^^^ I have great memories of Pappardelle alla lepre o al cinghiale 🤤 served in trattorie all over the countryside in Tuscany.
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What influencers do you trust?
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I’ll echo what some others have said. I enjoy Shug and some of the other Youtubers but I wouldn’t necessarily buy gear based upon their reviews because my priorities are different than theirs.
I’m not really an ultralight backpacker and I’ve spent enough time out that I know what I like and why. I don’t really need someone else to tell me my preferences. I have enjoyed buying/selling gear in order to figure those things out over the years but I’m at the point now where I don’t really watch gear reviews to find out what to buy. I enjoy Shug because he is entertaining. I tried a hammock and found it a novelty….. sold it and kept the tarp to carry as an emergency shelter for day hikes.
I really don’t buy much these days. Mostly replacement gear as I wear things out and I’ve went with cheap substitutes whenever possible. Hiking poles…..Walmart, rain gear….. Frog Toggs, gaiters… cheap Amazon ones. I need some replacement microspikes and thinking of trying some of the cheapo Amazon versions. My current Kahtoola pair are held together with some extra cord so I am hoping my wife has them on the Christmas list.
Some seriously epic thread drift.
People use the word “fluent” differently.
I can effectively have a conversation in Spanish but it’s crude and I certainly wouldn’t call myself fluent. There are also different dialects that can confuse things. I had a chance to watch a Puerto Rican, Panamanian, and Mexican try to have a conversation. It was funny watching them argue over the “correct” word for whatever they were trading to talk about, real estate in this case.
Shug’s great. I’d love to meet him.
roger’s pasta is indeed sold in Australia as spirals/spirali , also called by some brands fusilli.
Rotini is not common at all here , Barilla does import one type but it is the new variety made with lentils.
BTW, I don’t recall that name “rotini” from when I was in Italy. I see it now but not a type I had way back then.
it’s either “ai funghi”, plural, or “al fungo”
Does it really matter when you are eating in a tent at altitude? :)
I think I prefer ‘ai funghi’ – lots of mushrooms. More important than what I call the pasta maybe?
But thanks for the corrections. :)
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I’m Gen X, so not young enough to understand the Instagram influencer thing. “I’m pretty, so you should buy this muffler” is what it seems like to me.
The shills who do go backpacking but recommend gear for reasons other than actual experience aren’t much better.
Someone like Dixie or Darwin using gear for a long hike and then saying how it worked out for them is what I like.
I’m not sure how to say mushroom in Italian at elevation and could probably bat .700 identifying pasta, but I’m pretty sure Chicken Voila means “Fancy @$$ed chicken” in French at Chateau Bloom, 400 feet above sea level
That product would not be legal in Australia. By law, here in Oz, the mfr must tell you what the ingredients are, and the available info is completely missing that. Just how much chicken is in the bag?
I have noticed that some imported foods do have an extra label stuck on the package giving this sort of information. Yeah, we read them. (Too much salt? Too many artificial this and thats? Put it back.)
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If only there were other sides to the bag to print the ingredients on…
Ah, la vache!
I don’t thgink that it is sold here.
As far as I can see , these are the two lists on the packet :
That’s correct Franco.
Not sure how it’s formatted over there but the ingredients are listed from most to least. Macros are in the other image you posted
More here https://labelcalc.com/creating-an-ingredients-list-on-a-nutrition-label-a-guide-to-fda-compliance/
Chicken seems to be a LONG way down the list.
Lots of additives Grandma would never have recognised.
Why on earth should it contain ferrous sulphate????
Would you trust an influencer selling this?
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“Why on earth should it contain ferrous sulphate????“
Well that’s where all the fancy @$$edness comes from.
It’s also an iron nutritional additive.
I’m fairly meh with Bird’s Eye as an influencer after they over hyped a shelter that ended up being a dud.
“Lots of additives Grandma would never have recognised.“
Well grandma had a goiter when she died of scurvy.
“Why on earth should it contain ferrous sulphate????”
Ferrous Sulfate was a critical ingredient in the movie “Ferrous Bueller’s Day Off”. Everybody knows that except you Aussies.
Why on earth should it contain ferrous sulphate????
An influencer told them to use it. She was in a bikini with her hands shaped like a heart, so it had to be done once the post got 20,000 likes.
Brad, you joke, but I know folks that do exactly that. They see someone pretty on Instagram, and somehow that makes them want to spend money. I’m a Gen X, so I don’t quite understand. But I know I have been influenced in the past. The science behind this behavior is pretty fascinating.
Brad, you joke, but I know folks that do exactly that.
I just hope my kids don’t vote for President Kardashian.
Brad, it will be far more subtle.
And the platform is almost driven by age group. I think kids are on Tik Toc these days. The millennials are mainly on Instagram. And the old folks like me are on Facebook.
This is a pretty good read:
https://medium.com/crobox/under-the-influence-the-power-of-social-media-influencers-5192571083c3
It’s a legit marketing channel. It’s the amount of money going into it that blows my mind. I’ve heard teenagers say that they want to be an influencer when they grow up as an occupation.
Brad said
I just hope my kids don’t vote for President Kardashian
Sorry Brad, his parents generation already beat him to choosing a ‘reality TV star.’
Doesn’t matter your age, your era or which medium you consume, persuasion and marketing are the same as they’ve always been. If you have available money to spend there will always be someone who will try to separate you from it.
YouTube and Instagram stars with the ability to persuade viewers just have that certain something.You can analyze it with the social science all you want, but it really just boils down to whether or not a social media host has what it takes to connect with people. Call it charisma or whatever, I don’t believe it’s something that can be taught.
I’m a late boomer, but I think millennials are generally more savvy and harder to fool that boomers or Gen-Xers. I don’t underestimate them one bit.
There are two bits that bug me:
* The marketing guys who KNOW that they are lying
* The Managers who employ them to lie.
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On a related note a sales person once told me “Marketing makes up the lies, I just tell the lies”.
It’s not just marketers. Scientists make up lies too, as we find out over and over again.
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