• pelespirit@sh.itjust.works
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    I truly find them disgusting. This is really starting to seem like astroturfing. I’m borderline about pulling it.

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      I don’t think it’s astroturfing to talk about what food engineers have figured out about human taste preferences.

      A lot of people spent a lot of time and money figuring out what drives people to mindlessly eat. Then the ignored the health ramifications and started selling a lot of products that are just different textures of salted sugar fat with glutamate.

      Same reason you’ll absentmindedly eat a basket of bread if you have cinnamon butter, or cinnamon rolls.
      We can use the food science to predict that there’s probably a mild aged cheese that would be great on a cinnamon roll.

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          Too salty for my taste, the cheese ones make me feel awful and every other flavor tastes like gym bag smell.
          Oh, and the dehydration mixed with salt blowing out your taste buds makes water taste off, so you’re just dehydrated longer.

          Are you actually thinking that a joke image where someone isn’t overly impressed with doritos is viral advertising? On a platform with negligible traffic? With shills who call the product unhealthy?

          That’s so weird I might not even be able to finish my Crystal Pepsi ®.

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      Dude, what? I am not a shill for Big Junk Food. I’m pointing out how companies make the stuff hyperpalatable to get people to eat more of it. It’s unfortunately contributing to the obesity epidemic and not good for people.

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        To be clear, I don’t think OP is astroturfing. Wasn’t sure about you and you’re obviously not. I like having this stay up to explain it all though and I have to test it.

        I was wrong and it doesn’t seem to be astroturfing. Cool.

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        Astroturfing is the deceptive practice of hiding the sponsors of an orchestrated message or organization (e.g., political, economic, advertising, religious, or public relations) to make it appear as though it originates from, and is supported by, unsolicited grassroots participants.[1] It is a practice intended to give the statements or organizations credibility by withholding information about the source’s financial backers.

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astroturfing