This has to be one of the dumbest idea to sell a product yet. Kraft
wants to sell salad dressing to kids by calling it "frosting"

https://www.delish.com/food-news/a27...alad-frosting/

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kraft...b04e90f1c8eda0

On Monday, June 10, 2019 at 5:10:07 PM UTC-4, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
> This has to be one of the dumbest idea to sell a product yet. Kraft
> wants to sell salad dressing to kids by calling it "frosting"
>
> https://www.delish.com/food-news/a27...alad-frosting/
>
> https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kraft...b04e90f1c8eda0

Why not? Commercial salad dressings are nearly as sweet as frosting.

"Nobody likes dry vegetables"? WTF? I ate buckets of dry vegetables
before crudites were "invented" in the 1970s.

Cindy Hamilton

On 6/11/2019 5:55 AM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> On Monday, June 10, 2019 at 5:10:07 PM UTC-4, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
>> This has to be one of the dumbest idea to sell a product yet. Kraft
>> wants to sell salad dressing to kids by calling it "frosting"
>>
>> https://www.delish.com/food-news/a27...alad-frosting/
>>
>> https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kraft...b04e90f1c8eda0
>
> Why not? Commercial salad dressings are nearly as sweet as frosting.
>
> "Nobody likes dry vegetables"? WTF? I ate buckets of dry vegetables
> before crudites were "invented" in the 1970s.
>
> Cindy Hamilton
>

I picked up a bottle of Braswell's Vidalia Onion dressing. The first
ingredient was sugar.

I just don't get the reasoning of calling a dressing "frosting" to trick
them into eating it. There are better ways of parenting.

On 6/11/2019 9:08 AM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
> On 6/11/2019 5:55 AM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>> On Monday, June 10, 2019 at 5:10:07 PM UTC-4, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
>>> This has to be one of the dumbest idea to sell a product yet.Â* Kraft
>>> wants to sell salad dressing to kids by calling it "frosting"
>>>
>>> https://www.delish.com/food-news/a27...alad-frosting/
>>>
>>> https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kraft...b04e90f1c8eda0
>>>
>>
>> Why not?Â* Commercial salad dressings are nearly as sweet as frosting.
>>
>> "Nobody likes dry vegetables"?Â* WTF?Â* I ate buckets of dry vegetables
>> before crudites were "invented" in the 1970s.
>>
>> Cindy Hamilton
>>
>
> I picked up a bottle of Braswell's Vidalia Onion dressing.Â* The first
> ingredient was sugar.
>
> I just don't get the reasoning of calling a dressing "frosting" to trick
> them into eating it.Â* There are better ways of parenting.

Funny, ads for Hidden Valley Ranch Dressing show kids happily munching
on vegetables.

Jill

"jmcquown" > wrote in message
...
> On 6/11/2019 9:08 AM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
>> On 6/11/2019 5:55 AM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>>> On Monday, June 10, 2019 at 5:10:07 PM UTC-4, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
>>>> This has to be one of the dumbest idea to sell a product yet. Kraft
>>>> wants to sell salad dressing to kids by calling it "frosting"
>>>>
>>>> https://www.delish.com/food-news/a27...alad-frosting/
>>>>
>>>> https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kraft...b04e90f1c8eda0
>>>
>>> Why not? Commercial salad dressings are nearly as sweet as frosting.
>>>
>>> "Nobody likes dry vegetables"? WTF? I ate buckets of dry vegetables
>>> before crudites were "invented" in the 1970s.
>>>
>>> Cindy Hamilton
>>>
>>
>> I picked up a bottle of Braswell's Vidalia Onion dressing. The first
>> ingredient was sugar.
>>
>> I just don't get the reasoning of calling a dressing "frosting" to trick
>> them into eating it. There are better ways of parenting.
>
> Funny, ads for Hidden Valley Ranch Dressing show kids happily munching on
> vegetables.

Some kids eat veggies. Others don't. I don't think the dressing has anything
to do with it. If they like them, they'll eat them straight up.

