(09-05-2019 02:14 PM)The T-Shirt Wrote: So Graeters, after releasing a Buckeye themed pint this week (game week), they have now said that with a UC win Saturday, they'll finally "pint" the boldly bearcat flavor. This after last year asking for 40,000 retweets of a certain tweet to "pint" it then.
A Cincinnati based company making the hometown fans jump through hoops to get support for the local university.
I know I'm switching to UDF.
They deleted that tweet when like 90% of the responses were incredibly negative
I love me some Graeter's salted caramel chip but someone needs to remind Graeter's which city they are in and it ain't Columbus.
(09-05-2019 02:14 PM)The T-Shirt Wrote: So Graeters, after releasing a Buckeye themed pint this week (game week), they have now said that with a UC win Saturday, they'll finally "pint" the boldly bearcat flavor. This after last year asking for 40,000 retweets of a certain tweet to "pint" it then.
A Cincinnati based company making the hometown fans jump through hoops to get support for the local university.
I know I'm switching to UDF.
They deleted that tweet when like 90% of the responses were incredibly negative
I love me some Graeter's salted caramel chip but someone needs to remind Graeter's which city they are in and it ain't Columbus.
They are in Columbus too.
Yes but they are from Cincinnati and the corporate HQ is here. We've had Graeters in Cincinnati since 1889. They've had Graeter's in Columbus since 1992.
(09-05-2019 02:14 PM)The T-Shirt Wrote: So Graeters, after releasing a Buckeye themed pint this week (game week), they have now said that with a UC win Saturday, they'll finally "pint" the boldly bearcat flavor. This after last year asking for 40,000 retweets of a certain tweet to "pint" it then.
A Cincinnati based company making the hometown fans jump through hoops to get support for the local university.
I know I'm switching to UDF.
They deleted that tweet when like 90% of the responses were incredibly negative
I love me some Graeter's salted caramel chip but someone needs to remind Graeter's which city they are in and it ain't Columbus.
They are in Columbus too.
Yes but they are from Cincinnati and the corporate HQ is here. We've had Graeters in Cincinnati since 1889. They've had Graeter's in Columbus since 1992.
I totally agree with this post about Graeters being "from" Cincy. I was just being flippant. I also understand that there are more OSU fans out there than Cincy fans. What they should have done, though, is "pint" both, make a competition of how much of each they sold and donate to each school's scholarship fund. Instead, they decided to make a stupid comment about if UC wins, then they will pint their flavor. I love Graeters but this wasn't a good PR move to alienate customers in their hometown. People vote with their wallets a lot these days.
(09-05-2019 03:57 PM)BearcatMan Wrote: They deleted that tweet when like 90% of the responses were incredibly negative
I love me some Graeter's salted caramel chip but someone needs to remind Graeter's which city they are in and it ain't Columbus.
They are in Columbus too.
Yes but they are from Cincinnati and the corporate HQ is here. We've had Graeters in Cincinnati since 1889. They've had Graeter's in Columbus since 1992.
I totally agree with this post about Graeters being "from" Cincy. I was just being flippant. I also understand that there are more OSU fans out there than Cincy fans. What they should have done, though, is "pint" both, make a competition of how much of each they sold and donate to each school's scholarship fund. Instead, they decided to make a stupid comment about if UC wins, then they will pint their flavor. I love Graeters but this wasn't a good PR move to alienate customers in their hometown. People vote with their wallets a lot these days.
The UC Football Twitter account chimed in on The Graet Ice Cream Debacle of 2019. They responded to the Tweet about pinting the Boldly Bearcat flavor if they win saying that if UC wins they should pint Boldly Bearcat AND rebrand the Buckeye Blitz. Coming strong there. Graeter's will never rebrand the Buckeye Blitz, nor should they, but they could do more for their hometown school.
FYI, for those flipping out over the Buckeye Blitz flavor, Graeter's has had that one for years and have had older packaging featuring the OSU mascot. The issue started when they announced new packaging for the flavor during UC/OSU game week and a lot of people mistook this for a release of the flavor altogether.
(09-05-2019 02:48 PM)Def Berkkat Wrote: I've never liked graeters. Never seen the attraction to bland, sugary ice cream. I'm convinced most people say they like it because Orca, I mean, Oprah does.
1. No other ice cream I've had has the chocolate chunks Graeter's has.
2. Toffee chip. Best toffee/chocolate ice cream ever. 3 UDF ice cream has a fraction of the creaminess that Graeter's has. 4. Graeter's has been around decades before Oprah
5. Getting a chocolate covered cone at Graeter's is a much more pleasant experience than waiting for a cone from slow, distracted employees at any UDF.
