I wouldn’t say it’s common, but I also wouldn’t say it’s unheard of…and I would never put it past Americans to try an odd condiment application.
Honestly though, when you look at the ingredients, it’s not too drastically far off from the ingredients of a sauce you might specifically put together as part of a more traditional rice dish: tomatoes, vinegar, onion, garlic, ginger, coriander, cumin… bit heavy on the sugar but a lot of sauces in Asian cooking are even sweeter.
I agree it seems repulsive on the surface to me too, but now that I’ve been thinking about it…I kinda wanna try it.
On a similar note, Questionable Content needs to just stop already if it hasn’t. That turd’s been circling for years and years, proving everyone wrong every time they insist it couldn’t possibly get any worse.
One doesn’t need to “make money in order to justify ones existence”.
Rather, one must justify one’s existence in order to make money.
And while I won’t argue the rather merciless nature of that system, I would add the perspective that this isn’t a trait unique to capitalism, but rather any system of finite resources.
Deliverables Team: “Well here’s the deadline we set, so regardless of whatever happens, you need to have all of your work submitted by then.”
Design Team: “Yeah, we’ll get you our markups, but all in big clumps of work, most of it just says before the deadline, but a lot of it we aren’t even going to try to get to you until after that deadline.”
Me: “Okay well then you two need to discuss that because those two timelines are obviously incompatible.”
Them: “Yeah, no. We’re not going to work that out.”
Deadline arrives…
Deliverables Team: “OMG! Why isn’t this done?!”
Me: “Because I don’t even have the design yet!”
Deliverables: “OMG you’re going to make us miss the deadline! Why didn’t you say anything before?!”
Me: First off, this is just a random internal deadline you set. There’s zero real effect of not meeting it. Second, it’s not me making us miss it; I can’t model and draw what I haven’t received the design for. Third, I did say something before, several times in fact."
Deliverables: “Well you need to talk to your design team and make them hurry.”
Me: I can’t and won’t attempt to do that. But I’ll let them know you’re wound up over it.
Lets design team know that deliverables is bent out of shape over missing their made up deadline.
Half of Design Team: Yeah lol they’ll get over it, and if they don’t, they’re only freaking out on you, so we don’t care.
Other Half of Design Team: OMG you missed the deadline?! How could you?!
Me: Well it’s because you guys haven’t gotten me any designs yet.
Design Team: Yeah we’re still working on it and we don’t have a timeline on when we are going to get it to you…but when will you have it done?
All the people watch commercials, but it wouldn’t surprise me if there was a correlation between the kind of person that can watch stupid reality shows for hours on end and the kind of person who watches those ads and it actually translates into them spending money on the things in the ads.
Just spit balling, but maybe the program that does the transcription doesn’t just use the image, but instead scans the image, finds the Twitter account shown, and checks the tweet text in the image against the matching actual tweet.
And since it’s accessing the actual tweet, maybe that Walmart text is like a profile tag line or something that’s attached to the user?