On Tue, 11 Jun 2019 02:55:30 -0700 (PDT), Cindy Hamilton
> wrote:

>On Monday, June 10, 2019 at 5:10:07 PM UTC-4, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
>> This has to be one of the dumbest idea to sell a product yet. Kraft
>> wants to sell salad dressing to kids by calling it "frosting"
>>
>> https://www.delish.com/food-news/a27...alad-frosting/
>>
>> https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kraft...b04e90f1c8eda0
>
>Why not? Commercial salad dressings are nearly as sweet as frosting.
>
>"Nobody likes dry vegetables"? WTF? I ate buckets of dry vegetables
>before crudites were "invented" in the 1970s.
>
>Cindy Hamilton

I still like raw veggies with a wee bit of kosher salt, cauliflower is
a favorite. Here salad dressing is usually olive oil and fresh lemon
juice, s n'p. We don't use bottled dressings.

wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Jun 2019 02:55:30 -0700 (PDT), Cindy Hamilton
> > wrote:
>
>> On Monday, June 10, 2019 at 5:10:07 PM UTC-4, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
>>> This has to be one of the dumbest idea to sell a product yet. Kraft
>>> wants to sell salad dressing to kids by calling it "frosting"
>>>
>>> https://www.delish.com/food-news/a27...alad-frosting/
>>>
>>> https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kraft...b04e90f1c8eda0
>>
>> Why not? Commercial salad dressings are nearly as sweet as frosting.
>>
>> "Nobody likes dry vegetables"? WTF? I ate buckets of dry vegetables
>> before crudites were "invented" in the 1970s.
>>
>> Cindy Hamilton
>
> I still like raw veggies with a wee bit of kosher salt, cauliflower is
> a favorite. Here salad dressing is usually olive oil and fresh lemon
> juice, s n'p. We don't use bottled dressings.
>

Well, aren't "we" special Popeye?

"Ed Pawlowski" > wrote in message
...
> This has to be one of the dumbest idea to sell a product yet. Kraft wants
> to sell salad dressing to kids by calling it "frosting"
>
> https://www.delish.com/food-news/a27...alad-frosting/
>
> https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kraft...b04e90f1c8eda0

When I was a kid, I loved salad with no dressing. My mom always ate hers
with no dressing. And yet when we went out to eat, she insisted that I try
all the dressings. Why? I don't know. Why spoil a good thing? In my mind, if
I like it like that, let me eat it like that!

Angela was the same. She loved salad when she was little. Then about the the
time she entered school, she went off of it. Why? She was given salad
drowned in Ranch dressing. Not by me. She didn't like the dressing. Took a
great many years for her to like salad again. Now she will eat it plain,
with honey mustard or balsamic vinaigrette.

Angela and I have always liked our veggies. Not all veggies but quite a lot
of them, especially raw.

My brother OTOH has *never* liked veggies. Still doesn't. He has to drown
his salad in blue cheese dressing and even then he eats mainly just the
dressing.

I hate it when adults tell kids the wrong name for things. For instance, my
parents used to tell my nephew that he was eating little trees when he ate
broccoli. They told Angela that the letter "S" was called "Sneaky Snake". I
remember her teacher calling me and telling me that she knew all of her
letters except for the letter "S". Doing stuff like that to a kid can be
embarrassing to them and perhaps even damaging if they believe the wrong
information. Can you imagine some kid eating at their friend's house and
asking for the salad frosting?

Julie Bove wrote:
>
> I hate it when adults tell kids the wrong name for things. For instance, my
> parents used to tell my nephew that he was eating little trees when he ate
> broccoli. They told Angela that the letter "S" was called "Sneaky Snake". I
> remember her teacher calling me and telling me that she knew all of her
> letters except for the letter "S". Doing stuff like that to a kid can be
> embarrassing to them and perhaps even damaging if they believe the wrong
> information.

I don't see the correlation there, Julie.

On 2019-06-11 7:53 a.m., Gary wrote:
> Julie Bove wrote:
>>
>> I hate it when adults tell kids the wrong name for things. For instance, my
>> parents used to tell my nephew that he was eating little trees when he ate
>> broccoli. They told Angela that the letter "S" was called "Sneaky Snake". I
>> remember her teacher calling me and telling me that she knew all of her
>> letters except for the letter "S". Doing stuff like that to a kid can be
>> embarrassing to them and perhaps even damaging if they believe the wrong
>> information.
>
> I don't see the correlation there, Julie.
>

Julie's parents did a much better job of treating her with honesty and
openness while raising her. As a result, you could right a book chapter
of the foods she does not like and only a short paragraph on those she
does like, and she has acquired a reputation for lying about just about
everything.

