What do you think people would buy if everything in grocery stores

Oh man, that "cola" in the yellow label. Had that once at a cabin (we had no other mix for the booze, and the town was like an hour drive away).
It tastes like sweet, black water. Fucking awful.

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>>7914554

I have no idea. but I do have a pretty good rule: If the product comes in a package with a brand name, then you probably ought not to buy it at all. Real food, like pic related, does not have a package or a brand name.

>>7914583
Like british cola.

>>7914554
Thy just buying stuff that doesn't come in packaging. That's what I do, for the most part.
>>7914589
>If the product comes in a package with a brand name, then you probably ought not to buy it at all
Good rule of thumb.

>>7914554
Brands would have to compete on price and quality, much as they do now, so not much would change. Food aimed at children (bright sugary shit like cereal) would take a hit, though.

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>>7914607
>potatoes in water

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I like this one

>>7914616
>>for what purpose

Well, the can has to be filled with something otherwise it wouldn't sterilize properly during the canning process. The label is telling you what that filling is so that you're informed. Other foods might be canned in water, syrup, stock, or oil, etc.

>>7914607
>>7914610
>>7914621
why are bongs so basic?

You would have loved living in the Eastern bloc

>>7914589
>vegetables have Dole and Green Giant stickers
k

>>7914589
Buying things like oil or flour without a package sounds like a really good idea.

>>7914689
Both are sold in bulk at markets near me. In the case of olive oil the place imports it themselves, so it's much better than any crap you get at the supermarket.

>>7914689
The fun part is driving back home holding the oil in your hands while trying to not get it everywhere. If you take the bus back or get a friend to drive you it isn't nearly as fun.

just move to a controlled economy like Venezuela to enjoy zero branded stuff

I would buy the exact same shit because I always go to the store with a list and rarely buy anything not on that list.

>>7914689

Well clearly there are exceptions--some products must be bought in containers.

But that said, really good vendors of bulk goods will weigh it out (or measure it out if sold by volume) when you buy it. Same with spices. If you want shit you go to the supermarket isle and you buy the pre-bottled stuff. If you want good spices you go to a specialist vendor and order by weight: "I'd like 4 ounces of the Indian cumin, please"

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>>7914793
Not everyone either lives in A.) an overpriced rich enclave with a spice shop out of all things in business or B.) some third world shithole with spices actually sold like that.

Supermarket spices are fine, you autist. Just maybe dodge McCormick.

>>7914838
Really? All you can conceive of for bulk spices are either specialty shops targeted at the wealthy and third world shitholes for buying bulk spices? There are no Middle Eastern or South Asian stores near you? A middle class person's only option for spices where you live is the supermarket?

I'm having a tough time believing that, but it makes me really grateful I don't live there.

>>7914589
>Real food
All food is real food

>>7915059
The idea of foodlike substances being passed off as actual food is nothing new. Most of what's sold in the supermarket qualifies once you get away from the produce and meat counters.

>>7914554
Depends, there are packages you can see through like bacon and I would still pick the nice looking bacon
If it's something frivolous like chips I would probably buy a cheaper brand tho, I sure as hell wouldn't buy the one expensive useless thing I always pick up

>>7915053

This. Not to mention there's always mail-order. I buy my spices from spicehouse.com. The cost per unit weight is actually cheaper than even the McCormick stuff, and the quality is much better.

>>7915059
What will your next post say? Are you going to point out that all food is organic because it contains carbon atoms?

>>7914589
Actually at least chicken does and you should keep am eye on the chicken brand because some can be really awful

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>>7914554
After the price, I usually just look at the the nutrition info, the best before date, and sometimes the "product of country" stamp.

Couldn't really care less how colourful the logos are.

>>7915093
You could be subconsciously picking the products with the prettiest packaging and not realise.

>>7915204
I'm not a big believer in psychology.

>>7915218
That doesn't make you immune to branding and advertising.

