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meltingMichael Harriot
9/13/18 11:20am
If you’re single and don’t feel like buying tons of groceries, why not do Blue Apron/ meal kits to feed yourself. I’m married and feed two kids, one who seems to think we’re running a restaurant catering to his peculiar food needs, Blue Apron won’t work for me. Once the empty nest comes I’ll be living off meal kits and dry cereal, soooooo over cooking.
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  skipsthebossmelting
  9/13/18 11:43am
  If you’re single and don’t feel like buying tons of groceries, why not do Blue Apron/ meal kits to feed yourself.
  Because they are expensive as hell compared to buying groceries.
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  bfredmelting
  9/13/18 11:46am
  We’ve tried a couple of versions of these services and found that 1. it saves zero prep and cooking time, so the only reason to use them is if you never go to the store and 2. the food just isn’t very good. Not worth the $$$.
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HuskyBroMichael Harriot
9/13/18 11:18am
How many black folks still don’t know how to use Excel?
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  Quantum Jimmies of Pangaean Are Both Russled And Not RussledHuskyBro
  9/13/18 12:01pm
  50 Cent, Terrell Owens, Wesley Snipes, MC Hammer, Mike Tyson, Evander Holyfield, Toni Braxton, Gary Coleman (RIP). Too damn many.
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  sharpsticksHuskyBro
  9/13/18 12:33pm
  tbf, nobody knows how to use excel. I know someone who’s maintains histogram chart by adding “x”s to cells and moving rows down. I want to say something, but at the same time it’s just... fascinating.
  
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Issa TrapMichael Harriot
9/13/18 12:02pm
My Alexa tells people she’s from ATL but she’s really from Dunwoody.
Then she is not unlike all the other people claiming they are from Atlanta but really live in Cobb, Gwinnett or some other county other than Fulton. Grady baby here so that one hit particularly close to home.
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  oldscrumbyIssa Trap
  9/13/18 12:08pm
  Wait, being from Fulton means I get to claim Atlanta as my home, hiding my sad suburban roots? Yes!
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  Issa Trapoldscrumby
  9/13/18 1:34pm
  Close enough...
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BombayPhDMichael Harriot
9/13/18 11:16am
Let us all hope that the growing consumer demands of POC also help in the creation of ads that reflect reality. When white executives sit around a dream things up based on “what black people think” the results are . . . mediocre at best.
People’s Exhibit A:
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  PaulMooneysTongueBombayPhD
  9/13/18 12:10pm
  That’s so 90s. A better example would be any fried chicken, Popeye’s commercial to be exact, as how lazy Madison Ave is when it comes to targeting the Black community. IJS
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  BombayPhDPaulMooneysTongue
  9/13/18 12:23pm
  “Annie the Chicken Lady” is complete bullshit. But don’t forget that Uptown was a menthol cigarette specifically targeted towards African Americans, and set to be released during Black History Month.
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Vanessa FutrellMichael Harriot
9/13/18 12:00pm
Of course, white people are going out of style like a total eclipse of the sun. And they know it. That’s why they’re doubling down on the hatred. The end is near and they are scared as fuck.
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  borgohurisVanessa Futrell
  9/13/18 3:11pm
  The only thing that will matter in the future is creative capital. Machines will take care of the rest so yeah...they real scared because they are the least creative people on earth. All us people of color need to worry about is them creating a system to mine that creative energy off of us (Facebook et all is just a taste of that). We need to take the keys to the castle away from them and build our own platforms that they can try to earn to be a part of (but they probably will fail because white people stay racist).
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JerseyMichael Harriot
9/13/18 1:58pm
I will never stop being surprised by how many people pay for the privilege of letting Jeff Bezos spy on them. Alexa is some creepy big brother shit.
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  TheBurnerFKACantHaveNiceThingsJersey
  9/13/18 7:58pm
  This is a point of contention between Mr. Burner and me. He has an Alexa in our living room and I hate it. I’ve literally watched the machine turn on at random moments. Plus we have our living room lamps connected to the thing, and it really sucks when you can’t turn the light out because the WiFi is down.
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  JerseyTheBurnerFKACantHaveNiceThings
  9/13/18 11:13pm
  Watching myself turn into an old man is kind of funny. About every third new innovation makes me really nervous about the future. Mostly that we’ll become a species of constantly observed shut ins.
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PaulMooneysTongueMichael Harriot
9/13/18 12:07pm
but it turns out that y’all out here buying gentrified Vacation Bible School box lunches off the internet.
