Americans, why don’t you want to consume farm-fresh vegetables?

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Anonymous wrote:I think it’s you. Not the vegetables.

Anonymous wrote:Because then they’d have to interact with nosy, judgmental, gossipy you. They are rightly gauging that you take notes on your neighbors, speculate and judge them, and even run to the Internet to try to drum up more speculation and gossip about them with total strangers.

I mean, yeah. In the space of six or seven sentences I already picked up that OP is over-invested and strange, and I don't want her having my contact information.

Can you imagine the email if you didn't order anything for a few weeks? Christ, no thanks. I have better options,a ll things considered.

I read the post differently. This isnt a commitment, more like on an impromptu basis. Sounds like a great setup to be honest.

Right. But she'd have my contact information one way or another -- email, phone number, address for delivery, something -- and eww, no.

I am willing to pay more not to have the instability of this kind of one-on-one interaction with people who smell a little "unhinged," in DCUM parlance.

Seriously, you sound like a Grinch. Nothing the OP said seems weird to me. It makes sense that the farm would prefer to deliver a larger order so what the OP is proposing sounds like a win-win for everyone.

Yeah, no. There's the aggressive pitch of the first post, and the focus on nationality. Some kind of prejudicial vibe there. OP has been sock-puppetting, too.

I eat a plant-focused diet and have so many better options. Those options involve people who are pleasant to interact with and appreciate my business, not send out irritable accusations and inflammatory rhetoric about my country.

Hey, I don't need to pay for that. Plenty of unhappy people give that for free. The food would feel tainted from it.

I’m American and I don’t dispute OP’s post. My sister is a nurse and doesn’t eat any vegetables. She feeds her kids junk food. I think we are so used to ultra processed crap that we don’t make a lot of effort to be healthy. I wonder if OP is an immigrant?

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Anonymous wrote:I think it’s you. Not the vegetables.

Anonymous wrote:Because then they’d have to interact with nosy, judgmental, gossipy you. They are rightly gauging that you take notes on your neighbors, speculate and judge them, and even run to the Internet to try to drum up more speculation and gossip about them with total strangers.

I mean, yeah. In the space of six or seven sentences I already picked up that OP is over-invested and strange, and I don't want her having my contact information.

Can you imagine the email if you didn't order anything for a few weeks? Christ, no thanks. I have better options,a ll things considered.

I read the post differently. This isnt a commitment, more like on an impromptu basis. Sounds like a great setup to be honest.

Right. But she'd have my contact information one way or another -- email, phone number, address for delivery, something -- and eww, no.

I am willing to pay more not to have the instability of this kind of one-on-one interaction with people who smell a little "unhinged," in DCUM parlance.

Seriously, you sound like a Grinch. Nothing the OP said seems weird to me. It makes sense that the farm would prefer to deliver a larger order so what the OP is proposing sounds like a win-win for everyone.

Yeah, no. There's the aggressive pitch of the first post, and the focus on nationality. Some kind of prejudicial vibe there. OP has been sock-puppetting, too.

I eat a plant-focused diet and have so many better options. Those options involve people who are pleasant to interact with and appreciate my business, not send out irritable accusations and inflammatory rhetoric about my country.

Hey, I don't need to pay for that. Plenty of unhappy people give that for free. The food would feel tainted from it.

I’m American and I don’t dispute OP’s post. My sister is a nurse and doesn’t eat any vegetables. She feeds her kids junk food. I think we are so used to ultra processed crap that we don’t make a lot of effort to be healthy. I wonder if OP is an immigrant?

If OP is an immigrant, she is welcome to a new life here. Our country is stronger for immigrants, especially those with the grit and motivation to run a small business.

Also, the fact that OP taking this so personally is one reason not to want to work with her. If her impulse is to wonder what is wrong with other people when they don't want her product? and then to start a thread insulting them for their choices, while commenting on her own thread as if she were someone else? That's not the right focus, lady. People can pick up on those vibes. It's quite elling.

