I was making my sandwich today and I noticed the sliced Honey Brown Sugar Ham I was using was labelled “Homestyle”. What does that mean? Is it supposed to be like ham made and flavored like I’d make it at home? Is other sliced ham not homestyle? Does it mean simple?
It seems to me homestyle is just a marketing feel good term without real meaning. Anyone else have a different take?
Maybe the ham is cut from a single piece of meat rather than a shaped “loaf” made from several pieces?
Perhaps. I have seen homestyle waffles, homestyle spaghetti sauce, homestyle sausage patties, homestyle bread, homestyle soup etc etc. It I is such a common word in the grocery store but I cannot see a commonality that defines the term.
Natural is a pretty useless descriptor. What is the alternative, unnatural? Supernatural?
Made in a factory by robots from an old robot recipe.
Professional Strength: I guess the other is for amateurs. The term has a seriousness/dangerousness to it that almost implies not to let the kids use the product to clean.
Tuscan: Is this just a highbrow way of saying Italian?
Original/Classic: I have seen new products arrive at the store with the plain flavor labelled as either original or classic. A product cannot be both new and original. It cannot be both new and classic.
Naturally Baked Potato Chips. How does that happen? Lay the slices of potato down on a rock that’s gotten hot in the sun?
“Kid Tested, Mother Approved”
Who exactly was conducting these studies?
REVOLUTIONARY! Hmmm…Really?:dubious:
“Made from the Finest Ingredients”…if you say so, I guess.
No one makes a better product" – several of our competitors might make a product just as good and perhaps for a slightly lower cost – and we’re not going to get into all of the subtleties of what “better” might be – but we stand by our statement and our product.
I’ve been noticing infomercials lately which say something like “we’ll even throw in a second Turnip Twaddler, just pay a separate fee!” My response is something like “so, what, you’d sell me two of them?”
“Homestyle” doesn’t particularly bother me. I don’t know exactly what it means, but it could mean something. I object to “home made” items at restaurants. I always want to ask whose home it was made at.
And what’s wrong with that?
“Quality.” Meaningless without a modifier. Low quality? Probably, but one wouldn’t want to infer.
In advertising:
“virtually,” which means not actually.
“Nothing is better” means “It’s as good as anything else.”
My favorites have always been
“… And it costs no more!” No more than what? :dubious: 
and
“New and improved!” Hey, you know that stuff we’ve been telling you to buy for the last thirty years? Well, forget it. It’s real crap! :mad:
Well, most of it is consumed in someone’s home. I wish both supermarkets and restaurants would go lighter on the adjectives.
“Meaningless Advertising Words”
–all of them
I may have mentioned it in another rant somewhere, but foods made from “real ingredients” are just foods, right? Wouldn’t that include just about any manufactured/produced food?
What I really hate, though, is when brands make up some special qualification that only they have. Tonight, I was looking into moisturizers online. Neutrogena moisturizers are the only ones with super-amazing Helioplex https://www.neutrogena.com/tips-tools/helioplex-technology.html. L’Oreal is the only one to have Pro-Retinol A, which I’m supposed to believe is special or better than retinol. https://www.lorealparisusa.com/beauty-magazine/skin-care/anti-aging/best-skin-care-products-with-pro-retinol-a.aspx
Yeah, you’re the only one with that because you made it up. That doesn’t make it any better, and it doesn’t mean anything.
Artisan is another meaningless term. I suppose every product was first crafted by some artist somewhere.
Signature products taste better because someone has scribbled their name on the packaging.
Simple seems to be gaining popularity. But it is so simple why not just make it yourself?
I like my food to be bold. None of that cowardly flavoring for me.
“Artisanal” is annoying to me too.
“Clean food” is something else that drives me crazy. No, I want DIRTY food, mmmkay?