>>7914607
>skim milk
You disgust me

>>7914589
>>7914602
Can you at least pretend your stupid ass isn't samefagging

>>7915218
>I know better than multi-billion dollar industires

>>7915223
I don't have to be immune to things that don't exist.

>>7915252
>I don't know how to tell when someone ios samefagging
>>7915263
Advertising exists, and it works.

>>7915263

Just because you don't believe in it doesn't mean that those things aren't real.

>>7915268
It exists to make people aware of products.

>>7914643
Every supermarket has a "basics" own-brand line that's cheap as shit, in addition to all the usual brand name stuff.

It's just an option for students and poor folk, but most of it is almost as good as brand names.

>>7915295
It exists to make people feel positively disposed toward products, making them more likely to purchase them.

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>>7915318
If you say so, but I'm pretty confident no amount of subliminal messaging is going to make me purchase one of these piles of grease.

It could be that the average person is more impulsive than I am, but I'm just as inclined to believe that all of this subconscious stuff is baloney.

>>7915303
>>7914643
Footnote: Most of it, with the exception of alcohol. Basics alcohol is garbage without exception.

>>7914554
>>7914583
Fun little fact about store brand soda: they're all made by the same company, Cott.

I know this because I work in a factory that makes soda cans for just about half of North America.

>>7915360
what do you do there? just sit around in case one of the robots malfunctions?

>>7915329
you know there exists a middle ground between "complete bullshit" and "complete mind control", right?

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>>7914610

ohhhh... that's gotta be righteous

>>7914649

i prefer yard bird

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>>7914610

>>7915069
>Are you going to point out that all food is organic because it contains carbon atoms?
kek

I think it bears to examine canned sardines

I think there can be genuine differences in quality between the oceans of origin and where they're processed

>>7915371
What is the middle ground? It's only sort of bullshit?

>>7915495
Mostly ground beef and chicken breast.

Every idiot thinks they're immune to branding and packaging, every one of these idiots is wrong.
t. marketingfag

>>7914589

this, with some exceptions like butter, flour, rice, etc

>>7915511
Any dirty tricks of the trade you could air out for us?

>>7915413
Is organ meat always organic?

>>7915495
Like most things, yeah...

>>7915511
What are you doing to improve the situation and make packaging that is less mind-controlly marketingfag?

>>7915303
When supermarkets make these distributor brand products, they almost always outsource the production, often to the regular brand. Or they try to have not too shitty products, cutting prices with large quantity rather than quality.

>>7915511
I got a question markettingfag.

You got a client comes to you with their product and its shit product, its low tier flavor, does packaging change the perception of the quality of the product that much?

>>7915544
Why WOULD he?

If they stopped needing dedicated marketing labor, the nigga would be out of a job

>>7914774
>buying unlabeled imported olive oil

top fucking kek enjoy your turkish mafia shit oil

>>7915053
>Middle Eastern or South Asian stores
I'm not going into the fucking ghettos just to buy my spices.

>>7914554
President's Choice :)

>>7915303
Same in the US with pretty much every major grocery chain.

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>>7914589
>Real food

>>7914583
no name brand is generally pretty shit

>>7915531
Well, the big thing to watch out for is meaningless buzzwords. In general there's a lot of gray area where there can be obvious implications that aren't explicit statements and therefore not lying.

In general the only thing I'd really recommend is to buy things by weight to avoid slack fill and make sure any sort of adjective has a legal definition (things such as "premium" generally do not) before you let it influence purchase decisions. Also don't buy Italian olive oil, seriously.

>>7915544
Nothing? We just respond to trends and basic psychology. If "gluten free" becomes the new retarded fad then we're going to plaster it on fucking everything. I do kind of feel bad for people who legitimately have gluten allergies and the like since the retards who think gluten is poison drives the prices of gluten-free food up.
Really just do your research on anything you buy, if everyone did this there wouldn't be so much exploitation of stupidity.