If customers don't want your product, your first impulse should be to ask what you are doing wrong. People don't want what you are selling. It's either something unpleasant about you, or something wrong with the product, or there just isn't a niche that needs filling. And for god's sake, in this country, the path to success is not by insulting your customers. It also doesn't make you right.

There is still something wrong with your product or with how you present it. Given that there are plenty of people paying premium for good produce, maybe it's not that. Think about it.

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^^quite telling

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Anonymous wrote:Are they organic? Are they weird vegetables where I won't know what they are let alone how to cook them, or normal ones like carrots?

There’s something called Google. The weird-normal distinction in this PP’s post already tells you what you need to know OP.

This. Vegetables are not weird people. I don’t know why people just can’t admit they don’t care for vegetables. I know several in my circle who don’t consume any. I mean, you don’t think people had roasted beets out for their Super Bowl parties did they? It was all wings, nachos, and chips. Americans are just generally very unhealthy as a people.

I'd like to make you aware that cross-culturally, celebration food tends to be indulgent and NOT reflective of your everyday diet.

Also, vegetables are not one food! I make sure there's at least one vegetable in every dinner I make, but I don't love beets enough to make it worth the mess of cooking, and...thats ok because I don't actually grow my own food and depend on root vegetables from my backyard to avoid scurvy. I like a few beets dished but geez am I glad to have more options.

You may consume vegetables but the majority of Americans really don’t have them on their radar. I’m talking leafy greens, not peas and potatoes.

Is this a “majority…American “ culture thing? Everyone I know eats string beans, as well as greens, and most, even kids, eat a much wider variety than that. Even on a low veggie day I’d have a spinach omelette. That said, I’d have zero interest in the OP’s scheme. I already have markets that I’m happy with. Why would I want to change that to get whatever local vegetables might be available—via a stranger — in February?

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Anonymous wrote:I think it’s you. Not the vegetables.

Anonymous wrote:Because then they’d have to interact with nosy, judgmental, gossipy you. They are rightly gauging that you take notes on your neighbors, speculate and judge them, and even run to the Internet to try to drum up more speculation and gossip about them with total strangers.

I mean, yeah. In the space of six or seven sentences I already picked up that OP is over-invested and strange, and I don't want her having my contact information.

Can you imagine the email if you didn't order anything for a few weeks? Christ, no thanks. I have better options,a ll things considered.

I read the post differently. This isnt a commitment, more like on an impromptu basis. Sounds like a great setup to be honest.

Right. But she'd have my contact information one way or another -- email, phone number, address for delivery, something -- and eww, no.

I am willing to pay more not to have the instability of this kind of one-on-one interaction with people who smell a little "unhinged," in DCUM parlance.

Seriously, you sound like a Grinch. Nothing the OP said seems weird to me. It makes sense that the farm would prefer to deliver a larger order so what the OP is proposing sounds like a win-win for everyone.

Yeah, no. There's the aggressive pitch of the first post, and the focus on nationality. Some kind of prejudicial vibe there. OP has been sock-puppetting, too.

I eat a plant-focused diet and have so many better options. Those options involve people who are pleasant to interact with and appreciate my business, not send out irritable accusations and inflammatory rhetoric about my country.

Hey, I don't need to pay for that. Plenty of unhappy people give that for free. The food would feel tainted from it.

I’m American and I don’t dispute OP’s post. My sister is a nurse and doesn’t eat any vegetables. She feeds her kids junk food. I think we are so used to ultra processed crap that we don’t make a lot of effort to be healthy. I wonder if OP is an immigrant?

If OP is an immigrant, she is welcome to a new life here. Our country is stronger for immigrants, especially those with the grit and motivation to run a small business.

Also, the fact that OP taking this so personally is one reason not to want to work with her. If her impulse is to wonder what is wrong with other people when they don't want her product? and then to start a thread insulting them for their choices, while commenting on her own thread as if she were someone else? That's not the right focus, lady. People can pick up on those vibes. It's quite elling.

If customers don't want your product, your first impulse should be to ask what you are doing wrong. People don't want what you are selling. It's either something unpleasant about you, or something wrong with the product, or there just isn't a niche that needs filling. And for god's sake, in this country, the path to success is not by insulting your customers. It also doesn't make you right.

