Temu is advertising filet mignon on X

https://twitter.com/shoptemu/status/2053092200632685016

by noleary • 2 months ago

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supermdguy• 2 months ago

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/

IG_Semmelweiss• 2 months ago

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!

misterflibble• 2 months ago

Hahhahahahhaa

sigmar• 2 months ago

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.”"

jml7c5• 2 months ago

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.

guywithahat2• 2 months ago

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

mcphage• 2 months ago

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

SwiftyBug• 2 months ago

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.

triceratops• 2 months ago

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

guywithahat2• 2 months ago

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

bobbiechen• 2 months ago

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.

nielsbot• 2 months ago

Kosmo.com?

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

rcleveng• 2 months ago

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.

londons_explore• 2 months ago

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).

josefritzishere• 2 months ago

soylent green

red-iron-pine• 2 months ago

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?

Temu is advertising filet mignon on X

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