Say What???? I question if you've even had UDF old fashioned ice cream...
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09-06-2019 06:52 AM
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(09-05-2019 08:05 PM)mptnstr@44 Wrote: I love me some Graeter's salted caramel chip but someone needs to remind Graeter's which city they are in and it ain't Columbus.
They are in Columbus too.
Yes but they are from Cincinnati and the corporate HQ is here. We've had Graeters in Cincinnati since 1889. They've had Graeter's in Columbus since 1992.
I totally agree with this post about Graeters being "from" Cincy. I was just being flippant. I also understand that there are more OSU fans out there than Cincy fans. What they should have done, though, is "pint" both, make a competition of how much of each they sold and donate to each school's scholarship fund. Instead, they decided to make a stupid comment about if UC wins, then they will pint their flavor. I love Graeters but this wasn't a good PR move to alienate customers in their hometown. People vote with their wallets a lot these days.
The UC Football Twitter account chimed in on The Graet Ice Cream Debacle of 2019. They responded to the Tweet about pinting the Boldly Bearcat flavor if they win saying that if UC wins they should pint Boldly Bearcat AND rebrand the Buckeye Blitz. Coming strong there. Graeter's will never rebrand the Buckeye Blitz, nor should they, but they could do more for their hometown school.
FYI, for those flipping out over the Buckeye Blitz flavor, Graeter's has had that one for years and have had older packaging featuring the OSU mascot. The issue started when they announced new packaging for the flavor during UC/OSU game week and a lot of people mistook this for a release of the flavor altogether.
That's why I'm confused by a lot of the outrage of that flavor even existing...it has been around for multiple decades now
(09-05-2019 08:18 PM)bearcatdp Wrote: They are in Columbus too.
Yes but they are from Cincinnati and the corporate HQ is here. We've had Graeters in Cincinnati since 1889. They've had Graeter's in Columbus since 1992.
I totally agree with this post about Graeters being "from" Cincy. I was just being flippant. I also understand that there are more OSU fans out there than Cincy fans. What they should have done, though, is "pint" both, make a competition of how much of each they sold and donate to each school's scholarship fund. Instead, they decided to make a stupid comment about if UC wins, then they will pint their flavor. I love Graeters but this wasn't a good PR move to alienate customers in their hometown. People vote with their wallets a lot these days.
The UC Football Twitter account chimed in on The Graet Ice Cream Debacle of 2019. They responded to the Tweet about pinting the Boldly Bearcat flavor if they win saying that if UC wins they should pint Boldly Bearcat AND rebrand the Buckeye Blitz. Coming strong there. Graeter's will never rebrand the Buckeye Blitz, nor should they, but they could do more for their hometown school.
FYI, for those flipping out over the Buckeye Blitz flavor, Graeter's has had that one for years and have had older packaging featuring the OSU mascot. The issue started when they announced new packaging for the flavor during UC/OSU game week and a lot of people mistook this for a release of the flavor altogether.
That's why I'm confused by a lot of the outrage of that flavor even existing...it has been around for multiple decades now
People are upset, including myself, because we've been begging for a year now for Boldy Bearcat to be pinted and instead they go and do the new rebrand soley on the Buckeye Blitz the week of the game. Then rub salt in the wound by giving the team an incredibly hard task to accomplish just to do something they should have already done.
(09-05-2019 08:18 PM)bearcatdp Wrote: They are in Columbus too.
Yes but they are from Cincinnati and the corporate HQ is here. We've had Graeters in Cincinnati since 1889. They've had Graeter's in Columbus since 1992.
I totally agree with this post about Graeters being "from" Cincy. I was just being flippant. I also understand that there are more OSU fans out there than Cincy fans. What they should have done, though, is "pint" both, make a competition of how much of each they sold and donate to each school's scholarship fund. Instead, they decided to make a stupid comment about if UC wins, then they will pint their flavor. I love Graeters but this wasn't a good PR move to alienate customers in their hometown. People vote with their wallets a lot these days.
The UC Football Twitter account chimed in on The Graet Ice Cream Debacle of 2019. They responded to the Tweet about pinting the Boldly Bearcat flavor if they win saying that if UC wins they should pint Boldly Bearcat AND rebrand the Buckeye Blitz. Coming strong there. Graeter's will never rebrand the Buckeye Blitz, nor should they, but they could do more for their hometown school.
FYI, for those flipping out over the Buckeye Blitz flavor, Graeter's has had that one for years and have had older packaging featuring the OSU mascot. The issue started when they announced new packaging for the flavor during UC/OSU game week and a lot of people mistook this for a release of the flavor altogether.
