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[david]

On 03/16/2013 04:01 AM, Hartmut Noack wrote:
> Am 16.03.2013 14:09, schrieb Paul Davis:
>> On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 9:00 AM, Chris Bannister wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 08:36:40PM +0300, Louigi Verona wrote:
>>>> I agree. Of course, you cannot make total crap a success, no matter
>>>> how much money you spend on marketing, but once you are beyond total
>>>> crap, marketing is key!
>>>
>>> Yeah, I sort of agree, depending on the product, but how do you explain
>>> the success of Coca Cola and McDonalds. I reckon they are only
>>> successful *BECAUSE* of the marketing.
>>
>> as one of my very insightful small business friends likes to say "under
>> capitalism all food tends to fat, sugar and salt".
>>
>> these are the taste experiences we crave and enjoy (salt is a bit different
>> - its very bitter by itself, but has massive positive impacts on our
>> appreciation of *other* flavor). coca cola and mcdonalds, for all the utter
>> crap that they peddle, have created products that manage to appeal to these
>> cravings.
>
> Correct. Most childern, that ever have tasted the Burger will not allow
> their parents to pass by a McDonalds/BurgerKing "restaurant" whithout
> heavyly demanding to stop and buy.

What I was always demanding when I was a kid near a McDonald's wasn't 
the food specifically - I'd pretty much eat anything back then - but the 
toys ... ;-)

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