Comment on If you see a bunch of otherwise normal people with the same odd behavior then you are probably seeing the effects of a marketing campign. The effects can last for years, even decades.

rainrain@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• CosmoNova@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I was scrolling down to actually read some examples and those are it? Seriously?

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  • rainrain@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    A little help would be nice.

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• Lodespawn@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Wait, what’s wrong with mayonnaise?

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  • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Don’t get me fucking started

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  • rainrain@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Nothing. But there’s this segment of the boomer generation that’s notoriously obsessed with it. They put it on everything.

    No doubt they all got exposed to the same tv commercial and it took.

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    • brian@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I don’t love to defend advertising/marketing, but your statement implies that once something has been advertised, organic interest/enjoyment becomes impossible.

      Sure, there might’ve been a big ad push that rocketed mayo to the top of people’s condiment lists. But there are dozens of other things that could also create interest (new foods that pair well with it, new recipes that are shared culturally, loss of a competing product, diet changes)

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    • Lodespawn@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Bizarre, I’ve never encountered this, but maybe I’m just avoiding that segment of people, or the mayo lobby wasn’t as on point in Oz

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      • rainrain@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I know this guy who puts it on jello

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