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Chan790

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4. This is the problem with crowd-source contests.
Wed Aug 6, 2014, 07:11 PM
Aug 2014

Inevitably, someone proposes something revolting or offensive and then the assholes come out of the woodwork to vote for it because they find that kind of social havoc amusing.

One such example was a blind item in a promotions newsletter (a newsletter for people who do promotions, not one of promotions) I used to receive...a company did a "name our new flavor!" contest and immediately the first entry was "Hitler was right.", the second was "Ass! Balls! C*nt!"...by the end of the first day, they pulled and relaunched the contest; all proposals had to clear a reviewer from the marketing department. Of the 4000 first-day proposals...more than 3000 were rejected by the reviewer for being obscene, racist, sexist or otherwise unsuitable.

What we have here is some asshat proposed cappuccino because it would be disgusting...then a lot of other asshats voted for it to fuck with Frito-Lay. Rather than go to the next best proposal, they went with the winner chosen purely because it would be terrible and cost them money.

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Cappuccino??!! [View all] KamaAina Aug 2014 OP
Open carefully--hot and foamy inside pinboy3niner Aug 2014 #1
Hey, potatoes and coffee. They go together like, uh, kale and butterscotch. Arugula Latte Aug 2014 #2
I might actually like that. KamaAina Aug 2014 #3
Let's start a new foodie trend ... Arugula Latte Aug 2014 #8
Or, for that matter, arugula and latte. KamaAina Aug 2014 #9
Hah! Arugula Latte Aug 2014 #12
The bags don't show the word potato... antiquie Aug 2014 #13
This is the problem with crowd-source contests. Chan790 Aug 2014 #4
nah, frito-lay picked the finalists themselves -- the voting starts now, from among the four fishwax Aug 2014 #14
I just saw those at the gas station this morning shenmue Aug 2014 #5
That's what I thought too Duer 157099 Aug 2014 #6
The Wasabi and Ginger ones are pretty good. alarimer Aug 2014 #7
I had the same reaction to both fishwax Aug 2014 #15
Chicken and Waffles hibbing Aug 2014 #10
How much will they pay me to test that? pinboy3niner Aug 2014 #11
Yuk. GoCubsGo Aug 2014 #16
sometimes you can find 99 cent bags of them at gas stations/convenience stores fishwax Aug 2014 #18
I should probably check the grocery store deli section. GoCubsGo Aug 2014 #20
I didn't want to buy a whole big bag either - of the (more conventional) garlic bread flavor LiberalElite Aug 2014 #19
My problem is that I don't encounter many vending machines. GoCubsGo Aug 2014 #21
Yeah - if it weren't for the company vending machines - LiberalElite Aug 2014 #22
You're not the first that has told me that. GoCubsGo Aug 2014 #23
The garlic bread ones - LiberalElite Aug 2014 #17
And that was SO much better than my garlic fries KamaAina Aug 2014 #24
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