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As for the topic of cooking, I am not a very good cook haha. I usually just kinda experiment with basic stuff. I have made my ramen more appealing to me though; basically I make it as normal, but I add a bit of Worcestershire to the water for flavor, and when it is done cooking I add a bit of butter and Parmesan cheese and it tastes really good haha. |
I shop at...normal chain grocery stores. They sell bananas and grapes by the bunch/bag, you can't split them up. There's some other produce like that too - asparagus tied together, bags of snap beans, bags of lettuce, all those things you have to buy all or nothing. And some are half and half depending on where you go like apples; some stores sell apples in bags so you have to buy the entire bag, and some sell them loose so you get your own bag and choose how many you want.
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You're just not looking at the right grocery stores, then! I can buy almost all of those things individually at my grocers here! Except asparagus. That stuff is always banded together. Or maybe it's not common there because that type of service is no longer expected of the grocer in your area? I know full well it's very much expected around here.
And most of the stores here sell apples both individually and in bags... it really depends on the supplier they use for them. Of course, a lot of that stuff is grown pretty close to here. |
I've been to every grocery store around here, that's how they all are. It's not a "me being dumb and not LOOKING GOOD ENOUGH" thing , it's just how things are here.
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Goodness sakes we're having a potluck. :( And there's only little kids coming :cccccc
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Honestly, you can just break one bananer' off of the bunch, though it's more of a politeness thing than anything. More often than not, the result looks messy, which drives customers away (subconsciously).
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There's this really nice produce place that's local to my area where everything is loose but for some reason they still make you buy in whatever arbitrary number they give you. Like if you just want one apple but they're selling 5 for 2 bucks, you better want 5 apples or else. XD;
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I don't buy produce, but I know my local supermarket makes you buy 3 or 4 of an item in order to take advantage of a discount. Which sucks.
Actually, we don't have a good selection of supermarkets in our area... we have the filthy discount one, the "meh" one, and the "living hell called Wal-Mart Supercenter" one. And that's another reason I hate being away from college... there was an excellent regional supermarket chain by my school called Harris Teeter that I felt was an excellent place to shop. |
We've got one grocery store that isn't a chain one... I actually there are only two or three of them. It used to be really good til the owner got in debt elsewhere and now most of the produce looks bad and the meat is the same. Plus the jacked up the prices.
Surprisingly the one here that only sells generic brand stuff has super good produce. It's where I go if I need something quickly. I need more coffee. :( |
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And in some places I noticed they place newspapers and magazines face down because if you physically flip it over you're more inclined to buy it. God these marketing tactics are really intimidating |
I'm more than happy for marketing techniques to work on me. If people go to all the time and effort to make that happen and trick me into buying something, then they deserve my money lol
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Andy, your comment reminds me of something P. T. Barnum once said. Something about suckers.
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People tend to think of marketers as strategic masterminds. Keep in mind that those people that went into advertising because they couldn't decide what major to pick while they partied through school are the same people that are choosing how to advertise to you. They're not that sneaky.
I do let one advertising campaign consciously sway me though; I always buy Coke products when I have the choice (unless Pepsi Max is a choice because Coke doesn't have an equivalent for that), because 3 times now they have given me free stuff for no reason at all other than they wanted my loyalty. |
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I want free stuff when I buy Coke... While I wouldn't go as far to say 'world's greatest drink', I do prefer it mightily over Pepsi, which is too sweet for my liking.
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I personally think pepsi tastes better but on the other hand coke advertises more so it persuades the potential buyer to buy coke instead. Except the pepsi throwback soda that was what reeled in more old school soda drinkers.
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And then the third time we just got a knock on our door over the holidays and a woman gave us a bag full of cans of Coke and said "Happy holidays from Coca-Cola!" and drove off in her Coke-branded truck, haha. |
I don't drink Pepsi because it's too sweet but as a rule I really dislike Pepsi's advertising stance. All their commercials involve a direct reference to Coke so it always feels like the only way they know how to get sales is to put Coke down where everyone can see it. (I think their most recent commercial is yet another one where a Coke truck driver knocks back a Pepsi with a Pepsi truck driver because his truck breaks down.) I hate companies that stoop to that level whether it's effective or not. It always just makes me think their marketing teams are so uninventive that the only way to get noticed is to piggyback on another brand.
I do enjoy Coke's free stuff though. I have no interesting stories like Toujours but I get a lot of iCoke rewards over the course of a year so I get plenty of free stuff just for drinking what I'd normally drink. :3 |
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That's the kind of scenario I dream of. A full bag of Coca Cola cans for doing absolutely nothing at all? Jealous isn't even the word. I personally prefer Coca Cola over Pepsi. Might just be because that's what I've grown up drinking. Diet Coke has a nostalgic taste for me because as a kid that's all I was allowed to drink since my parents didn't usually let me drink regular coke. Got into regular coke as a teenager and now it's my favourite soda, despite the fact it's incredibly unhealthy. Edit: @Lightning, I totally agree with you. I remember when I first saw this commercial I both laughed and raged at its stupidity: Spoiler:
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Well, to be fair, it's not like Diet Coke is that healthy either. :P It just has less calories because it uses artificial sweeteners instead of sugar, iirc. All of them are bad for you in excess but I always find that I feel a lot worse after drinking a Coke Zero (can't even get past the Diet taste in Diet Coke XD) than Coke. My body just doesn't process the chemicals in it the same way or something. I may gain more weight from drinking Coke over the Diet flavours but it's healthier for me on the whole if I ignore calories. :s
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Every "healthy" alternative to soda that I've tasted has been inferior and not worth it. The only decent diet soda is diet Mountain Dew, and that's only cause it actually tastes like regular Mountain Dew. There's really no point in doing that though, it's like buying a Mac when all you're gonna do is run Windows.
And the best soda is Dr Pepper, trufax. |
Dr. Pepper is great because you can mix it with cheap vodka and it masks the terrible taste.
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I tried Dr Pepper for the first time last year and I don't like it at all. :( Honestly, the only soft drink I like is Coke so that probably affects my enjoyment somewhat ("why should I buy this drink when I could buy Coke for the same price or cheaper??") but it also just tasted weird. u_u
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