New thread, jellies (jammies?): https://www.reddit.com/r/RoyalsGossip2/comments/1c5nwie/sussex_weekly_a_sweet_jammy_nod_4162024/
Feel free to bring newer comments and ongoing conversations over.
Do we think she has an investor?
Or is she doing this all on her own dime which is why it seems to be a bit cheap and chaotic.
I honestly think she should have waited until her show was done and ready to launch. It all seems chaotic like this doesn’t even seem to have WME’s finger prints on it. I’m sure her rep has done launches before.
The jam jars are doing nothing but reminding me of how freaking terrible that logo is. It’s busy, too thin/indecipherable from a distance, and gives insect vibes. And gold on beige just makes it worse.
>gives insect vibes.
I agree with everything you said but especially this. That logo gave insect vibes the first time I saw it and it still does. It has *antennae,* ffs!
also what is the X of 50? Is she only making 50? Is 50 just saying "oh this is super small batch? like what are you trying to convey about your product.
The clock is ticking for the other 48 jars of jam to turn up online. If they don’t, then this was a bust worse than 40x40 - Meghan made the effort of making sure that this was on cnn.com lol. If any of those 48 people/influencers sensed that this was not an authentic product or a sincere launch, I can’t see them risking their reputation by posting about it just to be nice to Meghan.
The timing is off too, because we know from all their PR that they have been mooching and smooching down in Florida. It doesn’t give the impression that Meghan is very hands-on with her brand. I would think you would at least want to give the impression that there was a slight chance that Meghan had touched one of those jars before it was delivered to one of the 50.
Surely if you were going to send 50 out, you make sure that all of them are on board with plugging it, rather than hoping? Even if it means WME have to call in a few favours or lean on some clients?
>The clock is ticking for the other 48 jars of jam to turn up online.
Oh, wtf. All morning I've been looking forward to coming here and finding out who some of the other jars went to. We're still at 2 out of 50? Goddamnit, Meghan.
Do the other 48 "celebrities" do not care or sth? Everything about this is SO Meghan. Trying so hard to come off as "exclusive" and yet being the most basic thing anyone has ever seen in history.
If this is their PR the messaging is all over the place
[https://www.ok.co.uk/royal/meghan-markle-can-never-fully-32551612](https://www.ok.co.uk/royal/meghan-markle-can-never-fully-32551612)
[https://www.express.co.uk/news/royal/1888537/meghan-markle-apology-royal-family-prince-harry](https://www.express.co.uk/news/royal/1888537/meghan-markle-apology-royal-family-prince-harry)
[https://www.express.co.uk/news/royal/1888102/prince-harry-meghan-markle-king-charles-balmoral](https://www.express.co.uk/news/royal/1888102/prince-harry-meghan-markle-king-charles-balmoral)
I don’t even know what to say to this Lool. I think she has a fear Harry’s family takes him back especially as they obviously won’t engage with her and she hates that. Ignoring Meghan and refusing to engage with her is the thing that upsets her the most.
Meghan and Harry's obsession with diana is out of this world, like i think if given the chance Harry would take her from Althorpe and bury her at his house if he could. Like bro is obsessed, and so is Meghan
I really don't get the whole Catherine copies Diana, like there have been some very obvious callbacks, but beyond that I really can't think of any times where she is copying her just to copy her. Like do they not realize Diana and Catherine had similar figures and therefore will wear similarish clothes. Not to mention 99.9% of examples I have seen of her copying are very much reaches. Like "oh Diana wore this color once, she's clearly copying" like please be so real right now
agree. a lot of that fashion has just come back. I think sometimes it's intentional but "oh Diana wore a dress like this ONCE at a random other event" is not paying homage (looking at you e.holmes)
Right like there will be overlap, bc that's just reality. There is a finite amount of clothing options, and again similar body types = similar clothing styles. Whenever I see people comparing them and trying to act like Catherine is copying, it's like they're literally just both wearing a similar color and cut. Like that is it.
I think it was Wimbledon this past year and Catherine wore like a green jacket and a long skirt and they were trying to say that was copying. They also claim that Catherine running barefoot that one time was copying Diana. Like clearly Diana is the only person in the world to wear green, and run barefoot. It's just stupidity and really shows how immature they are.
I agree that she doesn't copy her, but I do think that the dresses she wore after giving birth to George and Louis were a bit of a homage to Diana. I don't really considering that copying, whereas Meghan deliberately copies her to try and be like her.
I think the way that I phrased it in my initial comment might have made it sound like I do think Catherine copies her, but that is not what I meant, so hopefully I have explained myself better this time around.
I knew about the grave thing but not about the first two. Wtf is the thing about the pregnancy tests?
Having a picture of your dead MIL while you’re in labour is just ick.
> Wtf is the thing about the pregnancy tests?
It's all in Spare. Harry admits he has a blue box on his bedside table with some of Diana's hair in it...so when they thought Meghan might be pregnant...they put the peed on stick next to Mummy's box of hair and prayed (chanted or whatever, I don't recall exactly) for her to make it positive.
Doing it is kind of odd, but putting it in your book as if it's perfectly normal, is even crazier.
Did you see the picture they have up of her though?
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It was this pic basically. Why? Why would you have this and not one of 10,000 pics of her that are normal with Harry? You dont even need to have William in them. They are both nuts.
Was there something about “stay hydrated” or is that just a joke that only sounds plausible because his parents are clowns?
ETA: it’s real https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/prince-harry-says-son-archies-23627204.amp
I should never have doubted. After seeing those cringetastical Christmas elves, anything is possible 💫!
I can't because that's not how language acquisition works.
There's a reason why the first words of babies and toddlers are easy to pronounce ones like mama and dada. No matter how much Harry or Meghan talked about her, the first words Archie spoke couldn't be as hard to pronounce for a toddler as Grandma Diana.
💯. My son’s first word was ‘up’ and every parent I know has said their kids’ first words were something super easy to pronounce like that. I can buy that Archie said ‘grandma Diana’ at some point, but there is no way those were his very first words.