There is still something wrong with your product or with how you present it. Given that there are plenty of people paying premium for good produce, maybe it's not that. Think about it.

Sorry but why are you so invested in the OP? It's so funny you think she is so invested in what people eat but you are just as bad coming back to this thread multiple times. Ok, you don't like her idea, we already get the picture.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think it’s you. Not the vegetables.

Anonymous wrote:Because then they’d have to interact with nosy, judgmental, gossipy you. They are rightly gauging that you take notes on your neighbors, speculate and judge them, and even run to the Internet to try to drum up more speculation and gossip about them with total strangers.

I mean, yeah. In the space of six or seven sentences I already picked up that OP is over-invested and strange, and I don't want her having my contact information.

Can you imagine the email if you didn't order anything for a few weeks? Christ, no thanks. I have better options,a ll things considered.

I read the post differently. This isnt a commitment, more like on an impromptu basis. Sounds like a great setup to be honest.

Right. But she'd have my contact information one way or another -- email, phone number, address for delivery, something -- and eww, no.

I am willing to pay more not to have the instability of this kind of one-on-one interaction with people who smell a little "unhinged," in DCUM parlance.

Seriously, you sound like a Grinch. Nothing the OP said seems weird to me. It makes sense that the farm would prefer to deliver a larger order so what the OP is proposing sounds like a win-win for everyone.

Yeah, no. There's the aggressive pitch of the first post, and the focus on nationality. Some kind of prejudicial vibe there. OP has been sock-puppetting, too.

I eat a plant-focused diet and have so many better options. Those options involve people who are pleasant to interact with and appreciate my business, not send out irritable accusations and inflammatory rhetoric about my country.

Hey, I don't need to pay for that. Plenty of unhappy people give that for free. The food would feel tainted from it.

I’m American and I don’t dispute OP’s post. My sister is a nurse and doesn’t eat any vegetables. She feeds her kids junk food. I think we are so used to ultra processed crap that we don’t make a lot of effort to be healthy. I wonder if OP is an immigrant?

If OP is an immigrant, she is welcome to a new life here. Our country is stronger for immigrants, especially those with the grit and motivation to run a small business.

Also, the fact that OP taking this so personally is one reason not to want to work with her. If her impulse is to wonder what is wrong with other people when they don't want her product? and then to start a thread insulting them for their choices, while commenting on her own thread as if she were someone else? That's not the right focus, lady. People can pick up on those vibes. It's quite elling.

If customers don't want your product, your first impulse should be to ask what you are doing wrong. People don't want what you are selling. It's either something unpleasant about you, or something wrong with the product, or there just isn't a niche that needs filling. And for god's sake, in this country, the path to success is not by insulting your customers. It also doesn't make you right.

There is still something wrong with your product or with how you present it. Given that there are plenty of people paying premium for good produce, maybe it's not that. Think about it.

Sorry but why are you so invested in the OP? It's so funny you think she is so invested in what people eat but you are just as bad coming back to this thread multiple times. Ok, you don't like her idea, we already get the picture.

I’m a new poster who just read through the whole thread, and I think you’re deliberately mischaracterizing the poster you’re quoting. It’s not that she doesn’t like OP’s idea, as you say. She finds OP’s delivery abrasive and wouldn’t want to deal with her based upon that, and frankly, I agree.

The way the original post reads, I assume that if I knew OP and she asked what I was doing for Valentines Day and I said “nothing” she’d come post here in the relationship forum asking “Why American women don’t love their husbands?” People don’t want to deal with someone like that. It’s overwrought and over dramatic and full of judgments and assumptions. If she’d posted here and posited the question differently, she’d be getting a different reaction.

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I am not going to waste money on fake farm fresh where I cannot even pick what I want.

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Anonymous wrote:Why would you assume they don't want to eat veggies rather than assume they prefer to get their veggies elsewhere? Weird.

Because it’s farm fresh?

Who cares?

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Anonymous wrote:I think it’s you. Not the vegetables.

