Hand-crafted...

[NOT Sword Fighter Super]

What's with this current trend of describing food as "hand-crafted"? Hand-crafted sandwiches, hand-crafted meats and cheeses, etc. When I think of food, the last think I want to think of is hands touching them.

 

[m0rnutz]

Sandwiches and shit are now feasibly mass produced

 

[The Fifth Waltz]

I think it's to appeal to the health conscious hipsters.

 

[NOT Sword Fighter Super]

I'll have a hand-crafted caramel macchiato, please.

 

[RG 448]

What's with this current trend of describing food as "hand-crafted"? Hand-crafted sandwiches, hand-crafted meats and cheeses, etc. When I think of food, the last think I want to think of is hands touching them.

It means when you take that first bite, you’ll taste everything those crafting hands touched that day. Every meat, cheese, sauce, mucus, and genital.

You just can’t get that from a mass-produced sandwich. They sterilize the equipment after every genital it touches.

 

[Desire Lines]

They want to feel like they've accomplished at least something in their life: "Look! Here's a hand-crafted salad! I did it ALL by myself!". It's the current "everything needs validation" culture.

 

[Bassomatic]

They want to feel like they've accomplished at least something in their life: "Look! Here's a hand-crafted salad! I did it ALL by myself!". It's the current "everything needs validation" culture.

This it's sales.

It sounds fancy when it doesn't mean much, that's marketing 101's dream.

 

[Unsuspecting Koala Bear]

It sounds fancy when it doesn't mean much

the value goes up because some schmuck touched it?

 

[Flowers For Sonichu]

It's the new artisnal

 

[Jequiti]

Just another reason to raise up the price tag.

 

[Pickle Inspector]

Is that when you cut sandwiches diagonally and add some random garnishes on the plate to make them look fancy?

 

[ES 148]

I mean, if Gordon Ramsay makes your sandwich then it's more likely to be a good sandwich. Unless he suffers a stroke.
Then again, when it's used for marketing it's probably some poor middle-aged person in Essex forced to do a job a machine could do hundreds of times faster.

 

[Trans Fat 41g]

Because this somehow becomes a matter of ethics. No clue.

 

[NOT Sword Fighter Super]

I mean, if Gordon Ramsay makes your sandwich then it's more likely to be a good sandwich. Unless he suffers a stroke.
Then again, when it's used for marketing it's probably some poor middle-aged person in Essex forced to do a job a machine could do hundreds of times faster.

That day is coming fast. I'm all for it. You don't have to worry about a machine having a bad day and spitting in your food.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8Fdlr2xfM0