First we have one of many (and you guys send in a lot of similar stuff, so I guess it's everywhere) containers of edible weeds, which were grown from dirt using sunlight, water, and photosynthesis, only to have some clown claim it to be artisanal:
Next, apparently any idiot driving a car is, at least to Geico insurance, a "skilled artisan."
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What do you with stale bread? These days you label it as "artisanal stuffing" and toss it in the discount bin:
Likewise, when those artisanal diet foods don't sell like hotcakes, you mark them down and hope some sucker takes them home.
Now even TV listings are artisanal, I guess
Apparently WAY too many people are answering "strongly agree" on surveys like this, or we wouldn't have to deal with this crap:
And, lastly, it's good to see at least some of these products are going bye bye.
Remember, if you can't get enough of this stuff, you can visit my hand-crafted Artisanal Overload page, showing my thus-far complete archives of it.
11 comments:
A friend of mine just are a burger from A sustainably driven pop up burger joint with an artisan approach to British street food.. Do I have to dissolve our friendship?
Their burgers appears to be so artisan that their website doesn't have so much as a menu on it.
Funny you should post this, just last week I wanted to buy italian bread to go with pasta--but I don't like the mushy white crap they sell at the store. I found a "rustic" loaf labeled "artisan" bread and commented to my husband that anything not bland is labeled artisan. I guess it is supposed to make the consumer feel "special".
On the Jewelery: Artisan Day TV listing, if the TV show is featuring people who hand-make jewelry, such people ARE artisans.
I can't find the pic I took of it, but the Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle has signs up describing what some workers are doing in the penguin exhibit- collecting waste so they can sell artisanal penguin poop for fertilizer.
Forget the artisanal for a minute - why would anyone want to eat "wild rocket"? (the salad mix)
That sounds more like the name of something I might put into a sports car than in my body.
For Charles... don't ignore the implications that Wild Rocket might be the effect on your intestinal tract.
My son, who works for a major grocery chain, has been asked for 'Artesian' bread from the bakery department more than once.
So maybe people are just saying it wrong and thinking it's really special?
I think we've lost entirely the meaning of this word. It is now the new buzzword.
Especially the lettuce, though -- the entire packaged lettuce industry appeared after they started using machines like this. Which is the real reason you can buy quality machine-processed lettuce (the same machine takes it into the bag, right there as it rides the rows, in some cases.
"It has a capability to harvest 12,000 pounds of Romaine per hour into totes and up to 24,000 per hour in a bulk loading version."
My parents have an artesian well in their backyard, but they don't brag about it.
Arugula means rocket in Italian. I think the reason the lettuce is named arugula is because of the shape of the leaves.
Ami, I used to work with someone who constantly referred to "artesian" bakeries. Somehow, I always pictured they were fishing faux-country, poorly-shaped loaves out of a well..
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