"jmcquown" > wrote in message
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> On 2/11/2014 11:33 AM, Moe DeLoughan wrote:
>> On 2/10/2014 11:53 AM, jmcquown wrote:
>>> On 2/10/2014 12:36 PM, Moe DeLoughan wrote:
>>>> I'm also thinking it would appeal to people who live alone and aren't
>>>> interested in doing much fancy cooking for themselves, so they don't
>>>> keep much in the way of staples on hand. This would enable them to
>>>> enjoy
>>>> some variety without much effort or investment in supplies. In fact, if
>>>> I had to bet on it, I'd say LoL developed this with the aging
>>>> population
>>>> in mind.
>>>
>>> I hadn't considered the age factor. What about the "I hate to cook
>>> factor?" My mother surely would have jumped on this product wagon if
>>> it had been available in the 1970's. If she were alive to saute today
>>> (not something she did much of) she'd probably buy it.
>>
>> Bingo. Plus those people who don't feel capable of crafting a flavor
>> profile all by themselves. They can't figure out what to combine with
>> what. This would make it simple.
>>
>> I have an elderly neighbor who says fancy cooking is too much bother now
>> that she's only cooking for one. It wouldn't be too much more effort for
>> her to saute her chicken breast using one of these, rather than using
>> plain oil, and she'd enjoy it more.
>
> She might at that! Maybe suggest it to her?
>
> I have a brother who forgets he didn't know a thing about cooking until I
> taught him the basics and got him interested in cooking in the 1980's.
> Fast foward to 2008 when he came for a visit after our dad died. Now he's
> a food snob.
>
> I'd bought a bottle of McCormick's Italian Seasoning blend for Mom. (I
> was still expecting to return home at that point.) From his reaction
> you'd have thought I'd committed a crime! I said really dude, you know
> she hates to cook. She's not going to buy fresh herbs. Chances are she
> won't bother adding dried herbs separately, either. With this, a couple
> of shakes and she can punch up that jarred spaghetti sauce. Nothing wrong
> with that.

People bought herbs and spices for my mom. She still didn't use them. She
quit using salt entirely at some point and for a while was using Mrs. Dash
on some things. I don't know what they put in that stuff but my brother and
I didn't like it. She did buy taco seasoning packets. Her spaghetti sauce
came from a packet. Just add water! She put parsley in almost everything.
Sometimes so much that it had a diuretic effect. She used chili powder and
cinnamon in/on some things. That was about it.