Trademarks Shows Amazon Has Sights On Meal-Kits, 'Single Cow Burgers' and Other Fast Food Options (techcrunch.com) 75
The latest business Amazon may expand into is the business of meal-kits. According to TechCrunch, Amazon recently filed a trademark (serial number 87517760) for "We do the prep. You be the chef," which relates to a meal-kit service similar to the kind offered by Blue Apron and others. From the report: Amazon describes the service simply: "Prepared food kits composed of meat, poultry, fish, seafood, fruit and/or and vegetables and also including sauces or seasonings, ready for cooking and assembly as a meal; Frozen, prepared, and packaged meals consisting of meat, poultry, fish, seafood, fruit and/or vegetables; fruit salads and vegetable salads; soups and preparations for making soups." It turns out that, in fact, company in the last seven months had registered at least two other trademarks for slightly shorter versions of the same meal kit concept. Respectively, serial numbers 87418923 and 87256976 for "We prep. You cook" and "No-line meal kits," also relate to food-kit services along with marketing related to them. Amazon also has been quietly developing its own lines of pre-made food aimed at people searching for more quality ingredients. The company has, for example, around 10 trademarks filed related to the phrase "single cow burger."
Single Cow Burger (Score:5, Funny)
A.K.A. the "regular" size option in America.
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Are you referring to the size of the cow or the size of the customer?
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One, then the other.
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A single cow burger just means the cow it was made of was unmarried. It's an important consideration if you're worried of being gored at the burger stand by an enraged bull in mourning.
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I was thinking either; the cow hasn't dated, or they don't grind more than one cow into that burger.
So if you die from the burger, you'll know which cow did it. Or, if it was a cow that was fooling around, that cow went to Hell which, along with killing you, is the proper punishment.
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I invented a device called 'Burger on the Go'. (Score:2)
It allows you to obtain 6 regular size hamburgers, or 12 sliders, from a horse without killing the animal. George Foreman is still considering it. Sharper Image is still considering it. Sky Mall's considering it. Hammacher Schlemer is still considering it.
Sears said, 'No'.
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Hey Dwight! Jim is planning to get you voted off the payroll again!!
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If the meat is from a horse [go.com], then it's a "horseburger" and not a hamburger, correct? But then it's overloaded with pigburger (hamburger). Or is it named after a town in Germany? Doesn't matter if it tastes good.
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I'd like a Horse Coke with that.
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Neigh.
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Take a guess what part of the bull Red Bull is made out of.
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It's bawls?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
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Near the place that you get asbergers?
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It's bile.
Or more accurately, none since it's artificially made today.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
No, sorry, it wasn't his nuts. Nice myth, though.
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While riding it? That's like selling parts of a car while driving it. "Pssst, dude, roll down your window, I gotta great deal on a distributor..."
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And that is precisely why they're bankrupt.
Trademarks for Sale (Score:2)
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Hehe, it means the beef patty was made with meat coming from only one animal, not that they made only one patty with that animal.
Apparently, a single McDonald's beef patty can be made with meat coming from 100 different animals.
Re: A single cow for my burger, awesome! (Score:1)
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How many cows would you like in your cheese burger sir?
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Are you fatshaming here?
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Nope, apparently, at McDonald's, you get 100 different cows in your single cheese burger.
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you get 100 different cows in your single cheese burger.
You didn't think that when the guys are busy tossing cow bits into the grinder to make ground beef that they keep track of which cows the bits come from and clean out the grinder between each one, did you?
Wait (Score:2)
Is this supposed to infer that current burgers come from multiple cows? I mean, that's awesome! It's an avenue I don't think we've ever really explored...mixing the meat from different cows, from different breeds, to make the perfect burger. It's hard to breed a single cow that has the perfect meat for a burger, but if we allow the mixing of several cows...we can do this, go science!
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Ok, let's mix some Texas Longhorn, Angus, and whatever counts as a Wagyu into a burger, and see what we get!
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Ever heard of the Big Mac?
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For Vegans ... (Score:2)
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I'm on a diet. Only half a bean, please.
a single cow? (Score:2)
As opposed to what? A married or divorced cow?
How strange. :P
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"Virgin cow" wouldn't have flown marketing wise so they settled for the more subtle version; "single cow"
Bachelor Chow (Score:2)
Now with flavor.
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How about a stick of butter wrapped into some bacon and deep fried? We could call it "gastritis calzone".
Given my experiences with Prime delivery (Score:2)
There's no way I'd replace Blue Apron with Amazon.
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If you are tied up with that 2 billion fantasy market cap for a nothing food kit preparer that is now using that money to buy farms which is high risk as it ties you down to particular suppliers and offends others but hey you need to have something real to prop up that 2 billion for as long as possible. Personally, that food kit, really kind of a fad, people who like to cook, like to pick their food items, it's part of the experience.
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I'm glad I can cook (Score:2)
Closest I've come is that steak company in the midwest that will send you steaks, mashed potatoes and whatever for a good 3x over the supermarket price. Granted, they were tasty as hell, but the price just meant I upped my game in the cooking department.
Groceries (Score:1)
Isn't what Amazon patenting here just another name for groceries? You go to the store, buy the ingredients for a meal, take them home, cook them, VoilÃ!
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Not really, meal kits are basically enough groceries in the right quantities to make a meal, so you don't end up buying a 2lb bag of rice when you needed a cup of it, or a dozen eggs when you only needed one, etc.
It's a problem when you're buying small quantities - I can't really cook some meals because I'd need eggs and milk, and the quantity I need i
Single cow? as opposed to multi-cow? (Score:2)
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You assume such people showered in the first place.
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What makes you think people shower just to buy shit? Have you ever been to Walmart? I'm already happy when they are wearing pajamas or underwear...
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Re: One more step (Score:1)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8zNsUTWsOc&ab_channel=infokalypse
Amazon better do something about the cold packs (Score:2)
Aside from that, I seriously question people so fucking lazy that they would avail of the
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Re: Amazon better do something about the cold pack (Score:1)
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I doubt you can.
The value of Anti-Trust laws. (Score:1)
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