First off, we have this:
Because nothing says "handmade by skilled craftsmen" more than prepackaged pizza dough in a plastic tube, made by a huge food conglomerate, and stacked en masse on shelves in every grocery store in North America.
Next is this picture, taken on approaching Atlantic City. Where, apparently, the casino buildings are always standing erect and ready.
Back to the artisanal crap, we have this generic package from a generic warehouse club, where they apparently can't decide if their generic cookie of the month is blueberry, cranberry, or macadamia. Unless it has all three.
And then there's Australia, where you can build an entire pharmacy from artisanal components!
And lastly, we have this non-artisanal, but remarkably bad, juxtaposition of news headlines:
13 comments:
I love small children but I just can't eat a whole one at one sitting.
lol I love your hate of artisan I was thinking of that today when at uni I was drinking a bottle of water that said it was artisan :( FAIL!!!
"I'm Marvin, and I'd love to show you my gardens..."
Look, man, you think it's easy, meticulously handcrafting half the consumer products in the world? And what thanks do I get for busting my ass all day every day? A bunch of snarky comments on a medical blog. Maybe I should start my own blog where I complain all the time about neurologists. Why the hell not, I'll just tell all the little kids in the western U.S. that they can't have any more of that ice cream that their mommy buys them at Walmart because I'm too busy blogging about neurologists to make it for them. I'm sure they'll understand.
Apparently, not only does the FDA not regulate usage of the term Artisan, but the very term is in the eye of the beholder...
http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/cdrh_docs/pdf3/P030028d.pdf
A bottle of water is one of the few things which can be artesianal, if the water came from an artesian well.
You know, if you missuse a word consistantly, you change the meaning.
Look what happened to decimate. How often do you see it used correctly? It actually means to reduce a population by 10%.
LMAO @ Moose!!!
You know, if you missuse a word consistantly, you change the meaning.
e.g. flammable vs. inflammable
Imagine a population completely decimated by inflammable material.
Walmart has artisanal ice cream?
Sounds like the one known as The Artisan needs an artisanal chill pill.
Paging Dr. Grumpy to commenter #4.
I can't help but notice that "artisanal" ends in "anal."
What does this say about me?
Artisanal. With emphasis on the anal.
I'm not sure we have all that stupidity in the UK. Sure we've got our own brands of stupidity, but not artisan(al). Well, not that sort, anyway.
One of the vendors at the local farmers market has recently started labelling her products Artisan. Given that she makes granola, salad dressing and barbecue sauce by hand in small batches I thought I should report on this proper use of the term.
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