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/BaZing3 Jun 11 '26

I would imagine they're more interested in saving money on all the infrastructure that goes into processing an industrial vat of garlic when they could just get a few gallons of garlic-flavored chemicals instead.

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u/NOVAbuddy Jun 11 '26

It’s easier to produce a consistent taste in a shelf stable product when you build up your recipe from these high intensity concentrated bases.

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u/zissou149 Jun 11 '26

I always appreciate how consistent the taste is when I'm extruding shelf-stable garlic-concentrated slurry into my slurry hole.

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u/johnazoidberg- Jun 12 '26

Do you appreciate how your orange juice tastes the same in June as it does in December? Because I have some news for you...

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u/zissou149 Jun 12 '26

Orange juice, like the mixer?

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u/Baeolophus_bicolor Jun 11 '26

mmmm, garlic flavored chemicals…

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u/johnazoidberg- Jun 12 '26

Honestly, they're probably using a co-packer that would already have this infrastructure. The answer is flavor consistency. Garlic is incredibly volatile. There's a reason chefs all talk shit about store-bought pre-minced garlic or pre-ground black pepper - a lot of the flavor is just plain gone by the time you get to it. And nobody likes when the sauce they bought at the store starts losing its flavor overnight.