That's why I'm confused by a lot of the outrage of that flavor even existing...it has been around for multiple decades now
I'm guessing it's a combination of many people not realizing this was an actual flavor with actual ties to Ohio State, the extremely poor timing of the new packaging reveal, and good old 2019 internet outrage/mob mentality.
(09-05-2019 08:36 PM)mptnstr@44 Wrote: Yes but they are from Cincinnati and the corporate HQ is here. We've had Graeters in Cincinnati since 1889. They've had Graeter's in Columbus since 1992.
I totally agree with this post about Graeters being "from" Cincy. I was just being flippant. I also understand that there are more OSU fans out there than Cincy fans. What they should have done, though, is "pint" both, make a competition of how much of each they sold and donate to each school's scholarship fund. Instead, they decided to make a stupid comment about if UC wins, then they will pint their flavor. I love Graeters but this wasn't a good PR move to alienate customers in their hometown. People vote with their wallets a lot these days.
The UC Football Twitter account chimed in on The Graet Ice Cream Debacle of 2019. They responded to the Tweet about pinting the Boldly Bearcat flavor if they win saying that if UC wins they should pint Boldly Bearcat AND rebrand the Buckeye Blitz. Coming strong there. Graeter's will never rebrand the Buckeye Blitz, nor should they, but they could do more for their hometown school.
FYI, for those flipping out over the Buckeye Blitz flavor, Graeter's has had that one for years and have had older packaging featuring the OSU mascot. The issue started when they announced new packaging for the flavor during UC/OSU game week and a lot of people mistook this for a release of the flavor altogether.
That's why I'm confused by a lot of the outrage of that flavor even existing...it has been around for multiple decades now
I'm guessing it's a combination of many people not realizing this was an actual flavor with actual ties to Ohio State, the extremely poor timing of the new packaging reveal, and good old 2019 internet outrage/mob mentality.
You keep forgetting requiring the team to do something they have a very slim chance to do. Why such a task? They did the same bull**** last year with a 40k retweet thing too. They just don't know how to advertise
(09-05-2019 08:36 PM)mptnstr@44 Wrote: Yes but they are from Cincinnati and the corporate HQ is here. We've had Graeters in Cincinnati since 1889. They've had Graeter's in Columbus since 1992.
I totally agree with this post about Graeters being "from" Cincy. I was just being flippant. I also understand that there are more OSU fans out there than Cincy fans. What they should have done, though, is "pint" both, make a competition of how much of each they sold and donate to each school's scholarship fund. Instead, they decided to make a stupid comment about if UC wins, then they will pint their flavor. I love Graeters but this wasn't a good PR move to alienate customers in their hometown. People vote with their wallets a lot these days.
The UC Football Twitter account chimed in on The Graet Ice Cream Debacle of 2019. They responded to the Tweet about pinting the Boldly Bearcat flavor if they win saying that if UC wins they should pint Boldly Bearcat AND rebrand the Buckeye Blitz. Coming strong there. Graeter's will never rebrand the Buckeye Blitz, nor should they, but they could do more for their hometown school.
FYI, for those flipping out over the Buckeye Blitz flavor, Graeter's has had that one for years and have had older packaging featuring the OSU mascot. The issue started when they announced new packaging for the flavor during UC/OSU game week and a lot of people mistook this for a release of the flavor altogether.
That's why I'm confused by a lot of the outrage of that flavor even existing...it has been around for multiple decades now
I'm guessing it's a combination of many people not realizing this was an actual flavor with actual ties to Ohio State, the extremely poor timing of the new packaging reveal, and good old 2019 internet outrage/mob mentality.
I am well aware that Buckeye Blitz has existed for a long time, I think most of the outrage came over Graeter's twitter post informing UC fans that they will only sell Bodly Bearcat if UC wins the game. Putting a condition out there came across as d-baggery of the highest level. The tweet came across with the same condescension that Stan Gable gave the Nerds when he informed they could only join the Greek Council after they won the campus-wide Olympic games*
*For you young people this a reference to the 80s movie Revenge of the Nerds.
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09-06-2019 08:13 AM
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(09-05-2019 09:04 PM)bearcatdp Wrote: I totally agree with this post about Graeters being "from" Cincy. I was just being flippant. I also understand that there are more OSU fans out there than Cincy fans. What they should have done, though, is "pint" both, make a competition of how much of each they sold and donate to each school's scholarship fund. Instead, they decided to make a stupid comment about if UC wins, then they will pint their flavor. I love Graeters but this wasn't a good PR move to alienate customers in their hometown. People vote with their wallets a lot these days.
