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InediblePenguin posted:believe it or not there are places in the world where there isn't a local co-op selling bulk spices; I've lived in several I've lived in the "fewer than 200 people" butt zones and folk still managed to eat reasonably without paying for chopped onions to be parachuted in. And given the local flavor of those places I sincerely doubt they're Blue Apron's primary demo.
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Pick posted:I've lived in the "fewer than 200 people" butt zones and folk still managed to eat reasonably without paying for chopped onions to be parachuted in. And given the local flavor of those places I sincerely doubt they're Blue Apron's primary demo. Well, if those folks want fries piled high, all I can say is God bless.
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Meal-kit trends from Blue Apron and the like are horrible for a variety of reasons. It further divorces people from any sense of where there food comes from and how it is produced, allowing corporations to continue treating farmers, livestock, and the environment horribly while presenting neat and sanitary packages to the consumer. All the food is sent to a couple of distribution centres and each ingredient packaged individually in little plastic bags or foil, then shipped across the country to people's doors, using far more fuel and creating far more waste than the already grossly wasteful and fuel-guzzling grocery industry. It takes very basic, easy and generally freely available to learn skills (ie cooking) and makes them appear expensive and difficult, requiring the aid of a pricey intermediary to handle the challenging task of feeding yourself. It justifies a sense of entitled self-pity/congratulations: sure, people have been feeding themselves for thousands of years, but MY life is just so complicated and difficult.
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I guess that's it, isn't it? It's not that you want to learn how to cook, because you'd make do with the ingredients you have access to (I'll admit food deserts do exist). The service broadcasts to everyone that: A) Your life is just sooo busy, no wasted moments here! B) Instead of eating terrible fast food, you're eating healthy C) Not only healthy, but very fancy, since the marketing promises it so It's a weird consumerist badge of honor to show off to your facebook friends.
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May 1, 2016 01:21
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All the Blue Apron ads target rich 35 year olds in the tech industry
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FFT posted:calling a small place not many people know about a "hole in the wall" predates modern hipsterism by at least two centuries It really comes across as condescending and patronizing when the bougie hipster types I mentioned before use it. And before you ask "what do you mean by hipster", it's the kind of person who'd buy artisinal "pork clouds". Count yourself lucky you've never known anyone like that, for real
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Planet Piss posted:It really comes across as condescending and patronizing when the bougie hipster types I mentioned before use it. And before you ask "what do you mean by hipster", it's the kind of person who'd buy artisinal "pork clouds". Count yourself lucky you've never known anyone like that, for real That's what I was picturing too. I live in a city where people petitioned to shut down low income housing because it would "ruin the horizon". content:  *slurps seeds*
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cash crab posted:*slurps $7 seeds* FIFY
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Smoothies, for people who think chewing is too hard.
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God, just use a loving cup
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Blue Apron stuff is generally ridiculously expensive, but in massive swathes of the country, many of the ingredients simply aren't available locally. The variety seems nice, and it's super convenient. For people in major cities, it's very lazy, but for people in bumfuck Idaho, it might just be reasonable to get some variety.
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baquerd posted:Blue Apron stuff is generally ridiculously expensive, but in massive swathes of the country, many of the ingredients simply aren't available locally. The variety seems nice, and it's super convenient. For people in major cities, it's very lazy, but for people in bumfuck Idaho, it might just be reasonable to get some variety. idk how many people in bumfuck Idaho can afford it. America has no middle class and the non-coastal regions have "low cost of living" which means "low wages, also"
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Mu Zeta posted:All the Blue Apron ads target rich 35 year olds in the tech industry I thought those people ate soylent.
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PhazonLink posted:I thought those people ate soylent. They're to busy getting poisoned with heavy metals. I want to submit soylent for this thread. Why the gently caress would you trust that idiot that made that stuff with a liquid that goes inside your body?
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TontoCorazon posted:They're to busy getting poisoned with heavy metals. The man once took antibiotics to 'massacre' his gut bacteria so that he didn't have to poop for a water saving challenge where he drank a modified version of Soylent.
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baquerd posted:Blue Apron stuff is generally ridiculously expensive, but in massive swathes of the country, many of the ingredients simply aren't available locally. The variety seems nice, and it's super convenient. For people in major cities, it's very lazy, but for people in bumfuck Idaho, it might just be reasonable to get some variety. Mu Zeta posted:All the Blue Apron ads target rich 35 year olds in the tech industry Blue Apron is Bad and the huge influx of food subscription services aimed at San Fran tech bros is Very Bad.
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After learning about the "bone broth" trend, I've decided to promote my new dietary panacea: eating nothing but washed, unenriched white rice.
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Do you boil it? Sorry, that was a silly question.
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Uncooked rice. Just eat huge, heaping bowls full of it. Let the rice swell and burst your innards. A taste explosion. Sit there and grin, feeling your gut rupture, the pain mitigated by the fact you are a pioneer of foodgineering.
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Mu Zeta posted:All the Blue Apron ads target rich 35 year olds in the tech industry So like people with money and usually pretty awful work/life balance. So people are super intimidated by cooking and anything that gets more people into it is fine with me.
