"No, see, that's the trick! We make it sound like something no sane human would want to eat, give it a name that has a mouthfeel of decaying bootleather and broken glass, and then when they try it as a joke, bam we've got 'em."
Maybe there'll be PepsiQ sauce on the shelves in a couple years in response to this, but this was definitely just a stunt and not a legitimate product offering
"No, see, that's the trick! We make it sound like something no sane human would want to eat, give it a name that has a mouthfeel of decaying bootleather and broken glass, and then when they try it as a joke, bam we've got 'em."
I believe this was also McDonald's recent strategy with the Grimace shake. Yeah everyone is making videos about how it kills you and the Grimace is an SCP, but they still bought the shake. They still ingested the purple goo
Grimace still the worst name for anything food related.
Worse than head cheese?
My family is from Pennsylvania, but I'm not. I familiar with the product. I don't know if I ever ate it as a kid, but it's horrifying to look at and I hope I never ate any.
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minor incidentexpert in a dying fieldnjRegistered Userregular
Head cheese might actually be worse to look at than the name implies, and that's an accomplishment.
if this is how you folks make art it's fucking depressing
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JedocIn the scupperswith the staggers and jagsRegistered Userregular
The fucked up thing is that "brawn" means the same thing, and is a much less retch-worthy word. Points for honesty over marketing savvy, I guess.
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minor incidentexpert in a dying fieldnjRegistered Userregular
Head cheese is like if someone took the coarseness dial on the meat grinder at the spam factory and cranked it to “I wanna see whole entire assholes and eyeballs in my meat blob”
if this is how you folks make art it's fucking depressing
minor incidentexpert in a dying fieldnjRegistered Userregular
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That's the smart move!
I had never heard of it before I started working at a supermarket deli like 20-something years ago. Had to try to stifle a retch every time someone had me slice some of it.
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if this is how you folks make art it's fucking depressing
I had never heard of it before I started working at a supermarket deli like 20-something years ago. Had to try to stifle a retch every time someone had me slice some of it.
How many times was that over how many months?
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minor incidentexpert in a dying fieldnjRegistered Userregular
I had never heard of it before I started working at a supermarket deli like 20-something years ago. Had to try to stifle a retch every time someone had me slice some of it.
How many times was that over how many months?
Oh god, often enough to be just the worst, but infrequent enough to never be able to actually get used to the shit. It was always an unpleasant surprise.
if this is how you folks make art it's fucking depressing
I don't typically eat it, but head cheese is fine. Kind of a Christmas thing around here, and you usually see a high quality version of it. Eat it with mustard!
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TonkkaSome one in the club tonightHas stolen my ideas.Registered Userregular
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I believe How to Drink made this and a few other Doctails and concluded they were all horrid
I believe this was also McDonald's recent strategy with the Grimace shake. Yeah everyone is making videos about how it kills you and the Grimace is an SCP, but they still bought the shake. They still ingested the purple goo
Herman munster cheese
Madison square garden MSG
Reggie bush's beans
Velveeta and cholula i do not have a name for this one
Worse than head cheese?
My family is from Pennsylvania, but I'm not. I familiar with the product. I don't know if I ever ate it as a kid, but it's horrifying to look at and I hope I never ate any.
I had never heard of it before I started working at a supermarket deli like 20-something years ago. Had to try to stifle a retch every time someone had me slice some of it.
How many times was that over how many months?
Oh god, often enough to be just the worst, but infrequent enough to never be able to actually get used to the shit. It was always an unpleasant surprise.