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Temu is advertising filet mignon on X

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Apparently from a third party seller in New York....and tastes really bad. I was surprised steak could be safely mailed in such normal looking packaging!

https://www.delish.com/food/a70539084/temu-meat-review/

what a well written article. Very human. Refreshing to read in the era of AI. Witty without trying too hard, genuinely funny, yet informative, and succinct.

I'm going to have to read more from Steven Morea!

Hahhahahahhaa

Really? Maybe my brain is broken but I saw lots of forced analogies and LLM habits. Like where it does an em dash and a short list:

"I was getting steak ads everywhere—Instagram, news sites, even in places where ads should not be allowed to have that much audacity." ... "everything simply—salt and pepper, no fancy rubs, no sauce safety net." ... "with twine—very farmer’s market cosplay, very “trust me, I’m artisanal.”"

Before everyone piles on this comment with "whoosh" and "it was sarcasm" and such — have you noticed that reacting to ironic, sarcastic comments as if they were meant literally is what real LVL 80 trolls do oftener and oftener? On internet, you can never know who is pulling leg...

I remember in 2021 or so there was a startup doing 20 minute grocery delivery in SF, $50 off on your first order.

I got some really nice steaks for free and the delivery actually arrived via motorbike in 10 minutes. They must have had delivery drivers waiting with their own inventory or something. Anyways, the VC funding dried up and the company was gone a few months later.

Kosmo.com?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kozmo.com

that was ~20 years earlier but was so awesome when it was around. That and webvan were better (for customers, not for making money) than anything that existed until 2020.

Getir was doing 20 mins grocery delivery in most European capitals.

Interestingly, one way they get the delivery time down is they pack the items into the motorbike when you add them to the basket, not when you checkout.

If you remove an item from the basket and checkout, the motorbike will often arrive with the removed item (and take it back again).

This is probably part of their "weird stuff" marketing scheme. They pick strange items to draw people in: either an item that is truly inscrutable (though often appearing related to sex) or an item that doesn't seem like it would/could be sold on their marketplace.

Unrelated story but when guests would come over, my mom would go to the store and buy the fanciest meat (usually filet mignon) and put it in a stew/soup (she liked making soups). To this day the only way I've had filet mignon was in soup

I love soup, and I love filet mignon, but... those two things don't really go well together.

Wow, you should really go to a butcher shop nearby and buy some filet mignon. Try making some steak au poivre, a classic of French cuisine. It's not too hard and it's delicious.

But why though? That sounds completely backward. Wouldn't you use cheap meats in soups?

It is backwards and it doesn’t make sense. My mom just had a poor understanding of how to be fancy and my dad was too nice to correct her

so what does the TEMU brand actually represent?

like I can't gauge the value prop outside of "3rd party shit sold cheap".

how does that translate to quality food?

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