Posted on 11/08/2019 5:16:32 PM PST by traderrob6
If you ever had any doubt that the average American consumer is amazingly gullible, clueless and can be sold absolutely anything it's brazenly obvious in the new ad campaign being thrust upon us by Land O Lakes.
It's being marketed as new and exciting "Plant Butter". It looks like butter, spreads like butter, tastes like butter except it's non-dairy, IT"S MADE FROM PLANTS, WOW!!!
Margarine has been made from a variety of plant oils over the years ranging from Corn, Rapeseed, Sunflower, Safflower, Coconut, you name it. This particular variety is made from a combination of Canola, Soybean, Olive and Palm Kernel oil. Just a slight variation of 100 other similar margarines currently being offered up out there.
There is one difference from most of the other margarine products out there though....The sweet little premium they charge over the cost average of other brands available ($3.69 vs $2.49 approximately a 48% surcharge)
Well, it is being offered up in some catchy new packaging complete with attractive graphics.
I have little doubt this will be a big winner for Land O Lakes for two significant reasons.....The new trendy narrative the average American consumer is eating up right now (pun intended) is non-animal plant based alternatives and second, at least 50% of the ever so easily deceived population will never make the ridiculously obvious connection.
Made from Lawn Clippings like the Burgers ?
I thought Fleischmann’s corn oil margarine already did this.
“It looks like butter.”
Artificially colored as are all margarines.
I was just thinking that we’ve had corn-oil products that closely resemble butter all my life.
I admire the company’s chutzpah, though.
Absolutely.....it’s just plain old Margarine with a marketing campaign capitalizing on the general ignorance of the American consumer.
It can’t lose.
My burgers come from lawn clippings and alfalfa and corn and various other plant products. In fact I had a cheese burger off the grill, sweet corn, and fries. I feel great gratitude to the cows that made it possible for the cheese and burger. Beef it’s what’s for dinner. I won’t bore anyone about the barely malt, hops, and yeast for an after dinner refreshment.
“I admire the company’s chutzpah, though.”
You know I don’t, it insults my intelligence and that irritates me.
It’s not nice to fool Mother Nature.
“It’s not nice to fool mother nature.”
Followed by earth-shattering kaboom.
As we said in my neighborhood, If you think it’s butter, but it’s SNOT: it’s Chiffon.
My grandparents told me about having to make “artificial butter” yellow by squeezing the color into it.
“First, butter substitutes were outlawed entirely. Then the Supreme Court ruled the law unconstitutional. Then yellow butter substitutes were outlawed. Besides forcing the sale of white margarine (not very appetizing-looking), margarine was sometimes required to be pink or red or even black (even LESS appetizing). Because these laws were enacted state by state, people would cross state lines to obtain yellow margarine or dye packets for the white stuff and smuggle it back to their own states. Then various onerous taxes were applied.”
” The oleomargarine manufactures, realizing that people wanted YELLOW spread, added color capsules that could be stirred into the oleo. While it was illegal for them to sell colored margarine, the law did not prohibit people from coloring it once they bought it. It was kind of messy, but Cudahy (the meat packers) in 1947 got the bright idea of packaging the capsule of food coloring inside a heavy plastic bag that contained the white margarine.”
https://ancestorsinaprons.com/tag/oleo/
Personally I cant believe anyone is dumb enough or has taste buds dead enough to buy Country Crock.
As margarine is fake butter, Country crock is imitation fake butter, its not even margarine. Its mostly water. Seriously. Read the package, its just enough oil whipped into water to create sort of a foam. It tastes like ++++ and all it does is make the bread wet. You can run your toast under the faucet and get the same thing. Its not oily or fatty or anything that one might want, its just wet. You cant cook with it, theres almost no oil so it doesn’t fry anything and it just adds more water instead of fats to other recipes so it just screws up whatever your making.
Its trash floated by magic marketing that stays afloat due to some of the dumbest consumers.
More junk food disguised as health food.
Re the burger, I’m singing Don’t Let The Green Grass Fool You”.
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