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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsSo.. Panera has "clean" salads..
Isn't this a pretty damn low bar? Can someone explain the marketing behind this campaign, 'cause I don't get it.
djean111
(14,255 posts)From their website it looks like "clean" means unprocessed, without additives.
https://www.panerabread.com/en-us/articles/what-does-eating-clean-mean.html
Major Nikon
(36,814 posts)Most colors, flavors, preservatives, and sweeteners are natural and the addition of such things is still an additive, so the idea that your grandparents and great-grandparents did what they are alleging is stupid and wrong. There was also numerous artificial additives widely available 100 years ago.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_nature
alarimer
(16,245 posts)It can mean whatever they wish it to mean. Marketing to the same gullible people who think "gluten-free" is a cure for whatever ails them (excepting of course the very few for whom it actually is).
clarice
(5,504 posts)KamaAina
(78,249 posts)clarice
(5,504 posts)Iggo
(47,486 posts)Major Nikon
(36,814 posts)"Food additive" is defined and doesn't mean what they say it means.
jmowreader
(50,447 posts)progressoid
(49,824 posts)annabanana
(52,791 posts)Ineeda
(3,626 posts)people who are shoveling it in as if they hadn't eaten in a week. Really rude table manners. But I like their food.
mackerel
(4,412 posts)dressing and I have to say it was very good and the portion size was good.
annabanana
(52,791 posts)PassingFair
(22,434 posts)It automatically makes me think "WTF, were your salads filthy in the past?"
Some creative director will probably get fired over this.
Chan790
(20,176 posts)has a sign up declaring that all their soups and salads are "clean."
Every time I walk past it, all I can think of is Fight Club.
Funny enough, if you google it...the first hit is me talking about it on DU 8 years ago.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=7937644&mesg_id=7938912
GoCubsGo
(32,061 posts)Google it if you don't know what I'm talking about.