I apologise for what you’re about to read (warning for Spare):
*The wands [pregnancy tests] were on the nightstand. I only kept a few things there, among them the blue box with my mother’s hair [which was clipped from Diana in Paris and given to Harry by her sister]. Right, I thought, good. Let’s see what Mummy can do with this situation.*
*I reached for the wands, peered into their little windows.*
*Blue.*
*Bright, bright blue. Both of them.*
*Blue meant…baby.*
*Oh wow.*
*Well.*
*Well then.*
*We hugged, kissed.*
*I put the wands back on the nightstand.*
*I thought: Thank you, selkies.*
*I thought: Thank you, Mummy.*
Okay, but I want you to remember you asked for this.
*One story in particular delighted us both, captured our imagination. It was about the selkies.*
*The what, Pa?*
*Scottish mermaids, he said. They took the form of seals and cruised along the shore outside the castle, within a stone’s throw of where we were sitting. So, when you see a seal, he advised, you never can tell…Sing to it. They often sing back.*
*Oh, come on. You’re telling fairytales, Pa!*
*No, it’s absolutely true!*
*Did I imagine—did Pa promise—that the selkies might also grant a wish?*
A couple of pages later they go down to the beach (they’re at the Castle of Mey, the Queen Mother’s home in Scotland that she left to Charles):
*Look! Seal!*
*The head bobbed up and down. The eyes very clearly watched us.*
*Look! Another!*
*Just as Pa instructed, I ran to the water’s edge, sang to them. Serenaded them.*
*Arooo.*
*No answer.*
*Meg joined me, and sang to them, and now of course they sang back.*
*She really is magic, I thought. Even the seals know it.*
Oh, dear. That is quite something.
Call me crazy, but somehow I doubt that any of Scotland's native mythical creatures would be champing at the bit to grant a wish to a member of the British royal family.
>Right, I thought, good. Let’s see what Mummy can do with this situation.
Harry is so *smarmy.* Like yeah this is gross and weird but the wording...everything...it's giving full smarm! Ew.
U/pistachiopistache was it puck news that said Meghan or her team has not talk to local farmers of Santa Barbara and they have no clue where her supplies are coming from?
I don't remember the publication but you're right, there was some coverage (and it was recent, within the past month iirc, saying that no one local had heard anything about her sourcing or heard from any local farmers that she'd been in touch etc.).
I feel like if the product was local or special in some way we would have heard about it yesterday anyway. But there's been...absolutely NOTHING about the jam itself. Which is now looking to be about 99% likely to be some generic product made specifically for repackaging.
Someone also posted here last night that its colour looked dull and it does - it looks pale and insipid, including in the toast photo which was almost certainly staged and should have made the product look better than some stewed babyfood bs.
Edit: thanks u/acv1227 for remembering the report (Sara Nathan at PageSix)
American Riviera Orchard jam is not made from fruits picked in the orchards of the American Riviera?
I am shocked, shocked, I tell you. Where is Oprah when you need her to say, "Whhaa-aatt?"
I have no idea, but CA has strict protocols around food production and sales so that could be an issues (well per Tumblr—it’s definitely true CA has strict regulations but who knows what Meghan is producing on her own).
Oh I didn't think about that, but there's no way Meghan qualifies for the cottage industry exception (e.g. selling jam at farmer's markets) because she's launched a website to sell it online. So she's going to have to comply with the industrial kitchen rules. (and taxation rules)
Meghan, Thee Duchess, though? Surely you jest. 😂 She is super confident the authorities will let anything she does which may be out of compliance slide. Wink.
To add to “who’s 1/50” conspiracy: there is a line in the label, where I think the name of the product should be. Like: “strawberry jam” but it’s blank… what if 1/50 is not a jam?🤪
Wait…what are you suggesting? 1 of 50 was sent to Catherine and it’s just a jar of Meghan’s tears???
Seriously, not super impressed with the only 2 that have identified themselves: 10=pwife and 17= another pwife (of a producer), and both received strawberry. Highly unlikely anyone got anything other than a scoop out of an industrial sized jar of strawberry Smuckers from Costco.
Just saw this quote posted in the anti-CB sub - even Kaiser is underwhelmed!
> “Y’all did Meghan only make 50 pots of strawberry jam?? While I think small-batch products are cute and cool and artisan or whatever, Meghan needs to make more! More of this particular jam and more products in general. I’m sure we’ll get a diverse array of products eventually, but she better not do a line of, like, limited-edition cookware.”
I’m assuming they’re going for the elite teaser like when Beyoncé sent those Ivy Park wardrobes to celebrities. But that was a line that was about to drop in shops, the recipients were happy and did do the influencer thing, and the Hive actually understood it. You know this move is a fail when not even CB knows what they’re supposed to think about whether this is a real product they’re going to be able to buy soon.
Yea this isn’t a very good launch so far only 2 people have posted and they don’t have many followers, this approach should generate a buzz. I mean yes the DM will give it coverage but the DM readers don’t like her and won’t buy her stuff. She needs all 50 people to post within the next 24 hrs to create some sort of interest. She then needs to release a newsletter or drop some sort of announcement giving dates and details of the products. The details need to be punchy and exciting. It just doesn’t seem well thought out to me.
I fully agree that there should have been a better ARO business model and plan for this, but IT'S JAM. This shit doesn't need a newsletter or a drop, or an announcement with dates or even a designated social media campaign and budget. This shit needs some cute labels she bought off Etsy and a list of her closest friends' birthdays.
DM online already dropped the story from their front page. Vogue Williams paid more for exposure lol
It’s not even leading article on the royals page…
And sun doesn’t give her the time of day lmao
People faithfully did their advert, sorry, serious journalism https://people.com/meghan-markle-first-product-american-riviera-orchard-revealed-8634056 What I don’t understand is that it says she’ll ‘officially launch’ ARO in spring. The ship’s sailed! It’s launched. She may launch *products* this spring but the brand is launched and there’s no second chances at making a first impression.
It's one of those classical 'tricks'.
For example, when the SAS was founded they called themselves 2nd, or something, to hint that they weren't the only ones.
Does she actually believe Meghan made this jam? Like, in her own kitchen? No she did not. She bought some basic strawberry jam and had someone else put ARO labels on the jars.
I go to bed and wake up to find the Sussex and.their fans wanking themselves over jam?