"Dave Smith" > wrote in message
...
> On 2019-06-11 7:53 a.m., Gary wrote:
>> Julie Bove wrote:
>>>
>>> I hate it when adults tell kids the wrong name for things. For instance,
>>> my
>>> parents used to tell my nephew that he was eating little trees when he
>>> ate
>>> broccoli. They told Angela that the letter "S" was called "Sneaky
>>> Snake". I
>>> remember her teacher calling me and telling me that she knew all of her
>>> letters except for the letter "S". Doing stuff like that to a kid can be
>>> embarrassing to them and perhaps even damaging if they believe the wrong
>>> information.
>>
>> I don't see the correlation there, Julie.
>>
>
> Julie's parents did a much better job of treating her with honesty and
> openness while raising her. As a result, you could right a book chapter of
> the foods she does not like and only a short paragraph on those she does
> like, and she has acquired a reputation for lying about just about
> everything.

I think you mean "write". Both of my parents were picky eaters. I eat a far
greater variety of foods than they ever did. And no, they were not always
honest with me. For instance, telling me that liver was steak.

On 6/11/2019 7:53 AM, Gary wrote:
> Julie Bove wrote:
>>
>> I hate it when adults tell kids the wrong name for things. For instance, my
>> parents used to tell my nephew that he was eating little trees when he ate
>> broccoli. They told Angela that the letter "S" was called "Sneaky Snake". I
>> remember her teacher calling me and telling me that she knew all of her
>> letters except for the letter "S". Doing stuff like that to a kid can be
>> embarrassing to them and perhaps even damaging if they believe the wrong
>> information.
>
> I don't see the correlation there, Julie.
>
It's a fairy tale. There is a tenuous correlation with Kraft selling
ranch dressing as "salad frosting". No real reason for her parents to
tell her nephew he wasn't eating broccoli. As if saying "little trees"
would make him more likely to eat broccoli.

Same thing with her parents teaching Angela the word for 'S' was "sneaky
snake". You don't believe any of this, do you?

Jill

On 2019-06-11 1:43 p.m., jmcquown wrote:
> On 6/11/2019 7:53 AM, Gary wrote:
>> Julie Bove wrote:
>>>
>>> I hate it when adults tell kids the wrong name for things. For
>>> instance, my
>>> parents used to tell my nephew that he was eating little trees when
>>> he ate
>>> broccoli. They told Angela that the letter "S" was called "Sneaky
>>> Snake". I
>>> remember her teacher calling me and telling me that she knew all of her
>>> letters except for the letter "S". Doing stuff like that to a kid can be
>>> embarrassing to them and perhaps even damaging if they believe the wrong
>>> information.
>>
>> I don't see the correlation there, Julie.
>>
> It's a fairy tale.Â* There is a tenuous correlation with Kraft selling
> ranch dressing as "salad frosting".Â* No real reason for her parents to
> tell her nephew he wasn't eating broccoli.Â* As if saying "little trees"
> would make him more likely to eat broccoli.

We called broccoli hulk trees to get our son to try it. He liked it and
it remains on of his favourite vegetables.

>
> Same thing with her parents teaching Angela the word for 'S' was "sneaky
> snake".Â* You don't believe any of this, do you?
>
> Jill

On Tue, 11 Jun 2019 07:53:34 -0400, Gary > wrote:

>Julie Bove wrote:
>>
>> I hate it when adults tell kids the wrong name for things. For instance, my
>> parents used to tell my nephew that he was eating little trees when he ate
>> broccoli. They told Angela that the letter "S" was called "Sneaky Snake". I
>> remember her teacher calling me and telling me that she knew all of her
>> letters except for the letter "S". Doing stuff like that to a kid can be
>> embarrassing to them and perhaps even damaging if they believe the wrong
>> information.
>
>I don't see the correlation there, Julie.

You don't need to, it's a Boveism.

"Gary" > wrote in message ...
> Julie Bove wrote:
>>
>> I hate it when adults tell kids the wrong name for things. For instance,
>> my
>> parents used to tell my nephew that he was eating little trees when he
>> ate
>> broccoli. They told Angela that the letter "S" was called "Sneaky Snake".
>> I
>> remember her teacher calling me and telling me that she knew all of her
>> letters except for the letter "S". Doing stuff like that to a kid can be
>> embarrassing to them and perhaps even damaging if they believe the wrong
>> information.
>
> I don't see the correlation there, Julie.

You don't? Calling salad dressing salad frosting? Seems obvious to me.
Telling a kid the wrong name for something.

