Things we thought were true, but turned out to be great marketing (1 Viewer)

[DallasDMac]

Coffee.

Here’s a drink they convinced everyone was so great they don’t notice that an entire sub industry of things to add to coffee to make it palatable came with it.

Black and bitter... like my women.

 

[DallasDMac]

3 billion plastic straws are used every day, and they all end up dumped in the ocean to get inhaled by turtles.

I'm missing the "great marketing" portion of your submission? I'll keep an eye out for the next "Straws, turtles love 'em!" commercial.

 

[Wrigley]

Kale 

 

[Sideshow Bob]

That lettuce is refreshing and provides needed texture. 

 

[Ned]

Coffee.

Here’s a drink they convinced everyone was so great they don’t notice that an entire sub industry of things to add to coffee to make it palatable came with it.

Coffee is the nectar of the gods. 

 

[belljr]

Coffee.

Here’s a drink they convinced everyone was so great they don’t notice that an entire sub industry of things to add to coffee to make it palatable came with it.

Coffee is for closers, and you sir are no closer

 

[cosjobs]

Virgin birth

 

[shuke]

Here's a great chart of a bunch of bull#### we were told at some point.

 

[jhib]

Wait.  Milk isn't good for you?  

It's one of those cases where the pendulum has swung way too far the other way.  It once was touted as something of a perfect food and now it's vilified as a disease-causing, unnatural, disgusting thing that has no business being consumed.

It's just a food people.  If you like it and it doesn't cause digestive issues for you, go for it. 

 

[Bull Dozier]

Here's a great chart of a bunch of bull#### we were told at some point.

Great is overrated.  Some of them are pretty stupid.  Only complete morons think people and dinosaurs coexisted.  There were others with similarly stupid "myths."

 

[gianmarco]

The bottled water industry and any marketing associated with it.

 

[prosopis]

You have to go to college to make it in life.

 

[TheIronSheik]

Spinach is a good source of iron. 

Who's that gullible to believe this?  I mean it can give you instant muscles, but a good source or iron?  Ridiculous.  

 

[prosopis]

marijuana is bad for you.

 

[prosopis]

marijuana is bad for you.

There was some crazy propaganda regarding marijuana when I was a kid. Young folks today will never know the struggle.

 

[Brony]

The bottled water industry and any marketing associated with it.

'Evian is naive spelled backwards' is the current version of 'it's not the heat, it's the humidity' of things people say to make me want to punch them. 

 

[Zow]

Here's a great chart of a bunch of bull#### we were told at some point.

Interesting. Several of these I didn’t know. 

 

[parasaurolophus]

There are a ton of articles but here is one that explains why it is far from the slam dunk we always assumed it was.  Note that this is specific to cow's milk.

https://www.iahp.org/dairy/

Or..... You could read this.

 

[comfortably numb]

I'm missing the "great marketing" portion of your submission? I'll keep an eye out for the next "Straws, turtles love 'em!" commercial.

Grass roots movement 

When ever we go out to eat my kids take the straws away from our drinks and say "save the turtles"

 

[Bull Dozier]

'Evian is naive spelled backwards' is the current version of 'it's not the heat, it's the humidity' of things people say to make me want to punch them. 

Not sure why this is punch worthy.  This is often true.

 

[Terminalxylem]

not sure yet, but possibly grain-free dog food

Good one. My vet just told me it has been linked to heart murmurs in cats.

 

[Terminalxylem]

Basically most ‘health food’ marketing from the 1950s-early 2000s. 

Low fat/cholesterol messaging. 

Pretty much still applies to most “health” food.

 

[Terminalxylem]

Coffee.

Here’s a drink they convinced everyone was so great they don’t notice that an entire sub industry of things to add to coffee to make it palatable came with it.

The crappy additives are definitely bad, but coffee itself is undeniably good for you.

 

[Terminalxylem]

marijuana is bad for you.

Marijuana is good for you.

 

[wlwiles]

Spinach is a good source of iron. 

I guess it's a form of marketing, but I'd think this is 99.99% attributed to Popeye the Sailor cartoons

 

[Ron Swanson]

Grass roots movement 

When ever we go out to eat my kids take the straws away from our drinks and say "save the turtles"

I disagree with this.  We had some straws on the boat a few weeks ago and when the turles showed up we offered them some to see if they really don't like then.  They liked them fine.  In fact, some of them really gobbled them up.  So, I call BS.  Turtles actually LIKE straws.

