Horrifying image !!

[GntlKnigt1]

I am starting to count calories, and so googled for calories in mead. I ran across this posting and was horrified, and the following comments were not much better. If this is the image that you folks that own meaderies are fighting, then bless you and hope your ad campaigns can counter and educate the public. I know *I* try to do my little bit in my little corner of the world.

http://caloriecount.about.com/forums/the-lounge/mead

 

[WVMJack]

GK, a bunch of chunky girls drinking yummy mead, whats wrong with that? I am trying to round up a few to put on my mead label, I did corral a few but they thought it was a beauty shot and not a mead picture and wouldnt put on the Viking brassiers. Do you know its remarkable easy to find 44DD viking brassiers, thats the smallest size they start with, those girls in the olden days must have drunken a lot of yummy mead WVMJ

 

[Medsen Fey]

Someone needs to post on their site that mead has the same calorie count as that tasty little pink-colored white zinfandel that we all know and love.

Unfortunately, I'm not confident enough in my manhood to go registering over there.

Maybe Chevette Girl?

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[WVMJack]

I guess we now know what the GNTL of gntlknight meas Hey, thats a very old thread from 2006. Maybe some one confident in themselves could write a review for some of the meadmakers who actually have meaderies like Ken and get them some business.

I was at a very manly fermentation place and they were bottling pink stuff, I asked them why such a manly place would bottle pink stuff. Turns out its a clever marketing stratagey. You put a bottle of pink stuff out there, the wives and girlfriends immediately grab a bottle of it, they are very happy and let the manly guys buy more manly drinks. So instead of the guy coming in and talking his wife into letting him try 1 bottle of a manly drink, she is so happy she found something she can really enjoy she doesnt care what the old man gets, she is happy, dude is happy, owner of manly fermentation establishment just sold multiple bottles using pick stuff where he would have sold only 1 bottle to man with grumpy wife who didnt have something she could identify with. I apologize if this is a nonpolitically correct kind of post, but it is reality of selling more than 1 bottle at a time to couples WVMJ

 

[GntlKnigt1]

Well, i am not a marketing expert but if pink was it for women, then Pepto Bismol would be the drink of choice for women. The point i was making (even though it was 2006) is that a whole lot of work needs to be done. Maybe the American Meadmakers Association should start a "Got milk?" Sort of ad campaign..... Something less RenFaire and more NFL or (ugh) NASCAR. And maybe in conjunction with National Honey Board, and bee keepers associations....

 

[Chevette Girl]

Interesting article. At least they knew what mead is.

I don't actually drink often enough to bother counting the calories... actually, I don't count calories at all right now, I work a physical job and have been losing more weight than I wanted to... Sorry, no 44DD over here, although I probably know where to find a few ;D

And pink drinks? I dunno, actually my hubby's more likely to go for something pink, sweet and fizzy than I am (now, if it's purple, he'll have to fight me for it)... but I'm told I'm not precisely standard issue girl so standard marketing ploys may well not apply to me <cleans hands after changing fanbelt on 'vette, prepares to go fruit fly hunting with sticky paper>

...also, I read somewhere that in medieval times, pink was considered masculine and blue was feminine...

 

[kudapucat]

Nobody is standard. I know a few couples where the guy is more if a stereotypical girl, and the girls more of a bloke.
That's ok these days as not everything's gender based.
Some of my friends were awkward having a girl to card night, but now it's about 50/50. Mind you, I'd never ask their husbands to come!

Also: every guy with a sweet took secretly enjoys pink drinks.
I'll think of you next time I'm surreptitiously slurping on a fruit tingle.

 

[joemirando]

Perhaps someone running a commercial operation (a good one, not the ones that put out white wine laced with enough honey to give you cavities with one sip, or dessert 'meads' with an SG of 1.2xx) will eventually have tests done for dry, semi-sweet and sweet meads that we'll be able to use as a guideline. Until then, for me, it's all things in moderation. <G>

 

[bernardsmith]

Interesting article. At least they knew what mead is.

...also, I read somewhere that in medieval times, pink was considered masculine and blue was feminine...

I think that pink was a gender coded color for males up until the late 19th Century perhaps even later (blue being viewed as a calm color and reds being associated with heat and passion). Not sure why marketers in the USA decided in the 1920s to re-educate people to associate pink with women and blue with men. Perhaps it had something to do with hospital births vs home births and the use of color coding in hospitals (but previously children were simply dressed as small adults, weren't they?)

 

[fatbloke]

I think that pink was a gender coded color for males up until the late 19th Century perhaps even later (blue being viewed as a calm color and reds being associated with heat and passion). Not sure why marketers in the USA decided in the 1920s to re-educate people to associate pink with women and blue with men. Perhaps it had something to do with hospital births vs home births and the use of color coding in hospitals (but previously children were simply dressed as small adults, weren't they?)

Not just the US Bernard, the colour coded brainwashing starts very early here too.

Don't know what it is about pink clothing though. It seems from the male POV that women have to be quite dark skinned to get away with it. Your average, light skinned northern European looking chicks, to my mind anyway, having something of a porcine appearance, when wearing pink....

Maybe the marketeers should get that one on posters and they'd stop wearing that hideous colour overnight ;D