>>7915684
Easily; you know the expression "eat with your eyes?"; that does have merit to it; presentation is a very important part of food in general and easily applies to packaging, I could go on more about this but I'll just be repeating myself. Elaborating on my original point, some people may be more wary and not fall for the more obvious tricks, however even certain colors will subconsciously affect your purchasing habits and overall perception of the product.

For the more adamant of consumers we also have this issue of cognitive dissonance where if they don't like a particular brand and try a quality product from it, they'll go out of their way to convince themselves they dislike it even though they would otherwise like it if they thought it was from a different brand.

>>7916044
>For the more adamant of consumers we also have this issue of cognitive dissonance where if they don't like a particular brand and try a quality product from it, they'll go out of their way to convince themselves they dislike it even though they would otherwise like it if they thought it was from a different brand.
The inverse is also true. Anyway I'm just giving extremely basic explanations, the psychology aspect of marketing gets VERY interesting when you go deeper and this is one of the reasons I chose the field.

when will Canada's No Name (or something similar) come to the US
I want it to penetrate my tight, quivering virgin market with cheap quality products

>>7916076
>cheap, quality
I forgot a comma right where it really counts

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>>7915958
I drink therefore I am

>>7916055
Nothing surprising but very interesting. Thank you.

>>7916044
>Easily; you know the expression "eat with your eyes?"; that does have merit to it; presentation is a very important part of food in general
This only works once. Now that I know I like sushi of basically any kind it makes no difference to me if it looks like shit or it looks like it came out of a 5 star restaurant; I know I'm going to like it when I put it in my mouth.

Same shit applies to packaged goods.

>>7916055
I asked that question because I worked at a big name distribution company for beverages. They had new shit coming out all the time, problem is, most of the new shit is low on flavor, if you were to do blind taste test I'd say it tasted generic most of the time, but packaging was awesome.

One day I walk in the office, plant manager is there, secretary and someone else, we got this new tea product in a box for "taste test".

I tried it, tastes pretty generic, you can almost taste the ingredients one by one. Water, then the sweetner, then the tea flavoring, It's a tea like product to put it midly.

Plant manager thought it was fine, secretary been there for so long she's drank the kool aid everything the company puts out is great. Then it goes on the shelf and its priced at the same price as all other single serve bottles. Which for the quality that it was, its outrageous IMO

So many of the products we put out there are basically the same flavor in different packages, some are almost undrinkable, but people buy the shit out of them, I even see threads on /ck/ about some of these products and how much they love them

Sports drinks with electrolytes, same beverage as enhanced water drinks but without as much salt or sweetners, but you couldn't convince the public of that. But hey at the end of the day, the costumer chooses and we all got jobs I guess.

Lipton Iced Tea In glass bottles, is in my opinion, the best sweet tea you can buy in a bottle.

>>7914668
You can't beat 100%

>>7916352
>This only works once.

I used to think that way, but you'd be surprised how brand loyal people actually are, they will try the new shit because its "new version" of the same product they already drink. Think Mountain Dew Baja or Mountain Dew Code Red or other BS flavors they put out. Only reason why they sold the first bottle to begin with is because it was Mountain Dew, even though in reality it had nothing to do with Mountain Dew. It's like anything else, if you come up with a new product it doesn't matter if it is good or not if you give it a familiar name to piggy back from. Frito Lay is a good example for this, their seasonal odd ball flavored chips, if they were to launch those, as a product by themselves they would have sat on the shelf until they went out of date, but they don't because its Lays, they have that brand behind the shitty flavor to piggy back from. So even if the product is shit, it will sell, and sometimes it will sell more than once.

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>>7914589
>eating real food
>not eating Real Food

>>7916424
>they have that brand behind the shitty flavor

What if they actually taste good to some people?

>>7916454
Sales go up, product becomes part of the flavor line up.

