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pseudanonymous posted:This has been going on all over Asia for some time, in some countries, KFC is a big deal. Weird American brands that we consider trash-tier are like big deal restaurants in random countries. I thought a while about what the "still chain restaurant, but people are more likely to see it as an acceptable date location" comparison was
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Some of those chains, not all mind you, purposefully operate to a higher standard than their American counterparts to capitalize on the "prestige" aspect of being a foreign cultural import.
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GolfHole posted:mr sub, jugo juice, and van houtte are all lovely crappy C-tier brands that any loving idiot can get a license for in about 20 minutes For those who arent in Canada: MTY almost exclusively deals in shopping/strip mall food court outlets, like 12 brands total including those 3. Theyre not Tim Hortons or McDonalds or A&W where they dont need to go to the franchise show. They are most definitely AT the franchise show, trying to get as many prospects to buy in as they can.
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Frank Frank posted:I feel bad for Nathen. Sure, he's a weirdo and a buzzword quipping idiot but he clearly loved and cared deeply about GarfieldEats. Nah I don't think he loves or cares deeply about Garfield. This all seems like a bizarre act. Remember how he basically said gently caress Garfield, it's Scooby-Doo time with zero reasoning or forewarning? I'm also not sure what exactly constitutes love and concern from someone who writes a poem professing their love to loving Viacom of all things. I'm sure for him it all comes down to "here's a thing that makes a zillion dollars, I want some, I will do whatever it takes no matter how ridiculous to do that" so he's leaning into this sex-deprived Willy Wonka-esque madman character except he doesn't understand anything about how to actually run a business. If he believes any of the corporate jargon he's spitting then he's truly a fool. It's exhausting to think about for too long honestly.
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I've had KFC in Japan and it's actually good. Not top tier or high end food but it's a million times better than in America where it's barely edible.
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Frank Frank posted:KFC is a huge deal in Japan on Christmas. They sell these holiday meal things that sell out months in advance. The KFC Christmas branding campaign is one of the greatest in marketing history and I'm not being hyperbolic https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cnn.com/travel/amp/kfc-christmas-tradition-japan/index.html
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Seth Pecksniff posted:It sounds like he's having some sort of breakdown because wtf I am curious what's going on with Scooby Doo Eats since it seems like he'd want to be plugging it more now as his only surviving business. So I went to their site and it looks like that license may have expired, based on their splashscreen? Like maybe he only got it for a year for a trial run or something? 
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A man without a weird cartoon mascot. You hate to see it. Edit: I'm still laughing at the fact that the Scooby Doo Eats lasagna is still called "Big Cow Lasagna". It made little sense when attached to Garfield but at least Garfield loves lasagna. Frank Frank fucked around with this message at 00:15 on Dec 27, 2021 |
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Dec 27, 2021 00:06
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Knormal posted:My take is he's not going full in on calling Viacom evil copyright-monsters because he hopes if he placates to them enough he can get the license back at some point. And that's why half the runtime of his farewell video was spent sucking up to them. Probably more like a C&D+NDA. There's no way he would hold back on spilling the tea otherwise. And also- excuse me? Have we forgotten about a little thing called egeez?
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Frank Frank posted:A man without a weird cartoon mascot. You hate to see it. It was found out that he didn't even make the lasagnas, just slap a sticker on 'em and send 'em over. That said, 'Big Cow Lasagna' is the kind of dry, sterile and safe marketing you'd see on the names of store-brand products at Costco and such, that come from a single frozen food provider which is exactly where the lasagnas were coming from. Big cow lasagna was the sterile, safe name the frozen lasagna company gave to its product (it makes sense when you remember the meat was supposed to be 'cowboy cut' ) and Nathen couldn't even be bothered to garf it up a little.
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Zefiel posted:Big cow lasagna was the sterile, safe name the frozen lasagna company gave to its product (it makes sense when you remember the meat was supposed to be 'cowboy cut' ) and Nathen couldn't even be bothered to garf it up a little. There's no way this is the case. It fits too perfectly with the bizarre names he gave everything else. No food service supplier like GFS or Sysco or whatever is going to use the word "cow" in describing any of the products they sell. It's always "choice, prime cut, grade A, grass-fed beef". This may just be a North American thing but they always, always specifically go out of their way to avoid naming the animal the meat comes from unless it's poultry.
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Futanari Damacy posted:There's no way this is the case. It fits too perfectly with the bizarre names he gave everything else. No food service supplier like GFS or Sysco or whatever is going to use the word "cow" in describing any of the products they sell. It's always "choice, prime cut, grade A, grass-fed beef". This may just be a North American thing but they always, always specifically go out of their way to avoid naming the animal the meat comes from unless it's poultry. Yeah I think the lasagnas were found but were not named Big Cow by the manufacturer. I could be misremembering though.
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Futanari Damacy posted:No food service supplier like GFS or Sysco or whatever is going to use the word "cow" in describing any of the products they sell. It's always "choice, prime cut, grade A, grass-fed beef". This may just be a North American thing but they always, always specifically go out of their way to avoid naming the animal the meat comes from unless it's poultry. You do realize that "beef" just means "cow meat", right? Not even 99% of Americans would be stupid enough to not realize where beef comes from.
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They were named that by him because of the cow on US Acres, the other Jim Davis cartoon where Jon's parents live on a farm
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:You do realize that "beef" just means "cow meat", right? Not even 99% of Americans would be stupid enough to not realize where beef comes from. Yeah but the point is it's why they sell pork and not pig. One sounds better than the other and it makes no sense that a food supplier knows less about marketing food than Nathen Mazri. Like, there isn't a world where it's possible so I don't know where the shadow of a doubt is coming from.
