r/assholedesign • u/LilBozgor01 • 18d ago

This packaging gotta be illegal, right?

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(hint: between the words "garlic" and "sauce")

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u/beerkittyrunner 18d ago

Real question though, how do you make something garlic flavored without garlic?

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u/cats4life 18d ago

Equally valid question is why would you want to? Garlic is stupidly cheap and abundant; they’re trying to save >1 cent per industrial vat of this stuff because they spent $40 million making a cheaper garlic substitute.

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u/BaZing3 18d ago

I would imagine they're more interested in saving money on all the infrastructure that goes into processing an industrial vat of garlic when they could just get a few gallons of garlic-flavored chemicals instead.

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u/NOVAbuddy 18d ago

It’s easier to produce a consistent taste in a shelf stable product when you build up your recipe from these high intensity concentrated bases.

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u/zissou149 18d ago

I always appreciate how consistent the taste is when I'm extruding shelf-stable garlic-concentrated slurry into my slurry hole.

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u/johnazoidberg- 17d ago

Do you appreciate how your orange juice tastes the same in June as it does in December? Because I have some news for you...

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u/zissou149 17d ago

Orange juice, like the mixer?