Please find me whose idea “kirkshotsauce” was
It’s so coppery! Yim yum
It was a top google search when people were looking for sources of the video of him being shot and they figured they could capitalize on that.
But is it… satire?..
I mean I was definitely making a joke. I can’t speak for the ghouls who are actually marketing it but I doubt they have the capability for that sort of thinking.
This can’t be real
Sadly https://kirkshotsauce.com/ exists.
Although appears either down or being worked on
Can we stop advertising this shit? Remember all attention is good attention on social media platforms like Lemmy
“Remember all attention is good attention” it really isn’t. Its what marketing people like to push to justify their 6 figure salaries. Think about it critically for a second. Is Morbius the highest grossing film of all time? No? Then what good was all that attention? Advertising people are morons with a middle school level understanding of economics and psychology thinking they’re doing MKULTRA.
It’s corporate astrology. If their “marketing” increase sales, they’re genius Don Drapers. If they don’t move a single unit, then it’s the economy, or the competition, or anyone else’s fault except theirs. It’s why they invent a bunch of metrics like “churn rate” or “customer segmentation” or “CTRs”. So they can present a line that’s going up on a chart when actual sales are plateauing. This is not a joke.
At various points in my life, I’ve been surrounded by marketing people. At uni, I participated in their surveys for credits. I had to explain to a second year marketing student in a face to face interview thing that I recognise every single one of the brands she placed in front of me, but I had not purchased them, and seeing those brands more often would not make me more inclined to do so.
My best friend and housemate’s brother graduated top 5% of his class in Business/Marketing at one of the top universities in NSW and is always on some hair brained plan (while microdosing LSD) to boost engagement and reach for his company. By marketing metrics, he succeeded! Every metric the empty suits measure their successes with? They went up. His cafe went under in 2019 anyway. He blames the nearby Nepalese owned cafe that runs zero ads except a sign that says “open” and lists the special. He’s currently running for local office.
During the tail end of COVID lockdowns, the big boss of the local marketing firm would come to my restaurant and drink on Fridays. This motherfucker deadass said, 100% seriously, that this “TikTok” app that’s everywhere should be boosting the sales of TicTacs. He thought the app name was doing inadvertent advertising for the sugar treats for horse brained humans. This man, who made more than 10x I did as an “essential worker”, said it completely unironically.
These people are not geniuses who have hacked the human subconscious for the benefit of capital, they’re swindlers who started believing their own hype.
The reason why it’s mostly hocus is because modern marketing is based on modern western economics, and modern western economics isn’t based in science like dialectical materialism. It’s a branch of “study” developed by people who unironically believe in trickle down economics at worst and neoliberalism at best. They take something with a grain of truth in it (if a trusted friend recommends something, I’m more likely to check it out) and stretches it (if anyone recommends something, people are more likely to check it out) and finally contorts it to straight up pseudoscience.
If these empty suits tell the world that simply mentioning a product is actually boosting the product, you should be punching them in their face rather than taking their words at face value. They’re trying to make themselves seem more important and powerful than they actually are. They’re not even paper tigers (looks powerful until you get up close), they’re telling you they’re a paper tiger but please don’t open your eyes (there isn’t a tiger, paper or otherwise). They’re insulting your intelligence.
This post is “advertising” in the same way that a chiropractor is a “doctor”. Only if you believe it is.
i’ve met actual humans who called all sorts of random shit “spicy” and i eventually narrowed it down to vinegar, i have to assume they just think “spicy is when tongue feel something”
It’s weird, but spiciness is actually more than just capsaicin. Wasabi, mustard, and horseradish have allyl isothiocyanate; sichuan peppercorns have sanshools; ginger has gingerol. Most people recognize all of these in addition to capsaicin as spicy even though each is a different sensation and activates different receptors.
Vinegar does actually activate the same TRPV1 temperature/pain receptor that capsaicin does, so it’s not entirely surprising that people with very sheltered tastebuds would consider that sensation to be spicy.
Spicy is also a very broad term. It can mean hot, or it can simply mean flavoured with spices. Most spices aren’t actually hot, and it would be kind of odd to call a pumpkin spice latte spicy. My Chinese Malaysian mother always told me how Hokkien has different words for thermal heat and heat from chillis, and another for spicy.
it would be kind of odd to call a pumpkin spice latte spicy
Maybe if it was made by cowards. Scorpion pepper is the secret, lost mulling spice.
spoiler
Mulling spices are foul as hell in coffee though. They clash with it in a really unpleasant way.
Hokkien has different words for thermal heat and heat from chillis, and another for spicy.
the common word i often hear for spicy is hiam(?), but what’s the word for heat from chilis?
