{"id":369,"date":"2006-07-20T12:59:21","date_gmt":"2006-07-20T17:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.forgetful.ca\/?p=242"},"modified":"2006-07-20T12:59:21","modified_gmt":"2006-07-20T17:59:21","slug":"pickles-can-be-used-to-show-you-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/?p=369","title":{"rendered":"Pickles can be used to show you care."},"content":{"rendered":"

I like pickles more than the average bloke. Relish (a pickle derivative) is one of my favourite condiments, and a nice garlic dill is a perfect pre-dinner snack. But even I<\/strong> find the claims on the Kraft-run website pickles.com<\/a> somewhat dubious.<\/p>\n

Under the section “pickles are fun!”, we arrive at the claim “Pickles can be used to show you care.” Is this a generally accepted pickle quality, or is this a blatant ploy by marketing to substitute pickles for greeting cards and flowers? Would you buy a pickle to show you care? Come now, Kraft<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This is calling into question Kraft’s sincerity in other marketing endeavours. If they’re so quick to make ridiculous claims about pickles, can we really believe them when they say “Good to the last drop,” or “It’s the cheeziest!” Is it really the cheeziest? Have they done the research? What if the last few drops are the cruddy ones? The coffee’s usually cold by then, so it’s kind of icky. Shouldn’t they tell the truth?<\/p>\n

I invite you to discuss in the comments what other ridiculous things pickles are good for. I’ll forward the best few to Kraft’s marketing department for their next pickles.com website update.\u00a0 Don’t think I won’t!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I like pickles more than the average bloke. Relish (a pickle derivative) is one of my favourite condiments, and a nice garlic dill is a perfect pre-dinner snack. But even I find the claims on the Kraft-run website pickles.com somewhat dubious. Under the section “pickles are fun!”, we arrive at the claim “Pickles can be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[15,50],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}