>>7916479
I mean in general. Why do you say Lays makes bad chips? Or that other Mountain Dew flavours are BS?

I've never tried Mountain Dew, but the ingredients seem to be different, so I can only imagine they taste a little different. Unless it's all an elaborate social experiment.

>>7916533
Lays doesn't make bad chips, their normal flavor line up is good. But their season stuff is pretty bad, I bought a bag of their capuccino chips over 15 people at my place of work tried them not one person liked it. Frito lay is a huge company they control over half of the chip market and aisle. They also have products out there without frito or lays in the bags just like Coke and Pepsi have beverages out there that don't say Coke or Pepsi anywhere on the bottle.

Had they launched cappuccino chips as a stand alone product without frito lay name on it. It would have been gathering dust, was it a strategic decision was it a gamble? I really don't know, these companies pull decisions that make you scratch your head, but that is also why we have markets I mean just because they didnt sell in my neck of the woods, doesn't mean they didn't sell out in Seattle. Things like that can be a hit or a miss. But the general impression I get being in this business for a while is that a lot of products simply would not sell without a bigger better brand name to piggy back from.

As far as the Mountain Dew that's just a example, would it have sold as good if it wasn't part of the Mountain Dew line up? I highly doubt it.

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I have never felt the urge to use a fedora tipping reaction image, and I don't even have any, but fuck most of this thread

>>7916389
>Lipton Iced Tea In glass bottles, is in my opinion, the best sweet tea you can buy in a bottle.

really wish u could have put that at the beginning so i didnt waste my time reading your post

>>7916588
Like I said that is my opinion, I haven't seen it for sale in a few years. Which kind of bottled iced tea do you like anon?

>>7914668
Why not just buy mince and make the burgers yourself from scratch?

>>7916744
That would be more work, and not much cheaper (if at all).

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>>7915511
>every one of these idiots is wrong
Clearly you've never pinched pennies. Every single thing that I can buy store brand, I buy store brand.

I'm even rocking that best friend's high school wardrobe that he doesn't fit into anymore look. Several washes later, and the pants still smell like a moldy closet. Try me.

>>7915329
You realize that just because you, someone with a strong opinion and tastes, isn't tricked by it, doesn't mean it's nonexistent, right?

Do you think that lotteries don't make any money and are a waste of their creator's time just because you don't enter them?

>>7915059
How can food be real if our mouths aren't real?

>>7916765
I'm immune to food branding and marketing, too. If there's something I need, I do a cost analysis of it by weight or volume, then buy one of every kind that passes this first test. Then I do a personal quality test and between those two, decide what brand of said food item I buy regularly. Store brands usually win both tests. Occasionally a sale puts a different brand at the top of the list. I buy that brand that time, then revert to the quality/price winner the next trip.

>>7915511
I do agree that most people are susceptible to some level of psychological manipulation in their shopping habits.

>>7916871
>I do agree that most people are susceptible to some level of psychological manipulation in their shopping habits.

For example?

>>7916799
I been noticing this unwillingness/inability of understanding things from the point of view of others, more lately. Is this a generational gap or is it literally autism?

>>7916876
Like when people always buy the same brand out of loyalty even when a competing brand (which is essentially the same damn thing) is on sale that week for 2/3's the price of their favorite.

I do this one with my friends and family sometimes: Say they have a very popular brand of something in their fridge or pantry. Every time I go over, they always have that one. I'll say, hey you know XXX is actually a better price and seems higher quality to me, be it ice cream, coffee, whatever. I bring some over, and a lot of times they agree with me and they have a holy shit moment. Half the time they continue to buy their original favorite product. When I ask why, they always say something like: "I dunno." or "I just like it better". I believe this unknown factor is branding and marketing. I get it, packaging can be pretty. Advertisements can be memorable. They don't affect my decisions at the store, but they certainly do for a lot of people.