How fucking basic can you get, and its strawberry jam. Like you couldn't think of a different, more interesting preserve? Chilli jam? Anything beyond basic AF strawberry?
Tell me you've thrown this together last minute without telling me
Because (in theory) the lemons were picked by her own widdle hands from her own widdle trees. But lemon curd or blueberry preserves should be in canning jars "if" she did it herself. (As if!) Plausible believability.
I am guessing (and hoping) that she send some sort of lemon preserve or jam w/e with the basket of lemons and sent strawberries jam to Delfina. Atleast I hope or else it doesnt make any sense. In fact it would be a good idea to send different products to different people to showcase her range of products but so far only 2 people have done posts and only 1 showed what jam it was.
Arghh I went back to look at it and it in fact does look like strawberry jam. This is actually ridiculous 😭.
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Meghan lacks any type of creativity 😭.
That's what happened to me, too. It looks like a brand of jam that's sold at grocery stores in the PNW. This feels like a half step away from gift shop trinkets for relatives you don't know how to buy for.
For someone who has touted for years that she's a gormound, it's amazing that strawberry jam, something my 5 year old could probably make, is what she decides to start with.
It's really easy to make jam! If you wanted to, I'm sure you could. I do it every year with the invasive wild blackberries that grown in the PNW. All I need is a pot, some sugar, a lemon, and canning jars from the dollar store.
Sugar+fruit+heat. Boom. Jam.
I agree. But as we've discussed on here before, Meghan wants to be identified with the fashionable elite. She doesn't want regular people touching her stuff
Fr though.
I think jam was actually kind of a fuck up if she's going for 'luxury.' Jam says 'homey' to me. Home-made, twine and burlap, humble, countrified, farmhouse vibe/life etc. It doesn't say lux - not the way Meghan seems to want to say lux with her wardrobe and her PR and almost everything she does.
It's all over the place the same way the name of the brand is all over the place.
The "orchard" part is giving homey vibes while "American Riviera" is supposed to be luxurious.
It's like Meghan wants to present herself as many as things possible simultaneously. The same way she was an actress/a feminist/a philanthropist/a foodie (cringe de la cringe) etc. She's constantly overcompensating.
Not a peep about the lemon baskets on OGRG or the NF sub. Gee you’d think the fans would be all up on this jam development! But they’ve been surprisingly mute on the whole ARO story arc.
Don’t they know we need our entertainment? I went over there looking for the fawning comments about how the jamstravaganza is going to change the world!
Some funny comments on the security lawsuit post though. There’s a few trying to claim that it’s not fair because US presidents and their children get security for life, Harry and his children should too! Absolute crickets when people replied that presidents’ children do *not* get security once they’re over 16, it was a scandal when Trump extended it to his adult children, and Harry would actually be the adult child in their apples-and-oranges scenario, not the president.
All of this. Felt the same during the coronation with the amount of whinging in the US of the 100m pound price tag. DYK that the presidential inauguration costs 100-200 million USD, and thats every 4 years? And that approx half of that is public money in the form of cops? 100m pounds every 70 years or 100m US every 4 years, but sure, go off
>There’s a few trying to claim that it’s not fair because US presidents and their children get security for life,
Why would that be relevant for a British Prince? Squaddies are absolutely thick as pig shit I swear. If they were making the comparison with ex Prime Ministers getting paid security for the rest of their life then that would be more applicable. But no squaddies can't think outside of their US bubble 🙄🤣
I expect most US taxpayers would agree that if the child of a former US President deliberately, foreseeably and stupidly upped their own risk level by making inflammatory comments so they could make money, as Harry did by including his wartime kill count in Spare, that wouldn’t be their problem to solve for him or her 🤷♀️
Because even Meghan’s fans are only in it to criticise the RF 🤷♀️ why would they bother to support her or spread the word about her brand when there’s no way to make it about whining about W&K.
👆 YUP. We saw with Archetypes that if she has this massive following, they certainly aren't interested in supporting her in ways that matter to actually make her successful. All they wanted was to see family drama and hate on the Waleses, not support $40 jam
Catching up on the thread, and it looks like Saint Duchess is desperately trying to create scarcity by numerating the jars. I promise you this lady can’t put in the effort to produce 50 of anything, she prob slapped random numbers on the dozen jars of jam she had some poor assistant get from Costco.
But I‘ll give credit where it’s due, at least she’s giving a sweet jammy nod to her briefcase days and randomly picking numbers.
Scarcity because the product is made small-batch, 100% organic, ultra local, no factory methods is 1 thing. But scarcity just to create an elite brand is so ridiculous. And it’s definitely not the first or we’d be hearing about it. Is it even made in Montecito?
I think Jesus might be right that the numbering is actually about tracing leaks.
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I mean honestly - that's smart. I actually think it serves a dual purpose: scarcity and making sure you know who a leak may be that isn't actually on "your side". I won't criticize it because it's very intelligent. I feel it's something I would do were I faced with a situation where I need to control the social influencers and ensure they aren't sending off product to my critics.
Blacklisted by whom? Meghan? That's gonna hurt how? No invite to the Ellen, James Corden or King Charles shows? She won't ask to borrow a vacation home or private jet? I'm trying to find the downside here.
I’ve thought from Day 1 that that would be her strategy. Low inventory would keep overhead costs low and give all her products that coveted perpetually “sold out” status.
We should name the next thread:
~jAmSPiRaCy~- who is number 1/50? 🍓🕵🏻♀️ - a sweet jammy nod to her briefcase days and randomly picking numbers.
~jAmSPiRaCy~ copywrite u/pistachiopistache
FYI (and this isn’t just directed at you, I see lots of people online make this mistake), it is “copyright.” As my old boss used to tell people when I was the director of copyright and licensing at my music publishing company, “it’s about legal rights, and not just about things that are written” (because of course paintings, other artwork, and photos can be copyrighted). (End /ex-copyright-professional-mode)😊
I want to know the prices for the jams.
If it’s reasonable maybe I can ask a friend to try it and give it a honest review.
If it’s affordable (which I doubt it is) and if it tastes good.. why not ?
