alt.hn

5/13/2026 at 2:39:04 AM

Temu is advertising filet mignon on X

 https://twitter.com/shoptemu/status/2053092200632685016

by noleary

5/13/2026 at 3:15:13 AM

Apparently from a third party seller in New York....and tastes really bad. I was surprised steak could be safely mailed in such normal looking packaging!

https://www.delish.com/food/a70539084/temu-meat-review/

by supermdguy

5/13/2026 at 3:30:30 AM

what a well written article. Very human. Refreshing to read in the era of AI. Witty without trying too hard, genuinely funny, yet informative, and succinct.

I'm going to have to read more from Steven Morea!

by IG_Semmelweiss

5/13/2026 at 4:12:01 AM

Really? Maybe my brain is broken but I saw lots of forced analogies and LLM habits. Like where it does an em dash and a short list:

"I was getting steak ads everywhere—Instagram, news sites, even in places where ads should not be allowed to have that much audacity." ... "everything simply—salt and pepper, no fancy rubs, no sauce safety net." ... "with twine—very farmer’s market cosplay, very “trust me, I’m artisanal.”"

by sigmar

5/13/2026 at 6:54:54 AM

Before everyone piles on this comment with "whoosh" and "it was sarcasm" and such — have you noticed that reacting to ironic, sarcastic comments as if they were meant literally is what real LVL 80 trolls do oftener and oftener? On internet, you can never know who is pulling leg...

by 112233

5/13/2026 at 3:57:27 AM

Hahhahahahhaa

by misterflibble

5/13/2026 at 7:34:50 AM

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by aaron695

5/13/2026 at 3:58:08 AM

I remember in 2021 or so there was a startup doing 20 minute grocery delivery in SF, $50 off on your first order.

I got some really nice steaks for free and the delivery actually arrived via motorbike in 10 minutes. They must have had delivery drivers waiting with their own inventory or something. Anyways, the VC funding dried up and the company was gone a few months later.

by bobbiechen

5/13/2026 at 7:19:41 AM

Getir was doing 20 mins grocery delivery in most European capitals.

Interestingly, one way they get the delivery time down is they pack the items into the motorbike when you add them to the basket, not when you checkout.

If you remove an item from the basket and checkout, the motorbike will often arrive with the removed item (and take it back again).

by londons_explore

5/13/2026 at 4:01:51 AM

Kosmo.com?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kozmo.com

by nielsbot

5/13/2026 at 4:11:51 AM

that was ~20 years earlier but was so awesome when it was around. That and webvan were better (for customers, not for making money) than anything that existed until 2020.

by rcleveng

5/13/2026 at 3:32:23 AM

This is probably part of their "weird stuff" marketing scheme. They pick strange items to draw people in: either an item that is truly inscrutable (though often appearing related to sex) or an item that doesn't seem like it would/could be sold on their marketplace.

by jml7c5

5/13/2026 at 3:43:26 AM

Unrelated story but when guests would come over, my mom would go to the store and buy the fanciest meat (usually filet mignon) and put it in a stew/soup (she liked making soups). To this day the only way I've had filet mignon was in soup

by guywithahat

5/13/2026 at 3:25:57 AM

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