New Executive Flash: Restrictions on Recipes for Personal Websites

[The_Kitchen_Guy]

A couple of things for you to keep in mind.

One) Relatively speaking, your Pampered Chef website is very economical. In fact, it's downright cheap. Check with your local ISP and find out what they would charge you per month to host a site. Suddenly, 7 bucks a month will look really attractive.

Two) 7 bucks a month starts to look even better when you find out what a good web designer would charge you for a web site - not just for setup but for maintenance, too. Pampered Chef makes setup and maintenance essentially idiot-proof.

Sidebar - owning a copy of GoLive or Front Page does not make someone a web designer any more than owning a stethoscope makes one a doctor.

Three) Giving up your Pampered Chef website over this issue would be a grave tactical error and a worse strategic decision.

As irritating as the recipe faux pas is, it is merely a speed bump in the highway of your Pampered Chef life.

 

[Chef Kearns]

Here, here Kitchen Guy!

 

[monica_sweetconsultant]

i understand what you are saying, but to your comment about not being a web designer, i may not be, but my husband is but anyways. i know what you mean. its just irritating to be told what to do over every little thing. i just dont get what the big problem is over a simple recipe!!! the way i see it i already paid for 6 months im going to keep it for 6 months!! to cheap not to! i didnt want the thing to begin with. my husband is the one who wanted me to have it!! but i will be good and stop griping about it!! lol

 

[The_Kitchen_Guy]

Oh...Kitchen Guy...what would we do with out you? You keep us light hearted, thank you!! And I want this recipe!

Alright, alright, alright...Thank You All! Instead of answering all the messages I'm getting, here's the open reply to everyone who wrote to me!

It's an old joke - I'm showing my age, I guess. "Kickapoo Joy Juice" was a concoction brewed up in the fertile mind of Al Capp when he drew his comic strip, Li'l Abner. The most potent moonshine was brewed in Dogpatch, U.S.A. at the Skonk Werks*, by characters named Lonesome Polecat and Hairless Joe.

Follow this link to read about Li'l Abner, Dogpatch and http://www.lil-abner.com/kickapoo.html.

There is a rumor that someone is marketing a product (licensed) under this name, but I haven't been able to find it.

Li'l Abner, by the way, was an extremely popular comic strip in its day with biting social commentary. It spawned two movies and vast merchandising. A Broadway musical of the strip debuted in 1956 and ran for several years. (It was made into a movie in 1959.) The play is still performed by high schools and theatre groups.

I would imagine, that in today's world of politcal correctness gone mad, the strip would have far more detractors than fans. The strip was full of stereotypical characters that burst with naive goodness and purity, like Abner Yokum, Mammy and Pappy Yokum and the long-suffering Daisy Mae Scraggs. Lots of colorful characters with names like Senator Jack S. Phogbound, Earthquake McGoon, Fearless Fosdick, General Bullmoose and everyone's favorite jinx, Joe Btfsplk, peppered the strip along with words that have found their way into the American lexicon like skunk works* and the lovable schmoo. Every high school in America had a Sadie Hawkins Day race, also a Capp invention, the day when Dogpatch women were allowed to chase bachelors and marry the one they caught. (Joe Btfsplk walked around with his own little black cloud that was always raining on him.)

The bottom line is, I'm sorry, you can't make Kickpoo Joy Juice in a Quick-Stir® pitcher. (It would probably melt, anyway.)

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* - The term "Skonk Works" was later adopted by Lockheed Aircraft and chaged to "Skunk Works" when Al Capp objected to the use of his copyrighted term. To this day, "skunk works" is a generic term that refers to a secret group within a company that develops products quickly, often on the edge of illigitimacy, unhampered by corporate hierarchy and protocals. At Lockheed, where they consider the term a trademark, the Skunk Works developed many secret military aircraft, including the U2 and the SR-71 Blackbird spy planes.

 

[Pampered Laura]

omg. That was awesome. Cheers to KitchenGuy! LOL!!!

 

[The_Kitchen_Guy]

Did you get the message today?An e-mail from TPC today says they are revisiting this issue. No changes are required in our websites at this time.

I think that answers the question of whether or not HO monitors this site.

 

[fruit76loop]

Victory for now...Wow, I am so excited to know that the Home Office has realized the pain this was causing! Maybe they will add more recipes that we can cut and paste! If we had all of the recipes from the cookbooks, I certainly would not have complained! But of course all we had were the 2 Season's Best Fall and Spring and the 2 Una Muestra's Fall and Spring!

Keeping my fingers crossed!

 

[The_Kitchen_Guy]

I don't think I would start planning on cookbook recipes being added to the website for C&P. If all the cookbook recipes were on the website, what reason would we have to sell cookbooks, let alone, what reason would a customer have for buying them?

Perhaps some old standbyes from out-of-print cookbooks?

 

[fruit76loop]

I was thinking....of on Consultant's Corner!! They could have all of the recipes available to us, not our customers! This way we would have access to them and still sale our cookbooks. I personally think I sale so many cookbooks because of the gorgeous pictures! These pictures always make me hungry!!

 

[The_Kitchen_Guy]

of on Consultant's Corner!! They could have all of the recipes available to us, not our customers! This way we would have access to them and still sale our cookbooks. I personally think I sale so many cookbooks because of the gorgeous pictures! These pictures always make me hungry!!

I think you're on to something.

Over the years, there has been a feature base for recipes - braids, rings, twists - that could be filled with everything from brunch fruits to main course fillings. Personally, I was never much of a fan of the twist (too much bread for my taste) or the ring (too much effort for a show) but I still use the braid for shows and in my own home.

Maybe TPC test kitchens could come up with another base recipe like a twist, and give us various fillings to use with them. We could post the base and then rotate fillings from time to time.