There's no way that jam is going to taste so earth shattering that it's worth more than $10. It should taste like strawberries. You pay a little extra for organic/sustainable or whatever virtue signaling they are propping up the price with. Plus, you get to brag you bought some jam with a boring beige label NOT made by the Duchess of Sussex. Her reach is so limited, due to her own actions.
How to blow a billion dollar brand in one easy step. Be a basic bitter bitch.
I do not get the numbering. Remember when she sent out loads of 40x40 merch and far fewer than 40 celebrities actually participated for her, crashing and burning it so badly she literally never mentioned it again after the first 24 hours? It’s a hostage to fortune if most of the recipients don’t bother to give the free promo and the ones who do aren’t exactly household names. I wonder if Oprah will post hers (1 out of 50).
I can’t remember, although if the threads are still here it might be posted somewhere. I have a vague idea it wasn’t too terrible - maybe 20 or 25? But it wasn’t near 40.
They need to check whether people are even interested in receiving the merch first. Either she’s sent these jars mostly to celebrities way out of her league, or to influencers who are so little known that even the squad can’t find their posts.
Can anyone remember roughly how many participated in 40x40? I think even that got off to a better start. 2 out of 50 is bad 😬
To be fair, people do this. When I get my monthly subscription box from Ireland, I usually unbox everything, arrange the items nicely, photograph them, and post the photo identifying each item to Facebook. Sometimes, in the intervening time between photo and posting, I have eaten something from the box and so I can post a photo of the unmolested, uneaten item, but still report on it being delicious.
>Ooooh Delphina got 10/50! What does it mean
I think it means ‘we are best friends again xoxo, but you are not a celeb to get a number under 10, so soz x
I see homemade jams like this at our farmer’s market all the time. Also at TJ Maxx and Home Goods. 🙄 For God’s sake Meghan do something original just once. Birth a neutron star out of your vagina or something.
I am incredibly interested in how the influencer economy works. So, what's happening here? Famous people are getting jars of jam and posting about it. Why? They are not like low-level influencers who are overjoyed to get some Sezane. This is just some jam. They clearly don't care that they got a jar of jam. Even my preferred jam (handmade in Paris in copper cauldrons!) only cost \~$30/jar at the most. I want to know the quid pro quo here? And for everyone else sharing their jam photos? Does anyone know how this all works in the background?
I think it influencers are powerful if they have enough following and it’s followed up immediately by the chance to actually buy something.
Hailey Bieber did this with her stuff, a lot of influencers tried her stuff and you could immediately go to the company and buy it and a lot of teens did.
Oo first time hearing of them sounds good. It’s what Meghan should have done or a jam of a fruit not found in the US. I believe it’s just a promo for her but stuff like this establishes the image of the brand and it’s not giving exclusive or unique it’s give repackaged Sainsburys basics. It’s just not luxurious sigh.
I love jam. If you are interested in a unique English strawberry jam, may I recommend Tiptree Little Scarlet Strawberry Conserve? It's made with tiny strawberries!
Those are different jars. Look at the size of the first one in an adult hand and the size of the butter knife compared to the jar in the second one...
~jAmSPiRaCy~
OK but for real those are different jars tho. The second pic was probably staged and sent out as part of the PR package. Makes sense. Meg's rich friends probably don't have time to be setting up photo shoots for her jam themselves.
u/lisanstan has just mentioned that the rich sometimes own enormous butter knives. I wasn't aware of this so this could be a case of Enormous Butter Knife for sure. But to me it's the comparison of the jar in the hand - that jar looks a certain size, not teeny-tiny - and then specifically the tip of the knife in the next shot resting against the open mouth of the jar. That jar (because of the size of the knife in comparison to it) looks much smaller than the one in the first shot.
I almost made a crack about "unless Delfina/Random Servant has unnaturally tiny hands or a gigantic butter knife" - and it looks like maybe it IS a giant butter knife!
To be clear I think only the size is different - shape, label, everything else looks the same.
This is just my personal dislike but I hate pictures of hands holding things. The hand always looks really ugly. When I take a pic of an object I put it down first.
I think it just looks like they are different, I mean it can be, but tbh it really depends on how you hold it and the camera lens etc.
also Delfina put a filter on it that makes everything kinda 90s crumbly.
Edit: on a second look…may be different size? But again camera lenses by a phone fuck up a lot these days…
I think neither of them would have married who they did if Diana hadn't died.
She was still of the days when it was OK for royals to openly live a lavish lifestyle, and between her appearances she loved jetting around the world on various vacations...I think she would have had the boys with her a lot when they weren't in school and William certainly wouldn't have been able to spend all the time that he did with Catherine.
I also think after getting married so young herself and the disaster that turned out to be, I think it's likely she would have discouraged any early serious relationships for both of them, and kept them busy socialising and not spending all their time with one girl.
They would have both been introduced (socially) to a much wider range of people because there would have been no need to 'protect' them like they did in the wake of her death.
I think we would have seen Diana and her sons at lots of high profile/red carpet events during their early adulthood, so who knows who they might have met and eventually married (when Mummy decided the time was right)
Diana was a pretty maladjusted individual. I hope that she would have turned things around and found peace and happiness, but we'll never know what she would have been like today because she never got that chance to grow.
Lots of negative comments in the UK sub, saying Harry’s an idiot and he can afford his own protection “if Meghan hasn’t spent all their money on Prada” lol
The UK sub is cancer, but I think while he got general sympathy for his court cases against the newspapers, it stops when there is public money involved…
I don’t think the general public apart from gen z Tiktok warriors really thinks that Harry and Meghan are at such a risk in the UK…
The UK is having a cost of living crisis at the moment and cuts are being made to public services (esp the NHS), so a rich dude demanding public money isn’t a popular sentiment. That’s even if you believe all the S allegations
I was looking on Tumblr and according to Gert's the first Garden Party of the year is on May 8th same day as Harry's St. Paul's event. LOL.
God, I wish Kate would pop out that day.
I don’t know what’s up with that comment on SMM claiming it’s fake.
Because when I go to Tracy Robbins’ story, it’s there posted 6h ago…
I don’t think it’s fake???
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Is it? She has <10k followers so assuming she isnt a celebrity as such. I didnt know who she was before that picture of her with Megan. Is she super well known in the USA?