/r/ Ikea food product packaging

>>7916912
Attributing it to marketing just seems like a convenient asspull. They're behaving illogically, it must be working!

I'm not saying you're wrong, but.. how do you ever know why people do the things they do? Maybe his mum ate that ice cream and it's familiar. Is that brand loyalty, or just basic comfort.

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>>7916432
C'MON

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>>7915204
Manipulating the emotions of stupid people - of which there are a lot - into buying large quantities of trash they don't fucking need.
I wish the people in charge of this shit would be killed. I'd take a world full of gay, crippled, black, jews if the world were rid of these marketing pieces of shit.

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>>7914554
Do you not just buy the same thing you always buy, just whatever is cheaper?
I guess there wouldn't be any competition if the store only sold what it's farms and manufacturers produced. You're left with a farmers market or local stall. Unless you mean everything a country sells to its people is labeled the same, even if two products come from different suppliers.
Tastes would stay the same. People will do anything to get their fixes.

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>>7916988
>You aren't saving money. 'They' are.
The whole psychological, subconscious, subliminal, emotional, impulse-buying bullshit is just something everyone perpetuates.
After a while, the commercials get old, and you can't eat the same things over and over again.
And even further down the rabbit hole, you come to a conclusion that it's all just a conspiracy theory.
>Brainwashing sci-fi
If anything, this manipulative marketing and advertising is just theory in practice. And to believe you don't have a choice in the buying is to say human's ultimately have no free will and control.

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>>7916044
>Cognitive dissonance
Fuck, that's deep and kind of frightening.
Here's something. Does it make people happier to buy food with brighter, happier colors, even after buying, as opposed to buying the delicious organic foods packaged in gloomy, dark colors?

>Off brand
Bland colors, little to no color > customer buys and loses appetite because of lack of appeal
>Brand name
Bright colors, pretty designs (oh look it's spider man on the box) > customer buys and feels happier after just seeing the box the food is in

Yet they taste the same by themselves. Just one has different flavors and preservatives (or a lack of) than the other, so one is cheaper. Then there are sales - buy two get one free.

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Then you think you understand the system. You've got them cornered. You could take big business down with just your words. People would be healthier!
You would be a hero! You're no one's fool...
I'm smart and healthy...

>'Fitness' and 'Health' industries
<---VS--->
>'Beauty' and 'Sex' industries
(Plastic surgery and muscle growth)
It's all in the diet right? Well. Whatever.

>>7915069
spicehouse.com.........have you tried any of their garlic stuff? I'm interested in the fancy garlic salt and anything else garlic they have.

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You want to be happier. Money would let you do whatever you want. You could do whatever you want forever. You'd never have to worry about a single thing if you're money didn't get low. You could be happy. You could make 2.7 million dollars in just a few days - it's easy. Scientists found a new fruit that burns fat and builds muscle with little to no effort.

>I'm immune to addiction as well... *tips fedora*
>You can buy anything.

>>7914554
If you're curious about this, check out how Australia's plain cigarette packaging has turned out.

All packs look the same and instead of having the brand printed just above the filter, it has a random code like T13302 which somehow identifies which manufacturer and strength it is.

People still seem to buy different brands because I guess they taste different

I quit 3 months ago so I dunno
I just got more cash now and cough less than I used to

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>>7916959
>addiction
>sugar addiction and good tasting food, high fructose syrup
>you buy and eat new shit without even looking at the nutrition facts and ingredients
>growing corn to feed obesity and ethanol demands
>ease the pain without any effort on your part

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-28212223
https://www.steroid.com/steroid_black_market_prices.php#

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>>7917089
>>7917065
>>7917057
>>7917028
>>7916999
>>7916988
>>7916975
>"Samefag retard" hurr durr bitch fag dickhead shit fucking homo neet edge simpleton cunt nigger jew
Animation and movies making fantasy look like reality. When fictional food looks delicious. When the real world just can't meet your dream standards. But people try...

