Gotta love marketing

[AllentownJake]

So I was at the Grocery Store to pick up some pumpkin bread mix and I saw Purdue Chickens were on sale. The packaging on the Chickens said: ALL NATURAL, NO HORMONES OR STEROIDS used. In small print off to the side it reads: Federal regulations prohibit the use of hormones and steroids in poultry.

:rofl:

I bought a few chickens to freeze. I know the organic anti-factory farm people will jump on me, but I'm unemployed and a full chicken for $5 that normally cost $9 is a deal I can't pass up and it will feed me for two days.

[redqueen]

1. Argh that stuff drives me mad.

Advertising is from the devil. Unless it's good. :P

Is pumpkin bread good? I've been thinking of trying it...

[AllentownJake]

2. Pretty good

For $1.50 and two eggs I can have a breakfast food for two days. Needless to say I'm no baker so this mix and bake for 45 minutes solution has been funding my breakfast for the past two weeks. I also do cranberry, blueberry, and banana.

They charge $6 for one of those loafs at the bakery.

[redqueen]

3. Cool... thanks.

I'll definitely try that then. I'd rather do blueberry muffins than bread though. And I'm just bored with banana bread.

Ever try Irish soda bread? It's super easy... may not be to your taste though.

[AllentownJake]

4. Do they have a mix for it

I'm pretty impaired in the kitchen.

[redqueen]

6. Yeah they might...

I've never bought any msyelf though.

I used to be impaired, too. My mom wasn't so big on the cooking thing.

[AwakeAtLast]

20. Try sweet potato for a change

I don't like sweet potatoes, but I LOVE sweet potato bread. :9

[AllentownJake]

21. Do they make it in a mix?

You have to understand...I can't do anything that isn't premixed. I screw the rest of the stuff up. Give me a box, 2 eggs, 2 tablespoons of oil and an oven...I'm set.

[AwakeAtLast]

24. Oh, no - sorry!

I've never heard of pumpkin bread mix - I thought you could just swap out the pumpkin puree.

[RadiationTherapy]

8. Dark chocolate chips baked into pumpkin bread is awesome.

[AllentownJake]

9. I will have to try that

Thanks!

[redqueen]

11. I'm trying it then.

Nobody has to suggest chocolate to me twice.

[Fuzz]

5. By the way if anyone here is in advertising or marketing... kill yourself.

No, no, no it's just a little thought. I'm just trying to plant seeds. Maybe one day, they'll take root - I don't know. You try, you do what you can. Kill yourself.

Seriously though, if you are, do.

Aaah, no really, there's no rationalization for what you do and you are Satan's little helpers. Okay - kill yourself - seriously. You are the ruiner of all things good, seriously. No this is not a joke, you're going, "there's going to be a joke coming," there's no fucking joke coming. You are Satan's spawn filling the world with bile and garbage. You are fucked and you are fucking us. Kill yourself. It's the only way to save your fucking soul, kill yourself.

Planting seeds. I know all the marketing people are going, "he's doing a joke..." there's no joke here whatsoever. Suck a tail-pipe, fucking hang yourself, borrow a gun from a Yank friend - I don't care how you do it. Rid the world of your evil fucking makinations. Machi... Whatever, you know what I mean.

I know what all the marketing people are thinking right now too, "Oh, you know what Bill's doing, he's going for that anti-marketing dollar. That's a good market, he's very smart."

Oh man, I am not doing that. You fucking evil scumbags!

"Ooh, you know what Bill's doing now, he's going for the righteous indignation dollar. That's a big dollar. A lot of people are feeling that indignation. We've done research - huge market. He's doing a good thing."

Godammit, I'm not doing that, you scum-bags! Quit putting a godamm dollar sign on every fucking thing on this planet!

"Ooh, the anger dollar. Huge. Huge in times of recession. Giant market, Bill's very bright to do that."

God, I'm just caught in a fucking web.

"Ooh the trapped dollar, big dollar, huge dollar. Good market - look at our research. We see that many people feel trapped. If we play to that and then separate them into the trapped dollar..."

How do you live like that? And I bet you sleep like fucking babies at night, don't you?

"What didya do today honey?"

"Oh, we made ah, we made ah arsenic a childhood food now, goodnight." "Yeah we just said you know is your baby really too loud? You know?" "Yeah, you know the mums will love it."

Sleep like fucking children, don't ya, this is your world isn't it?


Bill Hicks RIP

[AllentownJake]

7. Love Bill Hicks

It's a shame Carlin and him aren't around right now...boy they'd be having some fun.

[Stumbler]

14. Thank you for posting that tirade

I did sales for 3 years and finally saw the light. In my opinion sales is the whore-mother of advertising and marketing, as neither would exist without the need to sell something. I only hope some non-Hicks fans discovered him through your post. thanks again

[redqueen]

17. I work in a sales office, and one of my co-workers, a sales guy...

one day he says to me something along the lines of, 'Don't let your kids get into sales... let them be good people and keep their souls.'

[Nikki Stone1]

19. + 1

:)

[SammyWinstonJack]

10. I won't jump on you. We all get by, the best we can.

:hug:

[trof]

12. FUN-NEE!

Nice catch.
:rofl:

[MercutioATC]

13. A local car dealership touts "72 HOUR RETURN POLICY IF YOU AREN'T HAPPY!"

...which is Ohio state law...

[Gwendolyn]

15. If it weren't for marketing, those chickens probably wouldn't have been on sale.

:)

Grocery stores wouldn't have any weekly specials or sales, since the whole reason for them is to herd people into the stores and hopefully get them to buy other stuff while they're there.

Doesn't surprise me that companies put big labels on their food stating the obvious. People are really dumb and need to be shouted at. Or they just can't be bothered to educate themselves. That's part of the reason why there's an obesity problem.

I used to laugh at labels that said things like "no trans fats" when the item never had it to begin with, but people have no idea what they're eating anyway, so they wouldn't know what ingredients should be in the box or can unless it's blasted at the customer. Happens every time there's a new health concern.

[AllentownJake]

16. I'm just laughing at "All Natural"

It is a marketing term to try to make people think they are buying into the organic food craze. It is the same chicken (raised wise) they've been selling for the past 10 years. Only difference is they slapped Natural on it to sell it.

[Gwendolyn]

18. Yes, for sure. And part of the reason they do it is because people are uneducated.

Or willfully ignorant. Those labels convince some people that they're buying up, or buying better, but they're also used to try to hang on to a market that might suddenly shun certain foods after watching the 11 o'clock news. People hear meat is steroid-laden and assume chicken is too.

My fav, and far worse than this natural poultry thing, is what happened after aspartame was exposed as unhealthy. Suddenly yogurt makers started advertising their "natural" products and everyone switched, somehow forgetting that these products are heavy in sugar and that's why they stopped eating it to begin with. Sugar may be natural, but it sure isn't good for you.

[JVS]

22. At costco or sam's club you can get the chickens already cooked. for $5

[AllentownJake]

23. These were bigger than the those

they were about 90 cents a pound after the sell and I can't freeze cooked chicken.