Re:Americans are poorly served by their grocery stores
by bbarnett on Saturday June 04, 2022 @09:03AM
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Interesting analysis.
I think it really extends to everything, others have mentioned pre-made tomato sauces here, also baffling both for price and taste.
When I left home, pre-internet, and started grocery shopping for the first time, I recall wanting spagetti. Well ground meat, that made sense. Pepper. Salt. Noodles.
But until years later, I didn't think about the spagetti sauce I bought. I just kept buying it. It was just there, labelled as a natural ingredient.
You want to make spagetti? Why, there's the sauce!
In retrospect, I think labelling is quite effective in this way. Get 'em when first out of the house, latch on to their inexperience then.
I think it really extends to everything, others have mentioned pre-made tomato sauces here, also baffling both for price and taste.
When I left home, pre-internet, and started grocery shopping for the first time, I recall wanting spagetti. Well ground meat, that made sense. Pepper. Salt. Noodles.
But until years later, I didn't think about the spagetti sauce I bought. I just kept buying it. It was just there, labelled as a natural ingredient.
You want to make spagetti? Why, there's the sauce!
In retrospect, I think labelling is quite effective in this way. Get 'em when first out of the house, latch on to their inexperience then.