Holy shit. I swear this made me holla and brought back a ton of memories. Thanks Michael.
Good article. Hope more folks remember what was shared here. AAs need to leverage their dollar power to our advantage.
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  PsiPhiGrrrlPaulMooneysTongue
  9/13/18 2:48pm
  Hope more folks remember what was shared here. AAs need to leverage their dollar power to our advantage.
  Let the church say Amen. All these non-cooking folks described on here got me thinking I should get together with my Aunties and start Black Apron™ - no extra seasoning necessary, it will all be in the box!
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  PaulMooneysTonguePsiPhiGrrrl
  9/13/18 4:25pm
  And I bet in your box will be grits. No avocado toast for us.
  It must be LA and NY folks buying that shit cause the subscription price could get me a month AND a half worth of groceries. And I’m a single person.
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JustMy2CentsMichael Harriot
9/13/18 11:30am
But you know who’s No. 1?
Post Malone!
I think a great explanation for why these Hip-Hop artists are in the top 10(maybe except XXXtentacion) is because they all appeal to white people, not just Black people. Especially Post Malone, he has the Eminem factor of being a White rapper so he has a different crossover appeal. There’s a good percentage of White listeners along with Black listeners that listen to these artists.
Which one of you is bringing Blue Apron to cookouts?
Unfortunately I’ve see this with my own eyes. I’ve even asked “why are you paying for this when it’s cheaper to go to the grocery store?”. Even though the answer I would get is “I’m saving money”. Which I would respond with “but this is just one meal. You can eat multiple times paying that same amount if you go to the grocery store”. There are actually Black people out in the world that do not know how to or won’t cook. I blame the parents lol.
*Unfortunately Empire didn’t live up to the hype.
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  CousinPamJustMy2Cents
  9/13/18 11:43am
  From what I hear, those meal service portions are small AF anyway. My best friend’s MIL gave her either a three-month subscription or three meals, I forget (my friend can cook but she and her husband both work and they have two kids, so I think MIL was thinking, let’s make your life a little easier) and after she got and made the first one she was like, this MIGHT be enough food for the toddler. Maybe.
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  illuminancerCousinPam
  9/13/18 1:59pm
  The service we use has fairly generous portions. I haven’t felt hungry after a meal, but I also don’t do that thing where I continue eating after I’m full and then get sick. The big drawback is the lack of leftovers though.
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ThoseAreDigimonMichael Harriot
9/13/18 12:47pm
our little section of the internet will be ruined by dry-ass cat memes and ads for mid-sized sedans
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  MisanthropicMunchkinThoseAreDigimon
  9/13/18 2:05pm
  I’m ok with cat memes taking over the internet.
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KinjaWidgetNinjaDigitsMichael Harriot
9/13/18 11:43am
54 percent of African Americans are under 34 years old, meaning they have lived their entire lives in the digital age. But this also means they don’t know about some important things like encyclopedias, record stores and the first music download service: Dual cassette players.
Eh, 34 years is still old enough to remember and even have used all of that.
While the internet came out in the 90s, it didn’t really hit broad use until we were 14-15 and teachers were extremely skeptical of it being used as a source so we were using encyclopedias until high school when Encarta, not the internet, murdered them.
Digital music downloads/streaming didn’t really start to eat the record industry alive until we were entering college.
Hell, CDs didn’t ubiquitously replace dual cassette players (at least among us poors) until we were in junior high as I definitely had a dual cassette player and my earliest recollections of music was in the form of mix tapes made from carefully listening to the radio to compile them.

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  ThirdAmendmentManKinjaWidgetNinjaDigits
  9/13/18 11:48am
  This. I’m 32 and we didn’t really have useful internet until like 9th grade. Even then it wasn’t hugely popular for a few more years. It was basically AIM and secretly downloading porn from Kazaa.
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  KinjaWidgetNinjaDigitsThirdAmendmentMan
  9/13/18 12:01pm
  Kazaa. Now there’s a name I haven’t heard in a very long time.
  I don’t miss much about my childhood, but I do miss the wide eyed sense of possibility I had about the internet when, as a senior, my house finally had a dedicated phone line for the internet that was capable of 56.6 kbps speeds. Before my senior year the rural home we lived in had ancient phone lines only capable of supporting 24.4 kbps at best.
  Kazaa was the bomb for a lot of things, and because I was a giant fucking nerd, the ability to finally be able to play games like Warcraft II and StarCraft online from home was like a dream come true.
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Which one of you is bringing Blue Apron to cookouts?