Blue Apron, Struggling to Woo Investors, Lowers Price Range for IPO

Re:Blue Apron, Struggling to Woo Investors, Lowers Price Ran... by ghaff on Wednesday June 28, 2017 @01:55PM (#14656486)

You can buy tomato paste in a squeeze tube. Great for that sort of thing. :-)

As I said in a comment yesterday, I suspect that Blue Apron deliberately puts somewhat oddball ingredients, often in small quantities, in their recipes precisely to discourage people from thinking "Oh, I can just pick these up at the grocery store."

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Re:Blue Apron, Struggling to Woo Investors, Lowers Price Ran... by jghn on Wednesday June 28, 2017 @09:36PM (#14660108)

As someone who orders the occasional BA shipment for precisely the oddball ingredients, that's fine by me. I'm still using something that I normally wouldn't. And if I find that it doesn't add any benefit to the dish, I'll not bother with it the next time.

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Re:Blue Apron, Struggling to Woo Investors, Lowers Price Ran... by ghaff on Wednesday June 28, 2017 @10:50PM (#14660408)

If I were around for weeks at a time more consistently, I'd probably use these services more. I actually like the idea even if I know I'm paying 2x relative to picking out a new recipe and going to the store.

I now know what ramps are for example. (They're pretty much scallions :-))

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