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“When I want bacon, I'll have bacon, when I want some other food, I'll look for that” I hear this all the time from people who eat meat, but consider this: may
by jjj123 4y ago
“When I want bacon, I'll have bacon, when I want some other food, I'll look for that”
I hear this all the time from people who eat meat, but consider this: maybe you aren’t actually the target audience for this product. Maybe it’s for people that don’t eat any pork but still like the taste and texture of bacon.
- mc32 4y agoBut if they are not trying to entice meat-eaters there is no reason to ride the coattails of the original, real and authentic thing. You'd sell it as "seacrunch" or "seamunch" or whatever.
- Jarwain 4y agoThe reason is to draw people in with a comparison to something they already know. "bacon made of seaweed" sounds more interesting and will draw more people in than "seacrunch", which has its own identity and brand it would need to build up
- mc32 4y agoYou may be right, but I have a feeling most vegetarians and vegans don't need an imitation of meat in mock bacon. They have a great variety of tasty things already few if any rely on meat analogues (especially if the diet is inspired by traditional vege/vegan diets). So the target with this naming convention would be "converts" or people transitioning to vege/vegan --which is a smaller market.
- kjkjadksj 4y agoThe end result is more like replicating a grape with artificial grape flavor: not nearly there in taste and with a ton of processing. I hate how tepid these companies are. Its like if all food has to be a copy of some other food to go to market, then we are stuck with the mass market cuisine of the mid 19th century as our end all be all.
- Jarwain 4y agoHaven't tried the specific product myself so I can't really say. imo Artificial flavors aren't great at replacing a thing, but they can transfer the essence of a thing's flavor to something else and that leads to interesting results. For example, snow-cone syrup is a surprisingly good flavoring for kratom! Yeah that's fair. Doing something super novel is risky though, and a big part of starting a business is about mitigating risk
- thelazydogsback 4y agoWell, if we all ate meat alternatives most of the time and treated ourselves to real meat much less often, we could reduce the density of animals raised for food so that they could be raised humanely. I love meat and especially bacon, but I'll have sea-crunch (or whatever) most of the time if it means we don't have to torture animals all their lives. Related: this Future Perfect podcast https://pca.st/ngofo0ll https://pca.st/ngofo0ll
- mc32 4y agoThe post we're children to suggests that meat eaters may not be the intended market, so my reply is a response to that.
- nickthegreek 4y agoI trust that these huge companies have done the market research and have came up with the names based on that. The people want items with names of familiar foods.