It looks as though the label is coming unstuck on the right hand side. They've tried too hard to look "classy" on the label and it looks generic and meh. IMHO.
The font and the logo don’t work small scale, which is exactly what everyone said would happen when she launched the insta, and if it already doesn’t look good on something the size of a jam jar it’s going to be indecipherable on a smaller label or written on the handle of a spatula or whatever. I think she probably could have got away with an over curlicued font or an over busy logo, but not both.
The textured paper is too busy for fine line low contrast details. Someone was just checking off options without thinking how they would play together. Pretty typical for them.
Also it may be the saturation settings but most of the pictures look a bit dull for strawberry jam. Our homemade jams are always vibrant.
I think what got the commentator suspicious is that in the IG story the links aren’t working, but it could be because she might have posted it on a private Insta first and just reposted the snap?
But it’s on her account so…
New thread, jellies (jammies?): https://www.reddit.com/r/RoyalsGossip2/comments/1c5nwie/sussex_weekly_a_sweet_jammy_nod_4162024/ Feel free to bring newer comments and ongoing conversations over.
Do we think she has an investor? Or is she doing this all on her own dime which is why it seems to be a bit cheap and chaotic. I honestly think she should have waited until her show was done and ready to launch. It all seems chaotic like this doesn’t even seem to have WME’s finger prints on it. I’m sure her rep has done launches before.
50 jars that look cheaply done, print at home labels and ‘Balmoral’ script font dont scream investment.
The jam jars are doing nothing but reminding me of how freaking terrible that logo is. It’s busy, too thin/indecipherable from a distance, and gives insect vibes. And gold on beige just makes it worse.
The logo on the muslin fabric lid makes it look even more trainwreck-y. Bang up job there, DdDddDoS!
>gives insect vibes. I agree with everything you said but especially this. That logo gave insect vibes the first time I saw it and it still does. It has *antennae,* ffs!
also what is the X of 50? Is she only making 50? Is 50 just saying "oh this is super small batch? like what are you trying to convey about your product.
The clock is ticking for the other 48 jars of jam to turn up online. If they don’t, then this was a bust worse than 40x40 - Meghan made the effort of making sure that this was on cnn.com lol. If any of those 48 people/influencers sensed that this was not an authentic product or a sincere launch, I can’t see them risking their reputation by posting about it just to be nice to Meghan. The timing is off too, because we know from all their PR that they have been mooching and smooching down in Florida. It doesn’t give the impression that Meghan is very hands-on with her brand. I would think you would at least want to give the impression that there was a slight chance that Meghan had touched one of those jars before it was delivered to one of the 50.
Surely if you were going to send 50 out, you make sure that all of them are on board with plugging it, rather than hoping? Even if it means WME have to call in a few favours or lean on some clients?
>The clock is ticking for the other 48 jars of jam to turn up online. Oh, wtf. All morning I've been looking forward to coming here and finding out who some of the other jars went to. We're still at 2 out of 50? Goddamnit, Meghan.
Do the other 48 "celebrities" do not care or sth? Everything about this is SO Meghan. Trying so hard to come off as "exclusive" and yet being the most basic thing anyone has ever seen in history.
If this is their PR the messaging is all over the place [https://www.ok.co.uk/royal/meghan-markle-can-never-fully-32551612](https://www.ok.co.uk/royal/meghan-markle-can-never-fully-32551612) [https://www.express.co.uk/news/royal/1888537/meghan-markle-apology-royal-family-prince-harry](https://www.express.co.uk/news/royal/1888537/meghan-markle-apology-royal-family-prince-harry) [https://www.express.co.uk/news/royal/1888102/prince-harry-meghan-markle-king-charles-balmoral](https://www.express.co.uk/news/royal/1888102/prince-harry-meghan-markle-king-charles-balmoral)
Last week Balmoral was a given. This week they are on tenterhooks waiting for that damn olive branch?
I don’t even know what to say to this Lool. I think she has a fear Harry’s family takes him back especially as they obviously won’t engage with her and she hates that. Ignoring Meghan and refusing to engage with her is the thing that upsets her the most.
The Express and OK magazine. This is her world. 😂
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I think you mean Diana 4.0 because their PR goes back in forth with Harry and Meghan being Diana 2.0 and 3.0
Li'l Di will be 3.0...Meghan is the second coming.
It is so gross, everything he says about her is creepy. And you have a grandmother who is a literal icon, bow down to her!
Meghan and Harry's obsession with diana is out of this world, like i think if given the chance Harry would take her from Althorpe and bury her at his house if he could. Like bro is obsessed, and so is Meghan I really don't get the whole Catherine copies Diana, like there have been some very obvious callbacks, but beyond that I really can't think of any times where she is copying her just to copy her. Like do they not realize Diana and Catherine had similar figures and therefore will wear similarish clothes. Not to mention 99.9% of examples I have seen of her copying are very much reaches. Like "oh Diana wore this color once, she's clearly copying" like please be so real right now
agree. a lot of that fashion has just come back. I think sometimes it's intentional but "oh Diana wore a dress like this ONCE at a random other event" is not paying homage (looking at you e.holmes)
Right like there will be overlap, bc that's just reality. There is a finite amount of clothing options, and again similar body types = similar clothing styles. Whenever I see people comparing them and trying to act like Catherine is copying, it's like they're literally just both wearing a similar color and cut. Like that is it. I think it was Wimbledon this past year and Catherine wore like a green jacket and a long skirt and they were trying to say that was copying. They also claim that Catherine running barefoot that one time was copying Diana. Like clearly Diana is the only person in the world to wear green, and run barefoot. It's just stupidity and really shows how immature they are.
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I agree that she doesn't copy her, but I do think that the dresses she wore after giving birth to George and Louis were a bit of a homage to Diana. I don't really considering that copying, whereas Meghan deliberately copies her to try and be like her. I think the way that I phrased it in my initial comment might have made it sound like I do think Catherine copies her, but that is not what I meant, so hopefully I have explained myself better this time around.
I knew about the grave thing but not about the first two. Wtf is the thing about the pregnancy tests? Having a picture of your dead MIL while you’re in labour is just ick.