Anonymous wrote:Because then they’d have to interact with nosy, judgmental, gossipy you. They are rightly gauging that you take notes on your neighbors, speculate and judge them, and even run to the Internet to try to drum up more speculation and gossip about them with total strangers.

I mean, yeah. In the space of six or seven sentences I already picked up that OP is over-invested and strange, and I don't want her having my contact information.

Can you imagine the email if you didn't order anything for a few weeks? Christ, no thanks. I have better options,a ll things considered.

+1,000,000. At minimum, OP is very poor at picking up social cues.

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Your vibes are rancid OP and customers pick up on that from a mile away

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Anonymous wrote:I think it’s you. Not the vegetables.

Anonymous wrote:Because then they’d have to interact with nosy, judgmental, gossipy you. They are rightly gauging that you take notes on your neighbors, speculate and judge them, and even run to the Internet to try to drum up more speculation and gossip about them with total strangers.

I mean, yeah. In the space of six or seven sentences I already picked up that OP is over-invested and strange, and I don't want her having my contact information.

Can you imagine the email if you didn't order anything for a few weeks? Christ, no thanks. I have better options,a ll things considered.

I read the post differently. This isnt a commitment, more like on an impromptu basis. Sounds like a great setup to be honest.

Right. But she'd have my contact information one way or another -- email, phone number, address for delivery, something -- and eww, no.

I am willing to pay more not to have the instability of this kind of one-on-one interaction with people who smell a little "unhinged," in DCUM parlance.

Seriously, you sound like a Grinch. Nothing the OP said seems weird to me. It makes sense that the farm would prefer to deliver a larger order so what the OP is proposing sounds like a win-win for everyone.

Yeah, no. There's the aggressive pitch of the first post, and the focus on nationality. Some kind of prejudicial vibe there. OP has been sock-puppetting, too.

I eat a plant-focused diet and have so many better options. Those options involve people who are pleasant to interact with and appreciate my business, not send out irritable accusations and inflammatory rhetoric about my country.

Hey, I don't need to pay for that. Plenty of unhappy people give that for free. The food would feel tainted from it.

I’m American and I don’t dispute OP’s post. My sister is a nurse and doesn’t eat any vegetables. She feeds her kids junk food. I think we are so used to ultra processed crap that we don’t make a lot of effort to be healthy. I wonder if OP is an immigrant?

If OP is an immigrant, she is welcome to a new life here. Our country is stronger for immigrants, especially those with the grit and motivation to run a small business.

Also, the fact that OP taking this so personally is one reason not to want to work with her. If her impulse is to wonder what is wrong with other people when they don't want her product? and then to start a thread insulting them for their choices, while commenting on her own thread as if she were someone else? That's not the right focus, lady. People can pick up on those vibes. It's quite elling.

If customers don't want your product, your first impulse should be to ask what you are doing wrong. People don't want what you are selling. It's either something unpleasant about you, or something wrong with the product, or there just isn't a niche that needs filling. And for god's sake, in this country, the path to success is not by insulting your customers. It also doesn't make you right.

There is still something wrong with your product or with how you present it. Given that there are plenty of people paying premium for good produce, maybe it's not that. Think about it.

Sorry but why are you so invested in the OP? It's so funny you think she is so invested in what people eat but you are just as bad coming back to this thread multiple times. Ok, you don't like her idea, we already get the picture.

Don't ask the question if you don't want to get the answer, OP.

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OP doesn’t sound intelligent.

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I don't see any difference with the vegetables at the grocery store and the ones in a CSA. Other than the fact that the grocery store has nicer looking vegetables and more variety.

How is "farm fresh" different from the vegetables in the grocery store that also came from a farm?

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Anonymous wrote:I don't see any difference with the vegetables at the grocery store and the ones in a CSA. Other than the fact that the grocery store has nicer looking vegetables and more variety.

How is "farm fresh" different from the vegetables in the grocery store that also came from a farm?

Well, they were driven around on a smaller truck. I assume it is obvious why this makes a difference.

Farm Fresh!

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I do.

That is unrelated to your actual question though, which is why don't I want to be a part of your personal marketing set up.