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Trademarks Shows Amazon Has Sights On Meal-Kits, 'Single Cow Burgers' and Other Fast Food Options (techcrunch.com)
The latest business Amazon may expand into is the business of meal-kits. According to TechCrunch, Amazon recently filed a trademark (serial number 87517760) for "We do the prep. You be the chef," which relates to a meal-kit service similar to the kind offered by Blue Apron and others. From the report: Amazon describes the service simply: "Prepared food kits composed of meat, poultry, fish, seafood, fruit and/or and vegetables and also including sauces or seasonings, ready for cooking and assembly as a meal; Frozen, prepared, and packaged meals consisting of meat, poultry, fish, seafood, fruit and/or vegetables; fruit salads and vegetable salads; soups and preparations for making soups." It turns out that, in fact, company in the last seven months had registered at least two other trademarks for slightly shorter versions of the same meal kit concept. Respectively, serial numbers 87418923 and 87256976 for "We prep. You cook" and "No-line meal kits," also relate to food-kit services along with marketing related to them. Amazon also has been quietly developing its own lines of pre-made food aimed at people searching for more quality ingredients. The company has, for example, around 10 trademarks filed related to the phrase "single cow burger."
A.K.A. the "regular" size option in America.
It allows you to obtain 6 regular size hamburgers, or 12 sliders, from a horse without killing the animal. George Foreman is still considering it. Sharper Image is still considering it. Sky Mall's considering it. Hammacher Schlemer is still considering it.
Sears said, 'No'.
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Is this supposed to infer that current burgers come from multiple cows? I mean, that's awesome! It's an avenue I don't think we've ever really explored...mixing the meat from different cows, from different breeds, to make the perfect burger. It's hard to breed a single cow that has the perfect meat for a burger, but if we allow the mixing of several cows...we can do this, go science!
Have gnu, will travel.
As opposed to what? A married or divorced cow?
How strange. :P
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Hehe, it means the beef patty was made with meat coming from only one animal, not that they made only one patty with that animal.
Apparently, a single McDonald's beef patty can be made with meat coming from 100 different animals.
Everything I write is lies, read between the lines.
How many cows would you like in your cheese burger sir?
Everything I write is lies, read between the lines.
Now with flavor.
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
There's no way I'd replace Blue Apron with Amazon.
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Looked into Blue Apron a while back, the meals are 2x as pricey and limited in how you can modify the recipes (unless you have lots of stuff to modify recipes with, in which case you know how to cook).
Closest I've come is that steak company in the midwest that will send you steaks, mashed potatoes and whatever for a good 3x over the supermarket price. Granted, they were tasty as hell, but the price just meant I upped my game in the cooking department.
What is this like the single-malt scotch or something? Are they trying to tell us each one of these cows is better experienced on it's own? Does mixing cow meat with other cow meat make it taste worse? If you ever thought to yourself while at the store "gee ground beef is alright, but I wish that it was made in a less efficient manner" this is just for you. Next up: single-strawberry jam and single-tree applesauce. Nice job, Amazon's marketing department. You've made us all a little dumber.
You assume such people showered in the first place.
I am armed because I am free. I am free because I am armed.
Not really, meal kits are basically enough groceries in the right quantities to make a meal, so you don't end up buying a 2lb bag of rice when you needed a cup of it, or a dozen eggs when you only needed one, etc.
It's a problem when you're buying small quantities - I can't really cook some meals because I'd need eggs and milk, and the quantity I need is so little, the rest would spoil before I'd use them all up. Or I'd have to eat the same meal for the next week.
The only problem with meal kits (I also looked into them) is they are expensive, relatively speaking - maybe not as much as going out, but eating in it's pricey. I think I spotted one as being close to $300/month for about 3 meals a week
I have yet to investigate those places where you can prepare meals on location, freeze them and then take them home to warm up and serve - again, those places have the ingredients all laid out on a salad-bar like stand and you combine/mix/chop the food as the recipe card shows.
Aside from that, I seriously question people so fucking lazy that they would avail of these services. Is it really hard to go to a supermarket and just buy the stuff to make a meal? What the hell is the difference? Aside from the freedom to eat what you like, when you like for less money.
Are you fatshaming here?
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
What makes you think people shower just to buy shit? Have you ever been to Walmart? I'm already happy when they are wearing pajamas or underwear...
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
But it's supposed to be Costco! With an overweight guy greeting you saying "Welcome to Costco, I love you."
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They were there to prevent one company from taking over. Too late now!! This is why paying attention to politics is the most important thing you'll ever do in you life.
Nope, apparently, at McDonald's, you get 100 different cows in your single cheese burger.
Everything I write is lies, read between the lines.
you get 100 different cows in your single cheese burger.
You didn't think that when the guys are busy tossing cow bits into the grinder to make ground beef that they keep track of which cows the bits come from and clean out the grinder between each one, did you?
Animal, not cow? What fucking animals we talking about?
I've ONLY seen chatty, annoying older ladies. I can't think of a single time seeing a dude as Costco greeter.
What the fuck is your problem? There's fucking dozens of reasons to use this service. Take your "why can't you" and fuck off.
Idiocracy reference.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8zNsUTWsOc&ab_channel=infokalypse
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I doubt you can.