Fruit
Selling sad produce
In grocery stores, fresh produce such as bananas and tomatoes often goes to waste if it's become a "loose single." Shoppers think it's damaged or imperfect.German researchers have come up with a way to address this problem: make shoppers think the produce is feeling sad because it hasn't been bought.
This is achieved simply by displaying an anthropomorphized picture of sad produce above the singles.
The produce has to be sad. Happy fruits and vegetables don't motivate shoppers.
Also, making produce sad works better than offering a price discount, because shoppers often assume discounted food must be bad.
More info: Anthropomorphic Sad Expressions Reduce Waste of 'Single' Imperfect Food
via Book of Joe
Posted By: Alex - Thu Dec 12, 2024 -
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Category: Food, Fruit, Bananas, Advertising, Experiments, Psychology
The Great Mao Zedong Mango Cult
Read the full BBC article here.
Purchase your souvenir here.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Jan 13, 2023 -
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Category: Cult Figures and Artifacts, Dictators, Tyrants and Other Harsh Rulers, Souvenirs, Mementos, and Tchotchkes, Fruit, 1960s
Sato Nishiki cherries
Recently a box of 40 Sato Nishiki cherries, grown in Yamagata, sold for close to $10,000. More info from SoraNews24.com:That's $250 per cherry.
SoraNews24 also notes that, when they sampled some Sato Nishiki cherries, "our team of writers had trouble telling them apart from regular supermarket ones."
Posted By: Alex - Tue Jan 10, 2023 -
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Category: Overpriced Merchandise, Fruit
Grapefruit Diet Ad
"With success, comes class!"
Posted By: Paul - Sat Nov 26, 2022 -
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Category: Food, Fruit, Advertising, 1980s, Dieting and Weight Loss
Apple Peel Divination
According to old tradition, if you peel an apple and throw the peel over your left shoulder, it'll form the initial on the ground of your future one true love. But this only works on Halloween.
The Tennessean - Oct 13, 1949
The love divination spell may be aided by reciting either one of the following poems:
By this paring let me discover
The initial letter of my true lover.
Or:
Paring, paring, long and green,
Tell my Fate for Halloween.
More info: The Halloween Encyclopedia
Posted By: Alex - Wed Oct 26, 2022 -
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Category: Predictions, Fruit, Halloween
Rengo fruit for obesity
A "remedy for obesity" marketed circa 1906. It supposedly was made from the "Rengo fruit". In Nostrums and Quackery (1912) the American Medical Association offered this analysis:Rengo has been analyzed and, according to Dr. Kebler's analysis, contains: Thyroid gland, Poke root, Cascara, Cassia fistula.
That the prolonged administration of thyroid gland will sometimes bring about a marked reduction in weight is true but its use even under skilled medical supervision is fraught with danger. It is little less than criminal that ignorant quacks of Kellogg's type should be permitted to distribute indiscriminately drugs that have the potency for harm that is possessed by the thyroid preparations.
source: flickr
Posted By: Alex - Thu Jun 10, 2021 -
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Category: Patent Medicines, Nostrums and Snake Oil, Fruit, 1900s
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