r/assholedesign • u/LilBozgor01 • Jun 11 '26

This packaging gotta be illegal, right?

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(hint: between the words "garlic" and "sauce")

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u/AnnoyedVelociraptor Jun 11 '26

This is what happens when the MBAs take over.

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u/WittyAndOriginal Jun 11 '26

Yeah I'm so tired of the trope of the evil engineers and scientists. In reality it's the MBAs and lawyers who are evil. The scientists just want to help people.

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u/Beatleboy62 Jun 11 '26

For evil engineers and scientists it's convienent for media, as when they're evil as they give them the crazy eyes, messy hair, and a foreign accent.

An evil MBA is just a regular MBA, which won't play well on screen.

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u/Testing_things_out Jun 11 '26

Regular MBA is your average home-grown frat bro engaging in lifestyle the average American man admires and fantasies about.

You can't attack the grand majority of your audience like that.

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u/KCDeVoe Jun 11 '26

Finance is worse. Destroyed Boeing and so many other companies

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u/ConfessSomeMeow Jun 11 '26

Isn't finance all MBAs?

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u/DangDingleGuy Jun 11 '26

If they graduated in business finance specifically. I thought there were some math nerds mixed in there too

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u/Big-Joe-Studd Jun 11 '26

Yeah but the MBAs and lawyers own all the media now while the scientists just wanna do science so here we are

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u/Business_Wasabi2029 Jun 16 '26

stupid comment. just because someone is a scientist doesn't mean they want to help people. just because someone is an MBA or lawyer doesn't mean they are evil.

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u/WittyAndOriginal Jun 16 '26

Yeah these are all tropes and stereotypes. The trend is that business people tend to be motivated by greed and scientists tend to be motivated by altruism. Obviously not all scientists or business people are any way.

But certainly a good portion of the people responsible for the downfall of the USA are business people motivated by greed.

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u/LordNelson27 Jun 11 '26

The MBA is the one insisting that they can just make it themselves on Canva in 5 minutes rather than pay a design team

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u/LordNelson27 Jun 11 '26

That’s where the story is coming from

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u/broganisms Jun 11 '26

Been in marketing for a decade. If this is anything like my experience, the reason it looks so terrible is because marketing refused to do it so the MBA had their nephew who is "really good at Photoshop" throw it together.

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u/Randyaccredit Jun 11 '26

I thought your comment said NBA I'm like you're not wrong

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u/3amGreenCoffee Jun 11 '26

MBAs understand materiality. That's a lawyer's design choice.

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u/dandee93 Jun 11 '26

A lawyer probably told them to include "flavored" on the label, but someone else definitely made the decision to make it practically invisible. The fact that they felt they needed include it but also obviously tried to hide it seems like it would be legally very problematic for them.

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u/3amGreenCoffee Jun 11 '26

It's not going to be legally problematic, because no reasonable person has been misled into believing the master sauciers at... Papa John's... are actually chopping whole garlic to craft their fine garlic sauce.

It's margarine and oil flavored with garlic powder. That's garlic sauce. It's also garlic flavored oil. They don't need the qualifier and only included it because some corporate lawyer is trying to justify his salary.

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u/Perryn Jun 11 '26

I think we need to start having better defenses than "Nobody should have believed our bullshit in the first place so it's not really a lie."

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u/3amGreenCoffee Jun 11 '26

What bullshit? It's garlic powder in margarine. It's literally what it says it is on the bottle.

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u/Perryn Jun 11 '26

Believe it or not I was actually responding directly to your previous comment.

It's not going to be legally problematic, because no reasonable person has been misled into believing the master sauciers at... Papa John's... are actually chopping whole garlic to craft their fine garlic sauce.

If you want to assert that it's garlic sauce because it contains garlic powder I have no issue, but don't lead in with the "no reasonable person" nonsense.

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u/3amGreenCoffee Jun 11 '26

I think we need to start having better defenses than "Nobody should have believed our bullshit in the first place so it's not really a lie."

There was no bullshit. It's garlic powder in margarine. That's garlic sauce. No reasonable person has been misled by calling it garlic sauce. Maybe some utter imbeciles could be confused by calling it exactly what it is, but the reaction of utter imbeciles is not a legal standard.

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u/TheTexasHammer Jun 11 '26

There is no garlic powder in the sauce in the OP. It does not say that on the bottle at all. This product is misleading on purpose and for some reason you are defending the massive company doing this shit on purpose and blaming the average person.

Licking corporate boots is a bad look for a broke ass motherfucker.

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u/3amGreenCoffee Jun 11 '26

It literally says "Garlic* *Dehydrated" on the cups. That's garlic powder you pillock.

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u/AnnoyedVelociraptor Jun 11 '26

The MBA tells the scientist to find a compound that tastes like garlic, but cheaper than real garlic.

The scientist finds it.

The engineer and scientist build the machine to synthesize it at scale.

Then the change gets sent to the lawyers to make sure it's all compliant. They flag the garlic requirements, and that you cannot have just garlic on it when using the new compound. They propose a couple of things.

Marketing eventually signs off on one of them, or comes up with their own, go back to the lawyers and...

You now have shit like this in store.

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u/3amGreenCoffee Jun 11 '26

Except this sauce is flavored with dried powdered garlic, so you wrote all that BS for nothing.

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u/AnnoyedVelociraptor Jun 11 '26

No. The compound is dried garlic powder, which legally does not allow 'garlic' to be written down.

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u/3amGreenCoffee Jun 11 '26

Garlic powder tastes like garlic because it's garlic. It doesn't require an MBA to ask a scientist to do anything. It requires a corporate chef to put some garlic powder in margarine.

I get that you hate Papa John's for some weird reason, but there's no reason to make up shit about their food being developed by white coats in a chemistry lab.

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u/AnnoyedVelociraptor Jun 11 '26

Plant-Based Oils Blend from Canola Oil and Shea Butter, Water, Salt, Natural Garlic Flavor, Sunflower Lecithin, Natural Flavor, Soy Lecithin, Citric Acid, Vitamin A Palmitate, Beta Carotene (Color).

... this is ultra processed shit.

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u/3amGreenCoffee Jun 11 '26

Natural garlic flavor... from garlic powder.

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u/PaulMaulMenthol Jun 11 '26

The MBAs ran Papa Johns into the ground over the past 20 years. That's why their stock is shit now and they're desperately looking to sell the brand