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Planet Piss posted:God, just use a loving cup My old roommate once threw a party and she served punch and supplied cups. One of her guests brought a Mason jar in her purse and drank punch from that instead. She also would put the lid on the jar between drinks. It was very strange.
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HelloIAmYourHeart posted:My old roommate once threw a party and she served punch and supplied cups. One of her guests brought a Mason jar in her purse and drank punch from that instead. She also would put the lid on the jar between drinks. It was very strange. In my house growing up, mason jars were just called "glasses". The little ones were for stuff like orange juice at breakfast, and the big ones were for stuff like iced tea in the afternoon. I am genuinely mystified by the mason jar thing the last few years, though they make fine drinking vessels.
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Mason jars are just fine for poo poo like OJ and tea. Also for anything that can be drunk up with a straw. Anything else is weird. I get mad as hell when places try to serve craft redneck drinks (like fake moonshine) from mason jars though.
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joshtothemaxx posted:Mason jars are just fine for poo poo like OJ and tea. Also for anything that can be drunk up with a straw. Anything else is weird. I get mad as hell when places try to serve craft redneck drinks (like fake moonshine) from mason jars though. When you're 8, and it's an incredibly hot summer day, a big mason jar full of iced tea with a straw is incredibly your poo poo.
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cheerfullydrab posted:When you're 8, and it's an incredibly hot summer day, a big mason jar full of iced tea with a straw is incredibly your poo poo. It could be in pretty much anything and it'd still be just as much incredibly your poo poo. There's nothing special about a mason jar beyond personal memories of drinking from them. If anything they are inferior to almost every other type of cup since they sweat so ridiculously much.
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HelloIAmYourHeart posted:My old roommate once threw a party and she served punch and supplied cups. One of her guests brought a Mason jar in her purse and drank punch from that instead. She also would put the lid on the jar between drinks. It was very strange. This is an anti-date rape drug strategy, fwiw.
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Murphy Brownback posted:It could be in pretty much anything and it'd still be just as much incredibly your poo poo. There's nothing special about a mason jar beyond personal memories of drinking from them. If anything they are inferior to almost every other type of cup since they sweat so ridiculously much. My point was more that, in the 2010's, mason jars are for cool adult cocktails, not for children drinking iced tea, and I can't precisely figure out when/how/why that happened.
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cheerfullydrab posted:In my house growing up, mason jars were just called "glasses". The little ones were for stuff like orange juice at breakfast, and the big ones were for stuff like iced tea in the afternoon. I am genuinely mystified by the mason jar thing the last few years, though they make fine drinking vessels. Same, but the little jars were pimento cheese spread jars at one point. We still have them, they're older than me. I refuse to drink from them. Mason jars are fine though - sterilizing jars and canning is a weekly activity with my parents. Though at Walmart the other day I saw....plastic mason jars?? With built in lids and straws? What is the point of that?
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joshtothemaxx posted:Mason jars are just fine for poo poo like OJ and tea. Also for anything that can be drunk up with a straw. Anything else is weird. I get mad as hell when places try to serve craft redneck drinks (like fake moonshine) from mason jars though. There's a burger place I like in Hell's Kitchen where they serve soft drinks in cans, but with a Mason jar with a straw to pour your drink into.
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baquerd posted:Blue Apron stuff is generally ridiculously expensive, but in massive swathes of the country, many of the ingredients simply aren't available locally. The variety seems nice, and it's super convenient. For people in major cities, it's very lazy, but for people in bumfuck Idaho, it might just be reasonable to get some variety. If you're in a place where the only way you're getting ingredients is if they're stocked at the wal-mart, you're not gonna be able to afford Blue Apron. It's a service for city-dwelling techies, not the rural poor. If you're the rural rich, you get poo poo imported yourself or drive to farmer's markets.
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When I was bumming around San Francisco, I went into a "upscale nerd toys" store just to check it out and, for a person who is generally at peace with life and in harmony with my surroundings, I've rarely been so angry in my life. Hey look, a kit to make the "useless box!" Boy howdy, that's great, take someone else's cute but dumb art idea and then mass market it. Tell your friends!! All your friends!! And remember, because the kit has wires in it, it's for smart tech people like you and not the dumb poor people who of course have never seen a wire.
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Planet Piss posted:It really comes across as condescending and patronizing when the bougie hipster types I mentioned before use it. And before you ask "what do you mean by hipster", it's the kind of person who'd buy artisinal "pork clouds". Count yourself lucky you've never known anyone like that, for real but i don't hang out with them or listen to their advice on places to eat
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Post poste posted:This is an anti-date rape drug strategy, fwiw. Oh gosh, I just thought she just wanted something with a lid on it. 
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May 1, 2016 23:50
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Making wienerschnitzel or fried chicken with this would own
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cheerfullydrab posted:My point was more that, in the 2010's, mason jars are for cool adult cocktails, not for children drinking iced tea, and I can't precisely figure out when/how/why that happened. My parents have some mason jar cups with handles on them that are older than I am
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This was a thing with the atkins(?) diet so you could have breaded food without the carbs. There's also pork floss which is an Asian thing that is sort of similar and actually tastes pretty good.
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Say Nothing posted:Smoothies, for people who think chewing is too hard. go gently caress yourself, say nothing
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