Secret PSYOPS! Really! Man I love headlines around here <3
Also, if âIvy⌠[was] named the industryâs 2015 Egg Person of the YearâŚâ is it fair to say that he is The Eggman?
You know youâre really onto something provocative when industry lobby boards feel threatened enough to try to get you shut down. This is a powerful example of FOIA activism, Iâd love to see more of this type of thing.
Not a surprise. The people who scream âFREE MARKET!!â are usually the ones who want protection when the free market turns against them.
You know what they say, âyou canât make an omelette without breaking some legs.â
At some point during the summer it was âPoultry awareness or something like thatâ day and almost following me on the radio at various retail locations was this event saying how wonderful chicken production was. This was in Canada however I do wonder if it had similar origins.
Wasnât there a legal challenge for their âJust Mayoâ product somewhere because it didnât have eggs? I think Unilever/Hellman sued them because you canât call it Mayo without eggs, but I think it got dropped.
All this does is make me want to buy the mayo and cookie dough and see what all the hubbub is about.
To be precise, transparent, free markets are such a good idea that whole industries exist to undermine them. The problem of capitalism is not, in fact, the free market, but the fact that hoarders of capital can prevent them from taking place - and that applies to the free market of ideas as well as commodities.
Obligatory Simpsons:
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Wasnât there a legal challenge for their âJust Mayoâ product somewhere because it didnât have eggs? I think Unilever/Hellman sued them because you canât call it Mayo without eggs, but I think it got dropped. [/quote]
Unilever dropped the suit, but itâs still up in the air if regulatory agencies will get involved (last I heard, anyway). However, they had one good defense in that the FDA only has an official definition for âmayonnaiseâ and not âmayoâ.
It did NOT get dropped. In fact, the verdict just came in that theyâre not allowed to call it âJust Mayoâ because of that pesky little egg requirement. One could argue that âjust mayoâ instead of âjust mayonnaiseâ covers it, but of course it was also argued that EVERYONE KNOWS mayo is the same thing as saying mayonnaise.
Like many others, the lawsuit made me seek out and try Just Mayo. Turns out, itâs the best âmayoâ available commercially that Iâve ever tried, especially including what passes for Hellmanâs these days.
edited to add: my memory failed me a bit. Itâs the FDA, not a lawsuit, that has prevailed:
Just Mayo maker warned by FDA that mayonnaise has to have eggs to use that name.
Because the government should have an âegg boardâ, of course. What does anyone expect to happen, but protectionism and regulatory capture? Itâs an immutable consequence of government.
Mayonnaise is the expressed back-zit pus of Satan. Why anyone would go to the trouble of creating an artificial version of such a substance, except as part of a remake of The Fly, I have no idea.
Alright. I have got to try it out. Hellmanâs sucks these days.
ok, donât call it MAYO, call it SOMETHING ELSEO
My stomach actually churns.
things I learned from BoingBoing today - every major company operates using âPSYOPSâ. Half of the list up there (literally everything before âlobby people to talk nice about chickensâ) is normal SOP for companies.
How to use mayo:
- Spread mayo on bread
- Throw bread in trash
Iâm all for alternatives to Mayo, but it does seem like you need to have some sort of requirement for what constitutes something labeled mayonnaise, which is pretty simple at itâs core - eggs, vinegar, and oil. I think saying that they need to contain eggs makes sense, but maybe âegg-less Mayoâ would be good enough.
FWIW, I love mayonnaise and itâs delicious. Bunch of wrong-knowers in this thread.