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Futanari Damacy posted:Yeah but the point is it's why they sell pork and not pig. No, they call it pork because pig meat is called pork and has been for centuries. There's no big deception happening. Nathen is stupid but not for the reasons you're claiming.
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:They call it pork because pig meat is called pork and has been for centuries. There's no big deception happening. Christ you're dumb. Do you see 'pig chops' on the label in the store? Pig sausage? No ya loving don't. The labels will say pork. That's all they're telling you
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Frank Frank posted:Yeah I think the lasagnas were found but were not named Big Cow by the manufacturer. I could be misremembering though. I think you're right, it was just a label slapped on an already existing product
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I can sympathize with a gay man who had to abandon the religion he was raised on because it's anti-gay and now he's struggling to find a new source of meaning and purpose in his life, but Nathen is just going about everything the wrong way.
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:No, they call it pork because pig meat is called pork and has been for centuries. There's no big deception happening. Nathen is stupid but not for the reasons you're claiming. It's not about deception in this case, it's just about word choice norms in North American (and beyond?) marketing. I promise you people who enjoy beef are under no illusions that what they are eating is cow. It's just weird and alienating to say "COW BURGERS".
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sharknado slashfic posted:I think you're right, it was just a label slapped on an already existing product It's made by something called Winona's Harvest in Ontario which also sells this thing https://www.thestar.com/local-stone...perfection.html quote:After purchasing the company from the Pretto family roughly 20 years ago, Rimkus has spent the last several years shifting the focus from tortellini and ravioli to lasagna. The brand now offers several lasagna varieties, from the traditional bolognese to the innovative butter chicken and plant-based options like vegan spinach ricotta and vegan traditional bolognese.
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Cow is the animal. Beef is the butchered / processed meat product of the cow. Are you from another planet?
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It's a good troll to pretend to be completely clueless about universally accepted naming conventions for foodstuffs, I'll give you that.
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*Looks at 'Laughing Cow' brand cheese* That's... That's NOT actually the cow!
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I imagine the license for off-putting, square-jawed Scottish cow-pie conisseuer and "The Dandy" mascot Desperate Dan is pretty cheap, and his DC Thompson stable mate Oor Wullie is already licensed to at least one fish and chip shop, so this could be a new chapter. 
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I forgot he made Scooby Doo hot dogs
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Disco Pope posted:I imagine the license for off-putting, square-jawed Scottish cow-pie conisseuer and "The Dandy" mascot Desperate Dan is pretty cheap, and his DC Thompson stable mate Oor Wullie is already licensed to at least one fish and chip shop, so this could be a new chapter. is he desperate because he's required to finish the pie for some reason? not sure where the term applies to the dude
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Disco Pope posted:I imagine the license for off-putting, square-jawed Scottish cow-pie conisseuer and "The Dandy" mascot Desperate Dan is pretty cheap, and his DC Thompson stable mate Oor Wullie is already licensed to at least one fish and chip shop, so this could be a new chapter. If he moves to Scotland to start Desperate DanEATS I'll be first in line 🙏
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Jesus people. English is unique in having different names for the animal and its meat because of the Norman Invasion, the famers raising the animals kept using the Germanic-root names for the animals, but when serving them to their French rulers they called the meat by the Latin-root French names the Normans were expecting. There's no grand conspiracy to hide where meat comes from, it's just a quirk of English. Nathan named it Big Cow Lasagna because he's weird. That's it.
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Uhm, I feel like the popper-powered digital age failson knows more about what farmed food should be called than some seventh generation farmer or whatever. It's not beyond a reasonable doubt so this means they're equal possibilities, and in fact, what I'm saying is the case.
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Actually I would like to hide my meat.
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im saint germain posted:is he desperate because he's required to finish the pie for some reason? not sure where the term applies to the dude He really wants to gently caress, but in a needy, sad way.
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looking at this page it looks like the lasagna was manufactured by a local place that does only lasagna; full-time in fact i kind of wish i had tried this lasagna now https://www.penguinfresh.com/products/big-cow-lasagna-garfield-eats Manufactured by: Winona's Harvest, Hamilton, ON Hamilton brothers make lasagna, just lasagna https://www.thespec.com/life/food-wine/2013/05/08/hamilton-brothers-make-lasagna-just-lasagna.html nothing on their stock menu resembles "big cow" branding ergo nathen did indeed come up with big cow for his cat restaurant-themed lasagna
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Knormal posted:Jesus people. English is unique in having different names for the animal and its meat because of the Norman Invasion, the famers raising the animals kept using the Germanic-root names for the animals, but when serving them to their French rulers they called the meat by the Latin-root French names the Normans were expecting. There's no grand conspiracy to hide where meat comes from, it's just a quirk of English. Nathan named it Big Cow Lasagna because he's weird. That's it. Is it that unique? Polish does the same thing.
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Winona's Big Brown Beefer
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Futanari Damacy posted:Nah I don't think he loves or cares deeply about Garfield. This all seems like a bizarre act. He loved Garfield enough to write about it in his book, I'm pretty sure. GOD, it's like none of you guys do the required reading Futanari Damacy posted:It's exhausting to think about for too long honestly. This is true
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Rinkles posted:Is it that unique? Polish does the same thing.
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I loved you I fed you and now it's time to leave you this is the last Monday we'll hate together, and we'll always have the tissue boxes
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