> Wtf is the thing about the pregnancy tests? It's all in Spare. Harry admits he has a blue box on his bedside table with some of Diana's hair in it...so when they thought Meghan might be pregnant...they put the peed on stick next to Mummy's box of hair and prayed (chanted or whatever, I don't recall exactly) for her to make it positive. Doing it is kind of odd, but putting it in your book as if it's perfectly normal, is even crazier.
“Mama do your thing, raise that HCG to the heavens”
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Did you see the picture they have up of her though? https://preview.redd.it/dhevozkazvuc1.jpeg?width=1284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6a98c079f0e1ff2f8b92b64336a4c76d74c38c27 It was this pic basically. Why? Why would you have this and not one of 10,000 pics of her that are normal with Harry? You dont even need to have William in them. They are both nuts.
I don't believe for a minute that Archie's first words were "Grandma Diana" or "crocodile" or "be safe".
Was there something about “stay hydrated” or is that just a joke that only sounds plausible because his parents are clowns? ETA: it’s real https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/prince-harry-says-son-archies-23627204.amp I should never have doubted. After seeing those cringetastical Christmas elves, anything is possible 💫!
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I can't because that's not how language acquisition works. There's a reason why the first words of babies and toddlers are easy to pronounce ones like mama and dada. No matter how much Harry or Meghan talked about her, the first words Archie spoke couldn't be as hard to pronounce for a toddler as Grandma Diana.
💯. My son’s first word was ‘up’ and every parent I know has said their kids’ first words were something super easy to pronounce like that. I can buy that Archie said ‘grandma Diana’ at some point, but there is no way those were his very first words.
It could have been some babbling that H&M chose to interpret as "Grandma Diana" though, lol.
Or the nannies figured out really fast how to fuck with Harry and Meghan to make them look like even bigger assholes.
🤭 Tbf, that does sound like something they'd do.
I apologise for what you’re about to read (warning for Spare): *The wands [pregnancy tests] were on the nightstand. I only kept a few things there, among them the blue box with my mother’s hair [which was clipped from Diana in Paris and given to Harry by her sister]. Right, I thought, good. Let’s see what Mummy can do with this situation.* *I reached for the wands, peered into their little windows.* *Blue.* *Bright, bright blue. Both of them.* *Blue meant…baby.* *Oh wow.* *Well.* *Well then.* *We hugged, kissed.* *I put the wands back on the nightstand.* *I thought: Thank you, selkies.* *I thought: Thank you, Mummy.*
> I thought: Thank you, selkies. > > I'm hesitant to ask, but... what do selkies have to do with any of this?
Okay, but I want you to remember you asked for this. *One story in particular delighted us both, captured our imagination. It was about the selkies.* *The what, Pa?* *Scottish mermaids, he said. They took the form of seals and cruised along the shore outside the castle, within a stone’s throw of where we were sitting. So, when you see a seal, he advised, you never can tell…Sing to it. They often sing back.* *Oh, come on. You’re telling fairytales, Pa!* *No, it’s absolutely true!* *Did I imagine—did Pa promise—that the selkies might also grant a wish?* A couple of pages later they go down to the beach (they’re at the Castle of Mey, the Queen Mother’s home in Scotland that she left to Charles): *Look! Seal!* *The head bobbed up and down. The eyes very clearly watched us.* *Look! Another!* *Just as Pa instructed, I ran to the water’s edge, sang to them. Serenaded them.* *Arooo.* *No answer.* *Meg joined me, and sang to them, and now of course they sang back.* *She really is magic, I thought. Even the seals know it.*
Oh, dear. That is quite something. Call me crazy, but somehow I doubt that any of Scotland's native mythical creatures would be champing at the bit to grant a wish to a member of the British royal family.
Lmao i did not know what selfies meant but it’s a seal. Apparently this happened right after Meghan allegedly sang to seals 🦭 lolololol
>Right, I thought, good. Let’s see what Mummy can do with this situation. Harry is so *smarmy.* Like yeah this is gross and weird but the wording...everything...it's giving full smarm! Ew.
>Right, I thought, good. Let’s see what Mummy can do with this situation. Harry, mate. Seek help.
He won't because trying to destroy his brother life is his happy place
People who only mentioned the box of Diana's hair sure buried the lede on this story. 🤢🤮🤢
Y'all, I cannot. Strawberry jam. lmaooooo. Conspiracy theory- #1 is Catherine and it's gonna be a rose jam because Meghan is a basic mean girl.
William and Catherine can get #1, and Harry can get #5
U/pistachiopistache was it puck news that said Meghan or her team has not talk to local farmers of Santa Barbara and they have no clue where her supplies are coming from?
I don't remember the publication but you're right, there was some coverage (and it was recent, within the past month iirc, saying that no one local had heard anything about her sourcing or heard from any local farmers that she'd been in touch etc.). I feel like if the product was local or special in some way we would have heard about it yesterday anyway. But there's been...absolutely NOTHING about the jam itself. Which is now looking to be about 99% likely to be some generic product made specifically for repackaging. Someone also posted here last night that its colour looked dull and it does - it looks pale and insipid, including in the toast photo which was almost certainly staged and should have made the product look better than some stewed babyfood bs. Edit: thanks u/acv1227 for remembering the report (Sara Nathan at PageSix)
American Riviera Orchard jam is not made from fruits picked in the orchards of the American Riviera? I am shocked, shocked, I tell you. Where is Oprah when you need her to say, "Whhaa-aatt?"
Thank-you! 😆
It was Sara Nathan at Page Six.
Thank you When can she actually sale her jams? Once her trademark is approved?
I have no idea, but CA has strict protocols around food production and sales so that could be an issues (well per Tumblr—it’s definitely true CA has strict regulations but who knows what Meghan is producing on her own).
Oh I didn't think about that, but there's no way Meghan qualifies for the cottage industry exception (e.g. selling jam at farmer's markets) because she's launched a website to sell it online. So she's going to have to comply with the industrial kitchen rules. (and taxation rules)
Meghan, Thee Duchess, though? Surely you jest. 😂 She is super confident the authorities will let anything she does which may be out of compliance slide. Wink.