>What makes a man, anon?

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>>7914554
>packaged the exact same?
pic related

>>7916765
>Several washes later, and the pants still smell like a moldy closet. Try me

Add a cup or two of vinegar to the wash. It will cut right through that smell.

>>7916912
>I bring some over, and a lot of times they agree with me

that's your friends and family being polite and not telling you to fuck off you autistic sperg

but go ahead and keep shitposting about your advertisement redpilled crusade to save people from buying marie callenders when tgif platters are .13 cheaper for the """"""same thing"""""""""

>>7916044
>I do kind of feel bad for people who legitimately have gluten allergies and the like since the retards who think gluten is poison drives the prices of gluten-free food up.

oh wow, those poor fuckers who has the grocery isle dedicated to their illness fucking quadruple in size overnight and now have special meals available at literally any restaurant now, those poor victims of ""fad"" """"""diets""""""

>>7917089
Eh nah, the corn subsidies make it all so cheap. It's an artifical low. Same with America's cotton industry. We use tax payer dollars to lower the cost to industry stich makes for a cheaper product. It's bullshit. We're paying for it either way in the end. But hey, the corporations like it, since the artificially lower cost of the end product means more sales that couldn't be achieved if the consumer had to pay the real cost upfront.

OH WELL. THANKS LOBBYISTS. Sweet sweet campaign contributions.

>>7917858

I find it curious that people are fond of bringing up subsidies, but rarely mention a far more important cause:

Taxes and quotas for importing foreign sugar that were passed during the late 1970's. That has a far larger impact on HFCS use than subsidies do.

>>7917866
It's still tax dollars lowering the price of foods that do not need to have lower prices. Maybe obesity wouldn't be such an issue if we didn't have cheap as hell over sweetened processed food everywhere. We don't need lower sweetener prices. These processed foods should simply not be so available and cheap.

>>7915370
>he is the robot

>>7916912
A really big aspect of marketing and branding is the idea that if you are X type of person then Y is the brand for you. Not every brand is gonna be Coke or Malboro. Most advertising is more tightly targeted. Malt liquor and menthol cigarettes were traditionally marketed to blacks, and later Latinos. Fast casual restaurants target middle class people who want to eat fast food, yet see most fast food chains in a dim light. Toung Ot Toi Sriricha with many languages printed on the bottle became a symbol of worldly taste to a generation. A poor person will go out of their way to buy brand name stuff over generic because they don't want to see themselves as poor. That poor person may feel antipathy toward "foreign" brands whereas more wealthy person might go for a brand with a foreign sounding name, associating "imported" with luxury.

You see this shit every day. If you know someone's region, race and socioeconomic status you can pretty much predict the products they will buy. You can easily walk into a supermarket and tell who shops there just by which brands are on the shelves. Some things are simple "tells". Lots of stuff labeled organic? Reasonably affluent people shop here. Nothing labeled organic in the whole damned store? This place is for poorfags only.

>>7915330
If you're in the position where you have to consider basics alcohol, then you're not in any position to judge it.

>>7916909
Not sure, but I've noticed it too anon.

I have a store nearby with a ton of generically labelled (like, black text on white package) frozen foods. Looking at shit to buy is like browsing books in a library.

>>7917962
That's pretty interesting. I do find that the people who adamantly cling to lower quality, bigger brand products had a period of poverty in their lives. I also agree with being able to tell who shops at a store based on the products they stock. It's kinda funny. It hasn't made me cynical, it's just fun to observe.

>>7917847
>>7917852
Dude. I'm sorry you're such an angry, rustled-jimmies little faggot. Good job on your "ironic" use of quotation marks. It really makes you come across as a hardcore intellectual as you imagine someone trying to "redpill" their friends about TV dinners while crying about the price of gluten-free labelled food. Thanks for the laugh, dummy. Oh, and suck a dick. I know you've thought about it. Live the dream, guy.

