{"id":3527,"date":"2021-02-02T18:40:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-02T18:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.paranoidprofessor.com\/?p=3527"},"modified":"2021-01-23T23:43:07","modified_gmt":"2021-01-23T23:43:07","slug":"name-brand-recognition-or-coincidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.paranoidprofessor.com\/index.php\/2021\/02\/02\/name-brand-recognition-or-coincidence\/","title":{"rendered":"Name brand recognition or coincidence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When you work or live outside of the USA you sometimes want to have a taste for the familiar.  It is actually surprising just how many products that have a big footprint in the US have little or no market presence in other countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It has been ages since I wanted a peanut and jelly sandwich but I do like to have peanut butter from time to time on my bread.   Because peanut&#8217;s are not native to Europe a lot of peanut based foods are also not so common here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I don&#8217;t have a favorite local brand as they keep changing at my local supermarket.  I bought some a while back and I didn&#8217;t think anything about it until my wife surprised me with an actual US peanut butter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"366\" height=\"821\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.paranoidprofessor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/jiff-vs-jeff.jpeg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"3526\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/blog.paranoidprofessor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/jiff-vs-jeff.jpeg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/blog.paranoidprofessor.com\/jiff-vs-jeff\/\" class=\"wp-image-3526\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.paranoidprofessor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/jiff-vs-jeff.jpeg 366w, https:\/\/blog.paranoidprofessor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/jiff-vs-jeff-134x300.jpeg 134w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 366px) 100vw, 366px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It was then I notice the similarity.  I do not think that most people in Europe know anything about Jif peanut butter but I was surprised to see my local peanut butter looking similar to a familiar brand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you work or live outside of the USA you sometimes want to have a taste for the familiar. It is actually surprising just how many products that have a big footprint in the US have little or no market &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.paranoidprofessor.com\/index.php\/2021\/02\/02\/name-brand-recognition-or-coincidence\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[102],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paranoidprofessor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3527"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paranoidprofessor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paranoidprofessor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paranoidprofessor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paranoidprofessor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3527"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paranoidprofessor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3529,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paranoidprofessor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3527\/revisions\/3529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paranoidprofessor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paranoidprofessor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paranoidprofessor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}