EARLY ACCESS: Brand Loyalty to BUTTER?! (Land O Lakes)

I buy the same brand of butter only because I’ve found that it’s the only spreadable on that actually does what it claims to (spread without mangling my bread). The butter I buy for cooking or baking with I don’t care what brand as long as it’s unsalted.

Cogitated

I've never seen Joker, don't have a lot of interest in it. I've just never been a big Joaquin Phoenix fan... I think that the two movies he starred in for Paul Thomas Anderson (The Master and Inherent Vice) are Anderson's least enjoyable movies (for me anyway), and I'm not much of a DC fan. On top of that, I'm not overly interested in a Joker origin movie... I think the character is more interesting when you have no idea where he came from or what motivates him. It's unlikely that I'll ever see it.

Adam Buckley

Speaking of loyalty, I'm confused by the hype and love shown for 2019's 'Joker' movie, a bland, mundane, derivative and by the numbers film about a total psycho. But the divide is there already, a lot of people love it and a lot of people like me feel it is one of the most overrated films of the year. Say Buckley, as one comic book nerd to another I'm curious as to your thoughts on the subject. Surprised actually we haven't heard you pipe up on it already though perhaps it is too 'mainstream' a topic for you hehe :) Have a great weekend everyone.

I had this conversation about cream cheese with my boyfriend! He was bothered because I bought whatever was the cheapest and he was like, "I prefer only Philadelphia." I still think he's a bit nuts. Same as butter; it's all the same thing! Only reason I get a specific brand is due to allergies.

A_Fan

Protecting them or not Canada is doing something right. This article just shows how much better your country is lol. America is absolutely insane with what they call standards in milk production. Either way I use non dairy milks and butter. With the exception of ice cream and cheese once in awhile. But even those have good vegan options. Although I’m sure Canada and the rest of the world probably has even better vegan products. 🤷🏼‍♀️

Chantal

WELLL... Canada likes to tell us that our guidelines are tougher for food and food products (for example, in Canada, "pink slime" was banned LONG before they did it in the US), but in some cases, it might be a bit of a "protecting Canadian producers first". So like, you won't find American brands of dairy products here, as they've basically set up what they call a "sustainable system" but what others might call a cartel. Here's an article about the differences in US and Canadian milk. https://albertamilk.com/ask-dairy-farmer/difference-canadian-american-milk/

Adam Buckley

I’d like to focus on what you said in the beginning of this video. You mention that Canada only allows products that meet certain standards. Would that mean that your country actually sells food instead of a shot ton of by products that America tells us is food? I’ve been trying to switch to vegan brands anyway. Before this I bought Kerry Gold and before that I didn’t care 🤷🏼‍♀️ I only switched to Kerry Gold because I thought it was less processed (it might be I don’t actually know).

Chantal

I would say I buy whatever is cheapest, but now that I am working toward Veganism (slowly...) I buy what ever is cheapest and vegan. Honestly I stopped getting offended about things years ago. Maybe it is cow-towing to "SJWs" or maybe they're just not interested. I don't know and I don't really care. And I think that was the point so right on ya

As a Minnesota native (who happens to live close to the LOL HQ), I never understood why there’s an Indian Lady on the butter packaging. I’m fine with the new package (what’s wrong with lakes and forests anyway?!?!) and it reflects a lot of change in marketing for a lot of grocery store products to be Farmer Raised/Owned, etc. I’m even a proponent of having the logo be switched to Lando Calrissian: https://www.reddit.com/r/minnesota/comments/g96aq3/the_hero_minnesota_didnt_know_it_needed/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf I dug a little bit into the overall recent news of teams and brands re-designing themselves and the decision to remove the Indian Lady from Land O Lakes seems to follow how the Cleveland Indians getting rid of Chief Wahoo as their mascot last year. Apparently it’s more out of line to have caricature/stereotypical mascots and depictions of people than the name itself. There’s a huge push to rename the Washington Redskins team to something else since their team name originated in 1937 and people have been speaking out about the Redskins since the 1960s. “Redskins” is literally a racial put down in that people used to think the red skin Indigenous people had was because of all the fighting that occurred throughout history. Let’s switch the team to Redskin Potatoes (or at least that’s the joke people make when watching them play to make things less weird). Plus, all the fans do this really awkward Native American chant during the game (just sounds like a bunch of futball fans from Europe in the stands), which is unsettling given I know the history of Native American tribal dance and song. It’s....just really stupid to have in 2020 for gods sake https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-right-solution-for-washington-football-change-the-name-keep-the-logo/2018/02/05/5a879b24-09cf-11e8-998c-96deb18cca19_story.html

Rachel SJ

Perhaps he once dated someone who he bought the wrong butter for and suffered greatly for it. Check for any weird scars he doesn't want to explain...

Adam Buckley

Funny coincidence that I've just recently had this exact conversation with my bf while grocery shopping. Me: "I also need butter" Him: "I think it's over here, better look for yourself, I don't know whether you have any particular brand loyalty there" Me: "Uhh, that thought had never even crossed my mind, whatever's on sale I guess? Otherwise the cheapest one?" He agreed but the thought had somehow crossed his mind which was weird to me.

I live in the area Land O' Lakes was formed. The "butter maiden" logo was done by a Red Lake Ojibwe tribe member. I've heard some tribe members portray a sense of cultural loss at the removal of the artwork that mainly offended a Native American state representative from North Dakota, Ruth Buffalo, who is ironically a member of historically opposing tribes to the Ojibwe. It's like ancient tribal revenge! I'm not Native, so of course I bought whatever butter was cheapest at the store without even looking at the package to put on my discount popcorn that I'm eating while watching all the unaffiliated people share their opinions on the topic.

Brent Passarella

I love Buckley's bitchy tweet voice. So accurate. Sounds like the amalgamation of every asshole with too much free time and love of social media.

Dirrdevil

During the butter shortage, I went to the store and there were mostlyweird kinds of butter left, like vegetable butter and other kinds of strange butter. And I saw a butter called challenge butter. I turned to a lady at the store is challenge butter regular butter. And she looked at me like I was an idiot because challenge is the name of the brand. What kind of brand name is challenge?

Erica Foster

A child of the artist wrote this piece. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/04/29/my-ojibwe-father-drew-land-olakes-maiden-she-was-never-stereotype/

InfiniteIdeas

I’m admittedly abnormally attached to my preferred brand of butter (Meyenberg). But it’s a non-politicized & non-identity based attachment. It’s simply because they provide me a great option no one else is willing to make easily attainable. Im not crazed enough to get emotional over their packaging changes, marketing choices, political stances, or desired brand image though.