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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Terry O'Reilly's radio show / podcast - 'The Age of Persuasion' ... had an episode where he mentioned the whole marketing of oranges from the early 1920s and 30s

The whole tradition of drinking orange juice in the morning? ... it was a marketing invention created by some marketing geniuses who were looking for ways to sell more oranges. They first marketed the idea of getting people to eat an orange for breakfast because it was a healthy thing to do. Unfortunately, it didn't sell that many oranges. Then they discovered that it was more lucrative to get people to drink orange juice in the morning because it takes about three or four squeezed oranges to make a glass of orange juice. By encouraging people to drink orange juice with their breakfast, they figured out how to sell many more oranges to people across North America.

Then they got to the point of growing oranges just to juice them. Unfortunately, when you mass render oranges into a liquid, it doesn't look orangy enough ... it comes out like a dull grey/orange/brown. They also remove just about all the water from the liquid so that they can store thousands of gallons of this stuff for future sales. Then when its ready to be used, they just add water and its ready to go. It still tastes good, it just doesn't look good ... so they add orange colouring to it.

It's amazing just how many common things we have in our lives that actually come from some dumb marketing trick to get us all to buy things to make some company and their share holders money.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Torches of Freedom

In the 1920s a bunch of tobacco salesmen decided that they could make women associate cigarettes with the women's rights movement. Smoking was previously seen as "unladylike", but thanks to a handful of well-placed marketing campaigns, they were able to get women smoking almost overnight. What an accomplishment!

Personally, I'm of the opinion that marketing/advertising is one of the most insidious problems society has.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Reconstituted is the word you will see on the label for the process you described.