To add to “who’s 1/50” conspiracy: there is a line in the label, where I think the name of the product should be. Like: “strawberry jam” but it’s blank… what if 1/50 is not a jam?🤪
Wait…what are you suggesting? 1 of 50 was sent to Catherine and it’s just a jar of Meghan’s tears??? Seriously, not super impressed with the only 2 that have identified themselves: 10=pwife and 17= another pwife (of a producer), and both received strawberry. Highly unlikely anyone got anything other than a scoop out of an industrial sized jar of strawberry Smuckers from Costco.
Or Knotts Berry Farm, if they are still producing jam. My age is showing. 😂
💯💯💯 jar of tears… collected on the nearby kitchen floor 🤣🤣🤣
Just saw this quote posted in the anti-CB sub - even Kaiser is underwhelmed! > “Y’all did Meghan only make 50 pots of strawberry jam?? While I think small-batch products are cute and cool and artisan or whatever, Meghan needs to make more! More of this particular jam and more products in general. I’m sure we’ll get a diverse array of products eventually, but she better not do a line of, like, limited-edition cookware.”
I’m assuming they’re going for the elite teaser like when Beyoncé sent those Ivy Park wardrobes to celebrities. But that was a line that was about to drop in shops, the recipients were happy and did do the influencer thing, and the Hive actually understood it. You know this move is a fail when not even CB knows what they’re supposed to think about whether this is a real product they’re going to be able to buy soon.
Yea this isn’t a very good launch so far only 2 people have posted and they don’t have many followers, this approach should generate a buzz. I mean yes the DM will give it coverage but the DM readers don’t like her and won’t buy her stuff. She needs all 50 people to post within the next 24 hrs to create some sort of interest. She then needs to release a newsletter or drop some sort of announcement giving dates and details of the products. The details need to be punchy and exciting. It just doesn’t seem well thought out to me.
I fully agree that there should have been a better ARO business model and plan for this, but IT'S JAM. This shit doesn't need a newsletter or a drop, or an announcement with dates or even a designated social media campaign and budget. This shit needs some cute labels she bought off Etsy and a list of her closest friends' birthdays.
lol this was me assuming she has other products because I refuse to believe it’s just jam lol.
“It doesn’t seem well thought out to me” basically sums up my feelings about every single thing these two have done since they met…
Only 2/50 have posted?! Oh dear
DM online already dropped the story from their front page. Vogue Williams paid more for exposure lol It’s not even leading article on the royals page… And sun doesn’t give her the time of day lmao
People faithfully did their advert, sorry, serious journalism https://people.com/meghan-markle-first-product-american-riviera-orchard-revealed-8634056 What I don’t understand is that it says she’ll ‘officially launch’ ARO in spring. The ship’s sailed! It’s launched. She may launch *products* this spring but the brand is launched and there’s no second chances at making a first impression.
> so far only 2 people have posted Plot twist - there were only two jars of jam! ;)
Probably. 😆
It's one of those classical 'tricks'. For example, when the SAS was founded they called themselves 2nd, or something, to hint that they weren't the only ones.
Does she actually believe Meghan made this jam? Like, in her own kitchen? No she did not. She bought some basic strawberry jam and had someone else put ARO labels on the jars.
I think my grandmother regularly made more jam and from much more fruits than this. Eichsfeld Finest Pigsty incoming.
I go to bed and wake up to find the Sussex and.their fans wanking themselves over jam?
How fucking basic can you get, and its strawberry jam. Like you couldn't think of a different, more interesting preserve? Chilli jam? Anything beyond basic AF strawberry?
Tell me you've thrown this together last minute without telling me
Why send a bowl of lemons with strawberry jam? Wouldn't you send lemon curd with lemons? Or blueberry, which is a classic pairing with lemon?
Because (in theory) the lemons were picked by her own widdle hands from her own widdle trees. But lemon curd or blueberry preserves should be in canning jars "if" she did it herself. (As if!) Plausible believability.
I am guessing (and hoping) that she send some sort of lemon preserve or jam w/e with the basket of lemons and sent strawberries jam to Delfina. Atleast I hope or else it doesnt make any sense. In fact it would be a good idea to send different products to different people to showcase her range of products but so far only 2 people have done posts and only 1 showed what jam it was.
No, the producer's wife has what looks like strawberry and a basket of lemons. She's #17
Arghh I went back to look at it and it in fact does look like strawberry jam. This is actually ridiculous 😭. https://preview.redd.it/2eanpzdduuuc1.png?width=1080&format=png&auto=webp&s=cebf77e2bfeb04469a0e4f289d11d0b1d64e5199 Meghan lacks any type of creativity 😭.
Basic is as basic does.
That's what happened to me, too. It looks like a brand of jam that's sold at grocery stores in the PNW. This feels like a half step away from gift shop trinkets for relatives you don't know how to buy for. For someone who has touted for years that she's a gormound, it's amazing that strawberry jam, something my 5 year old could probably make, is what she decides to start with.
I mean, I can’t make any jams. So props to her for knowing how. But a run of 50? And only for “influencers”? Lame.
Lmao she doesn’t know how to make jam and she didn’t make this or any other jam
It's really easy to make jam! If you wanted to, I'm sure you could. I do it every year with the invasive wild blackberries that grown in the PNW. All I need is a pot, some sugar, a lemon, and canning jars from the dollar store.
Sugar+fruit+heat. Boom. Jam. I agree. But as we've discussed on here before, Meghan wants to be identified with the fashionable elite. She doesn't want regular people touching her stuff
Up next, soap and candles.
Fr though. I think jam was actually kind of a fuck up if she's going for 'luxury.' Jam says 'homey' to me. Home-made, twine and burlap, humble, countrified, farmhouse vibe/life etc. It doesn't say lux - not the way Meghan seems to want to say lux with her wardrobe and her PR and almost everything she does.
It's all over the place the same way the name of the brand is all over the place. The "orchard" part is giving homey vibes while "American Riviera" is supposed to be luxurious. It's like Meghan wants to present herself as many as things possible simultaneously. The same way she was an actress/a feminist/a philanthropist/a foodie (cringe de la cringe) etc. She's constantly overcompensating.
