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When I read the title, my first thought was "Indians wake up and drink a pint of beer?"
The title has changed now, to remove the "clickbait" I guess. Bit of a shame, I enjoyed the guessing game...
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Natural commodities like cabbage, potatoes, beans, peppers, etc are barely advertised. Generally, if it's something anyone can make and there's no good way to differentiate it, there's not much point doing much marketing. Can't speak for the OP but maybe this is what they meant?
I have seen potatoes from Idaho advertised, Avocados from Mexico and Milk from California Cows. So Natural commodities are marketed this way.
Idaho Potatoes: https://idahopotato.com
California Walnuts: https://www.walnuts.org
California Almonds: http://www.almonds.com
California Raisins: http://calraisins.org / http://raisins.org
are a few of the domestic ones I've worked with over the years.
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Here's a list of all the official California Agricultural Marketing Programs[3]
Speaking of foreign avocados, in addition to Mexico, Chile grows and exports a lot to the US. Of of their interesting arguments is that being in the Southern Hemisphere, their crop is counter-seasonal to our domestic avos. http://avocadosfromchile.org
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marketing_board [2] https://www.ams.usda.gov [3] https://www.cdfa.ca.gov/mkt/mkt/pdf/ProgramContactInformatio...
There is an extremely similar drink in the UK (and probably elsewhere) called Ovaltine which is marketed as an energy drink. I always thought it was odd that two such similar drinks were marketed in such contrary ways. Horlicks to make your sleep and Ovaltine to give you energy. Perhaps that was the point at which I realised marketeers weren't always scientific in their advice :(
Mug is round...
Jar is round...
They should call it Round-tine!
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Turkish delight (not Cadbury's chocolate bar) is delicious. The chocolate bar is just crap mass-produced Turkish delight wrapped in chocolate. I agree it's not very pleasant, but I don't know what else one could expect.
It's not that real-world Turkish delight is bad , per se, so much as that Lewis makes it sound so life-changingly incredible that the real-world version is bound to disappoint by comparison.
Turkish Delight was /Is a common UK Christmas time treat.
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Quite honestly, I question the need to drink milk. I think it's another marketing gimmick that pushes parents to feed kids with milk. I'm yet to come across a toddler/kid who actually loves drinking milk. Most of them hate it and that's possibly for a reason. When our daughter was born, we spoke to a lactation consultant who explained how infants wean away from breast milk naturally. She explained that it's not cow's…
It is true that milk is a good source of vitamin D and calcium. It helps prevent things like Rickets which was why it was mandatory in schools when I was young. It is also one of the few non-sugary examples of a kids drink so I'm quite keen on it. I liked it when I was young.
A few years back I was on a geology expedition in western Tibet, and we left the unpopulated valley we'd been in for several weeks and headed a few hours farther west for supplies, where our Dongfeng driver thought there was a town. There was, sort of, so we went to the little store to get some coffee and any other nonperishables.
At the market, they had never heard of coffee. But they had Redbull, so we got that instead.
"From Germany to the United Arab Emirates to China you can visit the same shops, buy the same furniture, eat the same food, watch the same programmes and listen to the same music." A few years back I was on a geology expedition in western Tibet, and we left the unpopulated valley we'd been in for several weeks and headed a few hours farther west for supplies, where our Dongfeng driver thought there was a town. There…