Julie Bove wrote:
>
> "Gary" > wrote in message ...
> > Julie Bove wrote:
> >>
> >> I hate it when adults tell kids the wrong name for things. For instance,
> >> my
> >> parents used to tell my nephew that he was eating little trees when he
> >> ate
> >> broccoli. They told Angela that the letter "S" was called "Sneaky Snake".
> >> I
> >> remember her teacher calling me and telling me that she knew all of her
> >> letters except for the letter "S". Doing stuff like that to a kid can be
> >> embarrassing to them and perhaps even damaging if they believe the wrong
> >> information.
> >
> > I don't see the correlation there, Julie.
>
> You don't? Calling salad dressing salad frosting? Seems obvious to me.
> Telling a kid the wrong name for something.

Forget the "salad frosting," Julie.
My question was about your parents telling young Angela that "S"
stood for Sneaky Snake.

Just *WHY* did her teacher call to tell you that Angela knew all
the letters except for the letter S?

"Gary" > wrote in message ...
> Julie Bove wrote:
>>
>> "Gary" > wrote in message
>> ...
>> > Julie Bove wrote:
>> >>
>> >> I hate it when adults tell kids the wrong name for things. For
>> >> instance,
>> >> my
>> >> parents used to tell my nephew that he was eating little trees when he
>> >> ate
>> >> broccoli. They told Angela that the letter "S" was called "Sneaky
>> >> Snake".
>> >> I
>> >> remember her teacher calling me and telling me that she knew all of
>> >> her
>> >> letters except for the letter "S". Doing stuff like that to a kid can
>> >> be
>> >> embarrassing to them and perhaps even damaging if they believe the
>> >> wrong
>> >> information.
>> >
>> > I don't see the correlation there, Julie.
>>
>> You don't? Calling salad dressing salad frosting? Seems obvious to me.
>> Telling a kid the wrong name for something.
>
> Forget the "salad frosting," Julie.
> My question was about your parents telling young Angela that "S"
> stood for Sneaky Snake.
>
> Just *WHY* did her teacher call to tell you that Angela knew all
> the letters except for the letter S?

Because my parents said it wasn't an "S". It was a sneaky snake.

On 6/10/19 3:10 PM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
> This has to be one of the dumbest idea to sell a product yet.Â* Kraft
> wants to sell salad dressing to kids by calling it "frosting"
>
> https://www.delish.com/food-news/a27...alad-frosting/
>
> https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kraft...b04e90f1c8eda0
>

It seems to go along with most of the products they produce. Sweet,
salty KRAP. But, they no doubt have a large market share of products
out here. Mainly because most have no idea what a healthy meal should
consist of. And, why would anyone want their kids to learn to smother
their otherwise decent food with something squeezed out of a Kraft
container. We never buy their products.

On Tue, 11 Jun 2019 06:12:27 -0600, jay > wrote:

>On 6/10/19 3:10 PM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
>> This has to be one of the dumbest idea to sell a product yet.* Kraft
>> wants to sell salad dressing to kids by calling it "frosting"
>>
>> https://www.delish.com/food-news/a27...alad-frosting/
>>
>> https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kraft...b04e90f1c8eda0
>>
>
>It seems to go along with most of the products they produce. Sweet,
>salty KRAP. But, they no doubt have a large market share of products
>out here. Mainly because most have no idea what a healthy meal should
>consist of. And, why would anyone want their kids to learn to smother
>their otherwise decent food with something squeezed out of a Kraft
>container. We never buy their products.

Not so critical, please, jay. Just close your eyes and chew.

Ed Pawlowski > wrote:
> This has to be one of the dumbest idea to sell a product yet. Kraft
> wants to sell salad dressing to kids by calling it "frosting"
>
> https://www.delish.com/food-news/a27...alad-frosting/
>
> https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kraft...b04e90f1c8eda0
>

I asked my 10 year old if she would eat €œsalad frosting€�, and she wrinkled
up her nose and said €œno!€� This trick may work for a short time (one time)
on much younger kids (the under 4 crowd), or kids to whom the packaging and
€œcute€� name appeal to (but are old enough to know what it really is), but
the concept of eating it simply because its called frosting is dumb.
Theyre not fooling anyone.

I grew up in a family of hunters, and deer sausage was always called €œBambi
meat€�, especially to the littlest kids. No matter what it was called, I
always knew it was deer meat. The name made no difference. Then again, I
liked it, so getting me to eat it wasnt an issue.