 

[Leroy Hoard]

Coffee is for closers, and you sir are no closer

Maybe if he tries real hard he can still win that set of steak knives.

 

[TheIronSheik]

I disagree with this.  We had some straws on the boat a few weeks ago and when the turles showed up we offered them some to see if they really don't like then.  They liked them fine.  In fact, some of them really gobbled them up.  So, I call BS.  Turtles actually LIKE straws.

Also, who's to say that one turtle with the straw up his nose wasn't a coke fiend?  Probably his blow washing up on the Florida coastline.

 

[TheIronSheik]

Maybe if he tries real hard he can still win that set of steak knives.

What's third place?

 

[DA RAIDERS]

Religion 

winner

 

[E Street Brat]

Cocaine   It's a helluva Drug.  

Scratch that, 

 

[jon_mx]

What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas.  

 

[Don't Noonan]

That farts are worse than burps

 

[eoMMan]

Roy Orbison was really blind.

 

[trader jake]

Not marketing, but most parents seem to feel their children will become terrors for hours after consuming 'too much' sugar.  Including my wife and family members.

It's not the icing on the cake that's causing the chaos...it's being around other kids in a bouncy castle, pool, or whatever with a freedom to let loose for a change.

 

[Bull Dozier]

Spinach is a good source of iron. 

Who's that gullible to believe this?  I mean it can give you instant muscles, but a good source or iron?  Ridiculous.  

Doing a quick google search, why is this not true?  It seems one serving provides 20% of your daily amount.  Is that not a good source?

 

[TheFanatic]

Baby back ribs are better than spare ribs.  No catchy jingle for spares but a far superior product.

I'll take my baby backs all day long

 

[TheIronSheik]

Doing a quick google search, why is this not true?  It seems one serving provides 20% of your daily amount.  Is that not a good source?

My reply was just going for the Popeye joke.  I have not data for or against what HF said.  

 

[Henry Ford]

Doing a quick google search, why is this not true?  It seems one serving provides 20% of your daily amount.  Is that not a good source?

The type of iron it has in it is difficult to absorb and it has high levels of another chemical that blocks absorption of iron. 

 

[Parrothead]

obviously the moon landing

 

[munga30]

Same as Day One.  

 

[mr. furley]

Cows don't even drink it after six months and they make it.

yeah, and cows don't make fried chicken or Peeps but people eat those like they're going out of style

 

[Henry Ford]

yeah, and cows don't make fried chicken or Peeps but people eat those like they're going out of style

Neither of those are very good for you either.  Peeps turn you into a creature of darkness 

 

[TheIronSheik]

yeah, and cows don't make fried chicken or Peeps but people eat those like they're going out of style

Cows are stupid.

 

[AAABatteries]

Not marketing, but most parents seem to feel their children will become terrors for hours after consuming 'too much' sugar.  Including my wife and family members.

It's not the icing on the cake that's causing the chaos...it's being around other kids in a bouncy castle, pool, or whatever with a freedom to let loose for a change.

I see this differently - I think a lot of the diagnoses of ADD/ADHD and the like (real or not) are impacted by our diets and in particular the huge upswing in sugar that we are ingesting.  I'm not saying there's not people/kids that have real issues but I think a lot of the "hyper" kids are loaded up on sugar/caffeine and their systems can't handle it.  YMMV.

 

[Leroy Hoard]

My reply was just going for the Popeye joke.  I have not data for or against what HF said.  

Spinach salad with extra olive oil.

 

[TheIronSheik]

Spinach salad with extra olive oil.

Extra Virgin Olive Oil?

 

[Leroy Hoard]

Cows are stupid.

They get that from their owners. Years ago I tried to feed a cow leftover KFC biscuits and it's owner ran out of his shack swearing at me not to feed his cow "that crap" .

 

[Henry Ford]

I see this differently - I think a lot of the diagnoses of ADD/ADHD and the like (real or not) are impacted by our diets and in particular the huge upswing in sugar that we are ingesting.  I'm not saying there's not people/kids that have real issues but I think a lot of the "hyper" kids are loaded up on sugar/caffeine and their systems can't handle it.  YMMV.

I think ADD and autism are evolutionary divergences. 

 

[mr. furley]

Cows are stupid.

there's that marketing influence again