What is Jeopardy, Chimera?
Speaking of glass houses Biggirl, have you figured out whether you have a prostate?
You reminded me of an old Roseanne episode where she conned Darlene’s Home Economics class into cooking them dinner.
HS Girl: What kind of salad dressing would you like, Mr. Conner?
Dan: (confused) I don’t know. Nobody’s ever asked me that before.
Roseanne: Oh, you’re just confusing him. Orange or Red, Dan?
Dan: Oh! Orange.
Roseanne: It’s the 1,000 Island in the fridge over there.
Yeah, that was embarrassing. Thanks for bringing it up.
P.S. It wasn’t me, it was my then landlord. She’s a nice lady. It was cervical cancer she had, not prostrate.
Well, words mean things.
Somebody has read 1984 once too often I see …
… or maybe it was Alice’s Adventures
Flavors of operating system or subatomic particles are not less asinine than shaving creams. None of them should be doing that. I say we sue them until they stop. And go after Apple for trying to force Funnest on us while we’re at it.
I think this is specifically a referral to the common recipe instruction to add something ‘to taste’. In other words, they’re not going to give you a specific amount of salt/pepper/cheese/whatever to add, just add as much as you’d like. It’s most commonly used for salt, paper and other late stage, condimentish additions to a recipe.
So, the chef in this case, added flavor (where flavor is jokingly being treated as a single item) in keeping with her excellent professional taste – the implication being that it’s not just tasteless frozen crap but that a chef has seasoned it appropriately. It’s probably still tasteless frozen crap, and the major ingredient of ‘flavor’ is probably ‘salt’, but hey, I’m not saying they’re honest, just that they’re not as grammatically out to lunch as it might appear.
Adding stuff “to taste” is a fairly common phrase. Have you never looked in a cookbook?
It’s shorthand for “according to your personal preferences” (ie., taste).
ETA: Sominabitch! I knew I should have checked page 2 as well. Damn you jacquilynne!
The lady is NOT adding salt to taste or pepper to taste, as I stated in the OP. She said she added flavor to taste, that’s why the frozen crap is delicious. How, exactly, is that done?
With salt. Lots and lots of salt.
That’s the part that’s supposed to be funny. She added the mythical ingredient “flavor” as if it were just one thing that all the other companies don’t bother with.
Haven’t you ever looked at the ingredients to things and seen “Natural and Artificial Flavors”?
See, they’re missing the boat there. Instead of just telling you to add flavor to taste and leaving you to figure out how, they could be offering you little bottles of flavor to add.
Ah, it’s “commercial funny” - as in, completely lame and stupid. That’s so steeped!
Now, now, don’t lump all of us together into one horrifying glob. There’s a difference between account staff, market researchers, etc and the creatives who actually write the ads. I’m willing to bet that the copywriters who worked on these ads weep when they see how they turn out.
Keep in mind, huge agencies have a gauntlet that an ad has to run through before it gets produced. The client and about five levels of people (or more) will take your clever, well-written idea and mangle it just a little at each level. By the time it’s on the air, it may well have lost all meaning.
I agree–every word counts. And it pains me to see commercials that waste them.
Frindle, perhaps?
I don’t understand a single thing the OP is saying.
Bachelor Chow! Now with flavor!
My favorite abuse of language in marketing showed up in an article a couple of years ago about all the pizza chains and their “hand-tossed” varieties. Turns out exactly none of them are actually hand-tossed.
Sorry - couldn’t let this one slip by…Snicker.
The one ad for that scam “Home Based Business” company, in which the black guy says, and I fucking quote,
“Last year, I made over a hundred thousand dollars a year…” (The quote doesn’t always start with “Last Year,” but the full quote does.)
Well, with a long-term track record like that, I can’t NOT call!
Joe