>>7916975
I like these because they don't take into considering culture, target audience or anything.

>>7919061
It doesn't make me cynical, and it is fun to observe. We like to think we're above that kind of stuff, but the truth is we're just blind of the quirks of our own social class, because that shit is baseline normal to us.

For example I like to think the brands I buy are irrelevant to my identity. But I look in my larder and I see Pomi tomatoes (imported from Italy) and Barilla pasta. I look in the mirror and see I'm wearing Levi's and Converse. And there are two Fender electric guitars in the room with me right now. I'm pretty sure any marketing expert could have me pegged from that alone.

>>7914554
You wouldn't enjoy it as much, there's a proven correlation between package design and perceived quality.
For example people would claim to taste superior quality tomatoes from a can that says organic with images of ripe, healthy tomatoes in a rolling green field over, say, the same tomatoes in packaging like OP's pic that just says "ORGANIC TOMATOES".
It was in some study I happened across.

>>7914554
Milk and eggs for the most part, unless a store brand is notoriously bad.

Most generic chips are much better than lays, and most american cheddars and cheeses are practically the same unless you buy cabbot or go for real cheese.

>>7914607
>UHT skim milk

Just drink a glass of water, it'll have more flavor.

>>7917911
What better way to make money than fuck over the health industry with obesity and leave the internet to the aftermath with this whole, 'patriarchy' and 'fat shame' bullshit?
>Enter beauty industry
>Ever notice how many cotton fields there are in comparison to corn, hops, grain, and tobacco or weed?

>>7917891
>for the table, not the cellar
Lol wuuuuuuut

>>7914668
Frozen preformed burgers are disgusting.

>>7914838
I'm in flyover and we have a few spice shops.
Though it's a city of 400,000.

>>7914607
canned potatoes? Why?

>>7915910
Actually it's No Name.

>>7920219
It means that the wine is so cheap, that it won't age, but ferment and become vinegar.

>>7920606
I wouldn't use the term "cheap". Not all wine is meant to age. Most is meant to drink young. Hell, most rosés don't even survive past the summer after they were bottled.

If you have a lot of money you can get into the game of buying wine from vintages suitable for aging and cellaring it until it's optimal for drinking. But those who do that represent only a small percentage of wine drinkers. In a perfect world it would be all of us, but the truth is most folks who drink wine are drinking vin ordinaire - table wine. And there's no shame in that.

>>7914607
can someone please inform me, why people buy canned potatoes. as well as ready made roux. i just don't get it

>>7914645
>Eastern bloc

Can only speak form German DR but they definitely had their own brands as well as a slim but existing variety

>>7921689

I have no idea why anyone would buy canned potatoes outside of some kind of emergency stockpile of canned food.

>>Ready made roux
IMHO that stuff is evil, but I can understand why someone might buy it: time savings, or maybe they just suck at cooking and are unable to make a roux themselves without burning it.

>>7921701
but seriously anon, i think everybody on here agrees, that if one is inept to the degree that they can't even do a simple roux they should probably neck themselves. but at least that's an explanation

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no marketing (almost) -> cheap
still good

>>7921708
>i think everybody on here agrees

No, most people here don't even know what a roux is. Instead they're arguing about tendies and fast food.

>>7921721
to be honest i was thinking that as soon as i had sent the post, hoping nobody would notice my stupidity

>>7915090

get yours at the butcher instead of supermarket

>>7914676
>A sticker is the exact same thing as a package

wew lad

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>>7914554
>What do you think people would buy if everything in grocery stores was packaged the exact same?

I think for efficiency and environmental reasons, there ought to be standardized packaging.

>>7921815
>there ought to be standardized packaging.

