Content Mentioned in This Episode:
A Brief History of Racist Soft Drinks: https://qpnt.net/F4a4
Targeted Food Marketing to Black and Hispanic Consumers: The Tobacco Playbook: https://qpnt.net/F4a5
A $300 billion opportunity: Serving the emerging Black American consumer: https://qpnt.net/F4a7
Aspartame Is a Possible Cause of Cancer in Humans, a W.H.O. Agency Says: https://qpnt.net/F4a9
Chapters
00:00 QP 30 Second Pre-Roll
00:29 Intro Theme (Music by @DanyaVodovoz)
01:00 Welcome to Queue Points
04:13 Transition
04:19 Why we decided to focus on the topic of Black musicians and the food industry
05:17 Coke & Pepsi used race in their marketing plans
09:23 Aspartame is a controversial ingredient & why Jay Ray weened himself off of sodas
12:35 Food companies used "the tobacco playbook" to advertise to Black folks
16:19 McDonalds - the most strategic about their marketing
20:28 Black bodies have always been used as a commodity in the US - Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben
22:58 Break
23:03 @troypodcast Mid-Roll
23:50 How hard it is to do better with eating and drinking
25:01 Michael Jackson and Alfonso Ribeiro's Pepsi Commercial
28:58 Ella Fitzgerald & Shanice Wilson's KFC commercial
29:59 KFC used to hit different in the 80s and 90s
31:04 Kirk Franklin selling Church's Chicken? Yes, it happened
34:14 Donna Summer's "Hot Stuff" selling Chef Boyardee
36:18 So much of the food we grew up with was not good for us
36:55 McDonalds introduced us to "Calvin"
40:02 St. Ides introduced hip hop marketing
43:27 Sprite's creative hip hop marketing
46:51 Who are food companies using today?
49:41 Transition
49:46 Closing
50:38 Outro Theme
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