The UC Football Twitter account chimed in on The Graet Ice Cream Debacle of 2019. They responded to the Tweet about pinting the Boldly Bearcat flavor if they win saying that if UC wins they should pint Boldly Bearcat AND rebrand the Buckeye Blitz. Coming strong there. Graeter's will never rebrand the Buckeye Blitz, nor should they, but they could do more for their hometown school.
FYI, for those flipping out over the Buckeye Blitz flavor, Graeter's has had that one for years and have had older packaging featuring the OSU mascot. The issue started when they announced new packaging for the flavor during UC/OSU game week and a lot of people mistook this for a release of the flavor altogether.
That's why I'm confused by a lot of the outrage of that flavor even existing...it has been around for multiple decades now
I'm guessing it's a combination of many people not realizing this was an actual flavor with actual ties to Ohio State, the extremely poor timing of the new packaging reveal, and good old 2019 internet outrage/mob mentality.
You keep forgetting requiring the team to do something they have a very slim chance to do. Why such a task? They did the same bull**** last year with a 40k retweet thing too. They just don't know how to advertise
Oh no, I get that part...it's the people complaining about there being a "Buckeye Blitz" flavor in the first place who are the ones I don't understand.
(09-05-2019 09:04 PM)bearcatdp Wrote: I totally agree with this post about Graeters being "from" Cincy. I was just being flippant. I also understand that there are more OSU fans out there than Cincy fans. What they should have done, though, is "pint" both, make a competition of how much of each they sold and donate to each school's scholarship fund. Instead, they decided to make a stupid comment about if UC wins, then they will pint their flavor. I love Graeters but this wasn't a good PR move to alienate customers in their hometown. People vote with their wallets a lot these days.
The UC Football Twitter account chimed in on The Graet Ice Cream Debacle of 2019. They responded to the Tweet about pinting the Boldly Bearcat flavor if they win saying that if UC wins they should pint Boldly Bearcat AND rebrand the Buckeye Blitz. Coming strong there. Graeter's will never rebrand the Buckeye Blitz, nor should they, but they could do more for their hometown school.
FYI, for those flipping out over the Buckeye Blitz flavor, Graeter's has had that one for years and have had older packaging featuring the OSU mascot. The issue started when they announced new packaging for the flavor during UC/OSU game week and a lot of people mistook this for a release of the flavor altogether.
That's why I'm confused by a lot of the outrage of that flavor even existing...it has been around for multiple decades now
I'm guessing it's a combination of many people not realizing this was an actual flavor with actual ties to Ohio State, the extremely poor timing of the new packaging reveal, and good old 2019 internet outrage/mob mentality.
I am well aware that Buckeye Blitz has existed for a long time, I think most of the outrage came over Graeter's twitter post informing UC fans that they will only sell Bodly Bearcat if UC wins the game. Putting a condition out there came across as d-baggery of the highest level. The tweet came across with the same condescension that Stan Gable gave the Nerds when he informed they could only join the Greek Council after they won the campus-wide Olympic games*
*For you young people this a reference to the 80s movie Revenge of the Nerds.
(09-06-2019 08:57 AM)Def Berkkat Wrote: Out of all the things I've said on here before...
I got my first ever negative rep for saying UDF was better than Graeters.
How dare you, sir. How dare you.
Just kidding. But I never could understand paying $5 for 2 scoops when you can get a whole quart for $4 at Krogers. Only time I ever go out for ice cream is my anniversary, and that's just a tradition because we got our wedding cake from Cold Stone.
I thought the.... Hey bearcats if you want boldly bearcat you have to beat Ohio State( a team that is expected to go undefeated every year) is a slap in the face and really poor taste for a company founded in Cincinnati...
BUT. I have also been saying for years that Graeters is overrated. So ive never really had an allegiance to them. Ive always thought UDF is better. Ive never gotten the hype for black raspberry chip, but im also not a fan of chocolate chips
(09-06-2019 09:42 AM)coachpipe Wrote: I thought the.... Hey bearcats if you want boldly bearcat you have to beat Ohio State( a team that is expected to go undefeated every year) is a slap in the face and really poor taste for a company founded in Cincinnati...
BUT. I have also been saying for years that Graeters is overrated. So ive never really had an allegiance to them. Ive always thought UDF is better. Ive never gotten the hype for black raspberry chip, but im also not a fan of chocolate chips
Eh. they Hype is real. I've never enjoyed ice cream more than Black Raspberry Chip from Graeters. I try others, and it's all meh. Plenty of delicious ice cream out there, but Graeters Black Raspberry Chip is still my favorite by far. To each their own though.