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kleinbl00  ·  3242 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Myth of Millenial as Cultural Rebel

Been saying this for years. Whenever you read the word "millenial" in an article, substitute "kids these days."

    Kids these days are killing the paper napkin industry.

    Younger consumers are opting instead for paper towels at the dinner table, The Washington Post reports.

    The Post points to a survey conducted by Mintel (the same company that discovered kids these days find cereal too much work to eat ) from last month, which highlights that only 56% of shoppers said that they bought napkins in the past six months.

EDIT: even better

EDIT AGAIN: ZOMG I'm dying

    Why aren’t pesky whipper-snappers eating cereal? Apparently, it’s just too much work.

    Almost 40% of pesky whipper-snappers surveyed by Mintel said that cereal was an inconvenient breakfast choice, because they have to clean up after eating it, reports the New York Times.





b_b  ·  3242 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I love that the industry uses "the breakfast occasion" where everyone else uses "breakfast." Did the packaged food industry really need a jargon term for breakfast? And if so, did it need to be just a way more complicated version of the normal word?

_refugee_  ·  3242 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Read a post today where a restauranteer, instead of saying "brunch," referred to "the brunch presentation." Like what?

kleinbl00  ·  3242 days ago  ·  link  ·  

It makes them feel better about the fact that they're microwaving Sysco.

You will pry this magazine from my cold dead fingers