There is standardized food packaging. Cans for canned food are standardized by a numerical size--i.e. a #10 can of beans, etc. Most wine and liquor are sold in standard 750mL bottles. Of course there are smaller sizes (pint) and larger sizes ("handle" aka 1.75 L) as well. For wine specifically there is the usual size, as well as the larger magnum, Methuselah, and so on. Beverages are standardized: you've got your gallon jugs of milk or juice and the smaller cartons. Beer bottles are usually 12oz. The standard canned beverage is the same. Soft drinks are sold in 2L or 20oz bottles, etc.

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Hello /ck/
So the long story short, I am meeting my girlfriends cousins (11 and 14 y/o girls) and they are obsessed with milky way magic stars and skittles. I would love to make 2 deserts for them that contain each of those sweets and I am looking for creative ways to use that candy. So far I have found cake, buns and cookie recipes.
Also general commercial candy in gastronomy thread.

>>7922091
skittles vodka and milky way weed brownies

>>7922091
Skittles cookies or the normal skittles candies?

One thing that comes to mind is to smash up the cookies, add a little butter if needed, and then use that to make a pie crust. Basically like a graham cracker crust but with these instead of the crackers. The filling could be as simple as ice cream, or you could go fancier.

You could use pieces of Milky way bars and skittles candy for a topping. Or, use those as inspriation: The milky way one could be drizzled with nougat, caramel, and chocolate. For the skittles one you could make a few different colored 'icings' from skittles candy, then use that to decorate the cake in the shape of a rainbow (or whatever else).

>>7922091
Sorry guys. My phone is acting weird and mistakenly I posted this in this thread instead of making a new one. I couldn't delete the post :(
And I meant the candy

>>7922128
>And I meant the candy

make a giant skittle as follows:
Make whatever generic cake mix you like. Instead of baking it in a square pan, bake it in the bottom of a wok or a mixing bowl so it has a domed shape. Make two of these and attach the flat sides together using some kind of sweet filling. Now you have a skittle-shaped cake. Melt some sugar with some skittles mixed in (ideally her favorite color). Add food coloring if needed to get the color right. Place the cake on a wire rack, then pour the molten sugar mix over it to coat. Do the bottom first, let it harden, then flip and do the top.

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>>7922109
This nigga.... knows what's what

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>>7914838
I honestly wish they're were things like that here, there's something that makes my autism real happy when seeing images of spice markest. Pic related

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>>7915258
Are you implying multi million dollar companies are run by smart people? Psychology isn't a real science, and it doesn't have to be, if it gets general results that's good enough for these companies.

>>7915360
I-is cott. Owned by...
a jew?

>>7916929
>brand loyalty, or just basic comfort
Brand loyalty advertised as basic comfort. This is how advertising works.

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>>7916975
>CREATES THE SENSATIONAL OF
>SENSATIONAL OF

>>7921817
wait.. wut?

>>7924272
Huh?

>>7924335
There's a grammar error in that image which he thinks warrants a sick reaction face.

>>7921817
The Inevitable Destruction of Our Planet - the snapshot

>>7921739
listen up nigga

i work produce, and i make sure people see that label when i stock that shit cause i know people love seeing that brand name, and that label when they look at it. niggas love brands, like those nike shoes nigga

>>7924335
can't wait until this meme dies

>>7914610
do you guys also have Victory Gin?

>>7914616
canned taters are good for stew or jap curry. gives it that dinty moore hobo cuisine flavor.

>>7914668
I've had those they arent bad, comparing them to other shitty tasting hockey pucks of goo. if i hadnt gotten them from a neighbor who bought them while high as fuck, and wanting a hamburger but got banned from mcdonalds for selling dope in their parking lots.

>>7916765
soak em in peroxide, or vinegar

>>7917891
that label is pure bantz

>>7921711
ive seen that before. that labeling is guaranteed to reap mad hipsterbux if they sold them here in the states.

>>7915059
>What is soylent
>What are supplements

>>7915263
You do, that is how your body combats the flu sometimes.

>>7917891
I'd reckon it's balsamic vinegar with added ethanol.

>>7924506
underrated post