I’ve definitely heard a lot of white people like my mom use the term spicy for anything highly spiced.
Spicy in her mind is the same as “too flavorful” and this will generate a complaint as though you’re trying to fatally poison her, whether it’s ghost peppers or just a larger than expected quantity of garlic.
My father, on the other hand, is one of those guys that actively seeks out high Scoville unit food at restaurants and stuff.
I’ve definitely heard a lot of white people like my mom use the term spicy for anything highly spiced.
Spicy in her mind is the same as “too flavorful” and this will generate a complaint as though you’re trying to fatally poison her,
This is what I think of with chai, which is not even a little bit hot but absolutely has too much going on and needs to chill the fuck out
Wow thanks, I love food fun facts!
Was catching up with a buddy in China today that has some Spanish coworkers over there, and one of 'em told him that garlic and onion were ‘‘spicy’’ and he almost laughed in their face.
raw garlic can be ‘spicy’ though, even Chinese people use 辣 sometimes to describe the slight burning feeling from a lot of raw garlic (like in northern food) but it’s not the spicy of capsaicin
meanwhile i think tabasco is weak shit and don’t like the vinegar flavor
Paprika is made from peppers!!
Yes. But they didn’t even list ghost pepper in their “ghost pepper” sauce.
Idk maybe the current maintaince will “fix” that but it’s pretty obvious just a scam sauce for kirk stans
Counting or not counting bell peppers?
that’s me on seeing this post
some of y’all never had a spicy goulash made from hot Hungarian paprika and it shows
I don’t think they’re making a quality product here
This is basically just piquant vinegar
Unless that generic spices is hiding something…
As a child of Louisiana, piquant vinegar is our entire genre of hot sauce.
I enjoy a good Louisiana hot sauce sometimes, but I usually prefer Secret Aardvark
It’s got a lot more going on
Well as a current resident of Portland, I can tell you are a person of culture.
I like to maintain an array of hot sauces for different circumstances. In my kitchen at all times there will be:
- Louisiana hot sauce
- Mexican hot sauce
- buffalo sauce (a la Frank’s Red Hot)
- a thick one a la Secret Aardvark
- sriracha
- sambal
- lao gan ma
Highly recommend adding Pico Pica to that lineup.
Getting some now
Don’t tell my partner
Big same, my partner doesn’t do hot sauce and so she’s always like, “You have a whole shelf on the door of the fridge, stop enjoying flavors”
I exaggerate, but that’s almost the truth
You’ve reminded me that I need to make my own secret aardvark because I love that shit but it’s too damn expensive
Hot paprika still clocks in at less than anything people would call chilis
Reminds me of that part from Amazing Race when they were in Hungary and had to eat a bowl of goulash at a restaurant and the staff had to get some buckets because straight up everyone was puking their guts out.
It’s not that hot though
You can get some paprika at like 1000 scovilles. Admittedly that’s still pretty tame for hot sauce.
Oh that does sound tasty though
What if we made ketchup, but without tomatos and without sugar?
Idk they didn’t even try to have tomatoes in this
Only recently discovered ketchup without sugar. It just tastes better without any added sweeteners, it’s so savoury! Great on eggs.
I’ve heard mushroom ketchup is also killer. I kinda want to get both and try them out sometime
Fun fact ‘Ketchup’ without any descriptors used to refer to mushroom ketchup
alright now I feel like I really need to make a competing hot sauce brand called Kirk’d Hot Sauce and we sell large novelty bottles on our website with charlie kirk’s head as the cap with the dispenser on his neck
his face is too big I barely recognised him smh
Looks like pale shaven Edrogan or something
Hot ones but you’re just seasoning your food with salt and pre-ground black pepper.
please tell me it comes in a commemorative neck dispenser
It’s a DIY package. Just drill a hole in the side of the bottle.
For the full Kirk experience, shake well - after removing the cap.
don’t most slop hot sauces just add grains of capsaicin separate from peppers?
Yes and similarly this is how industry does jalapenos. They cultivate almost completely non-spicy jalapenos, use them for the pepper flavor, then add capsaicin to exact amounts. This is likely why supermarket jalapenos suck now.
Every once in a while I will use a shit ton of jalapeños expecting them to be lame bullshit and get a spicy batch. Always hard to predict
This is probably why they had to write a generic “spices” on the label.
Bonus, that’s the exact same ingredients as the ghost pepper version they sell.
Somehow all 3 are all 4/5 hot
So did the sauce come out while he was still alive or is this just pure grift?
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Okay I’m amazed it was registered in 2021
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i guess technically he was still alive as it was coming out
It needs to be a squirt bottle otherwise it’s inauthentic
