to see if I can find it at a store. I'm always down to improve my butter experience. I will say that I was very let down by Kerrygold. It's noticeably better if you are having just plain buttered toast, but otherwise I can't taste any difference between it and the normal butter one sees at the store.

Lewis Road have some truly great products - the salted butter is obviously different due to the visible salt crystals.
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