Silly Saturday...

Subject: Commercialism’s psychological manipulation

Victims: Us??

My husband picked up a pizza today. Mushroom, onion, and green pepper is our old standby.

I accidently noticed on my can of Coke, the words “NOW More Delicious.”  

I pointed to it and said, “You see that.  It’s more delicious.  Now what’s that mean?”

He said, “They added more sugar.”

I said, turning the can, “No, it’s sugar free.”

He said, “They took the sugar out.”

I said, “How can they take something out that was never in?  How can you add less than zero?”

So we continued back and forth with the jokes, when he finally said, “Well, is it more delicious??”  I said, “Yes,” turning the can back around, with a silly grin on my face, “and here’s the proof. It says so!”

But all jokes aside, how does/can a product make such a claim?  I mean, there is no way to prove something is “more delicious.”  At least with Raisin Bran, you can count the freakin' frackin' “Even more (two scoops of) raisins”. But with those subjective type slogans, let’s face it, it’s pure “power of suggestion.”  And commercialism knows it. Seriously, has anyone EVER bought something because it’s “Now more delicious?”  Pleeeeeease! 🙄 Do you know of any such person?

What percent of the people care about, or even notice (other than accidently), these products' taste suggestions?  Do you agree that it's a case of "power of suggestion?"  Are people that gullible/easily manipulated by such claims?

(By Primordial “New and Improved!” Soup) 😁