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09-07-2005 04:31 PM |
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Originally Posted by Shoehorn
Well, while you present a good argument, it doesn't work that way. Heres why: Pizza ingredients and pizza itself is such a large industry, there are too many things that go into making a pizza for one company or industry to really benefit. For example, what kind of pizza did they eat? Do you know? I don't. Who would be benefitting most? Farmers who grew grain to make dough? No. Tomato farmers who grew tomatoes for the sauce? No. Not the same.
Spinach on the other hand, is a very small industry that could benefit as a whole by a surge in spinach consumption. Combine that with the fact that they get government subsidization and that the government also is in control of the Navy, and you have a cartoon character that eats spinach and is in the Navy. All of the sudden you get a spinach sales boom and an influx of kids ages 4-12 registering for Naval positions. It makes perfect sense.
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I highly doubt that children would want to eat spinach after watching Popeye. children have no money, they cannot buy products they get brainwashed into their minds as they watch tv. however, they can nag their parents to buy them certain products. Now a kid wanting to eat some pizza will nag a parent to death to order some, pizza is food that is accepted openly by all ages, its hot, delicious, and comes in tons of different varieties.
Spinach comes in one or two different styles, you have to cook it, it takes a long time. no kids are going to eat spinach man. the target market for spinach is old people.
The ninja turtles = come off as "cool" to children, children like to imitate what they see because imitation is the most sincere form of flattery and childrens minds are very impressionable. they see the TMNT eating pizza, naturally they will want to do the same thing. its all about psychology and marketing.
Spinach does not appeal to children.
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Outlook Report No. (VGS-300-01) 15 pp, January 2004
U.S. fresh-market spinach consumption has been increasing over the past few decades. Basic knowledge of the distribution of spinach consumption across different market channels, geographic regions, and population groups has been very limited in the past. Using data from USDA's 1994-96 and 1998 Continuing Survey of Food Intakes by Individuals, this article examines the consumption distribution of fresh-market and processed spinach in the United States. The analysis indicates that per capita spinach consumption is greatest in the Northeast and West. About 80 percent of fresh-market spinach is purchased at retail and consumed at home, while 91 percent of processed spinach is consumed at home. Per capita spinach use is strongest among Asians, highest among women 40 and older, and weakest among teenage girls.
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