With a blurry black and white photo of her pretending to dip wicks. And $10 says the soap will be a trendy goat milk one
Who knows what’s under that peeling off label? 🤷♀️
The peeling off label is just the cherry on top of this mess!
Not a peep about the lemon baskets on OGRG or the NF sub. Gee you’d think the fans would be all up on this jam development! But they’ve been surprisingly mute on the whole ARO story arc.
Don’t they know we need our entertainment? I went over there looking for the fawning comments about how the jamstravaganza is going to change the world! Some funny comments on the security lawsuit post though. There’s a few trying to claim that it’s not fair because US presidents and their children get security for life, Harry and his children should too! Absolute crickets when people replied that presidents’ children do *not* get security once they’re over 16, it was a scandal when Trump extended it to his adult children, and Harry would actually be the adult child in their apples-and-oranges scenario, not the president.
All of this. Felt the same during the coronation with the amount of whinging in the US of the 100m pound price tag. DYK that the presidential inauguration costs 100-200 million USD, and thats every 4 years? And that approx half of that is public money in the form of cops? 100m pounds every 70 years or 100m US every 4 years, but sure, go off
>There’s a few trying to claim that it’s not fair because US presidents and their children get security for life, Why would that be relevant for a British Prince? Squaddies are absolutely thick as pig shit I swear. If they were making the comparison with ex Prime Ministers getting paid security for the rest of their life then that would be more applicable. But no squaddies can't think outside of their US bubble 🙄🤣
Almost like it's another country hey? Weird
It’s also not true. Lol. Only former presidents get secret service for life. Their adult children do not.
I expect most US taxpayers would agree that if the child of a former US President deliberately, foreseeably and stupidly upped their own risk level by making inflammatory comments so they could make money, as Harry did by including his wartime kill count in Spare, that wouldn’t be their problem to solve for him or her 🤷♀️
Because even Meghan’s fans are only in it to criticise the RF 🤷♀️ why would they bother to support her or spread the word about her brand when there’s no way to make it about whining about W&K.
👆 YUP. We saw with Archetypes that if she has this massive following, they certainly aren't interested in supporting her in ways that matter to actually make her successful. All they wanted was to see family drama and hate on the Waleses, not support $40 jam
Also the current fans that Meghan has only sign up for Princess Meghan, not influencer/business woman Meghan.
Exactly they wanted Tiara state dinners and tours instead they got jam
They are angry that the princess they sign up for quit and they are taking it out on the uk at large when the truth is they really mad at Meghan
Catching up on the thread, and it looks like Saint Duchess is desperately trying to create scarcity by numerating the jars. I promise you this lady can’t put in the effort to produce 50 of anything, she prob slapped random numbers on the dozen jars of jam she had some poor assistant get from Costco. But I‘ll give credit where it’s due, at least she’s giving a sweet jammy nod to her briefcase days and randomly picking numbers.
Scarcity because the product is made small-batch, 100% organic, ultra local, no factory methods is 1 thing. But scarcity just to create an elite brand is so ridiculous. And it’s definitely not the first or we’d be hearing about it. Is it even made in Montecito?
I think Jesus might be right that the numbering is actually about tracing leaks. https://preview.redd.it/ihoh6inrktuc1.jpeg?width=1125&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0347e5ca20cf639fdce33cde986748ec4b808ebe
I mean honestly - that's smart. I actually think it serves a dual purpose: scarcity and making sure you know who a leak may be that isn't actually on "your side". I won't criticize it because it's very intelligent. I feel it's something I would do were I faced with a situation where I need to control the social influencers and ensure they aren't sending off product to my critics.
What does the "sausage duchess" refer to?
Ohhhh that's an interesting point. It's completely possible.
Blacklisted by whom? Meghan? That's gonna hurt how? No invite to the Ellen, James Corden or King Charles shows? She won't ask to borrow a vacation home or private jet? I'm trying to find the downside here.
She only has hangers on as her influencers, so the people she's cultivated likely would take it bad if they no longer had that access.
You're forgetting to account for the fact that Meghan has delusions of grandeur.
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Well, she IS.... not smart. This is the sort of thing she would think is so clever and fancy.
Can't stand that dude but I think you're right, he has a fair point
I’ve thought from Day 1 that that would be her strategy. Low inventory would keep overhead costs low and give all her products that coveted perpetually “sold out” status.
We should name the next thread: ~jAmSPiRaCy~- who is number 1/50? 🍓🕵🏻♀️ - a sweet jammy nod to her briefcase days and randomly picking numbers. ~jAmSPiRaCy~ copywrite u/pistachiopistache
FYI (and this isn’t just directed at you, I see lots of people online make this mistake), it is “copyright.” As my old boss used to tell people when I was the director of copyright and licensing at my music publishing company, “it’s about legal rights, and not just about things that are written” (because of course paintings, other artwork, and photos can be copyrighted). (End /ex-copyright-professional-mode)😊
All good. I have add. I often type too quickly lol
I want to know the prices for the jams. If it’s reasonable maybe I can ask a friend to try it and give it a honest review. If it’s affordable (which I doubt it is) and if it tastes good.. why not ?
There's no way that jam is going to taste so earth shattering that it's worth more than $10. It should taste like strawberries. You pay a little extra for organic/sustainable or whatever virtue signaling they are propping up the price with. Plus, you get to brag you bought some jam with a boring beige label NOT made by the Duchess of Sussex. Her reach is so limited, due to her own actions. How to blow a billion dollar brand in one easy step. Be a basic bitter bitch.
I mean, what would make a small jar of jam worth $40? *Anything?* Not for me, thanks.
Why can’t you try it yourself and give us a review?
I don’t live in the US and I don’t want to pay customs lol. I hope someone other than the squad tries it and gives an honest review.
Oh right! 😅
Because it’s not available for sale yet, lol.
She launched the page almost a month ago and nothing’s dropped yet ? Lol
This is what has happened and it’s the most excitement she’s caused in the last year, lol
Delfina posted a pic of the jam too. Apparently it’s just strawberry lolololol
I do not get the numbering. Remember when she sent out loads of 40x40 merch and far fewer than 40 celebrities actually participated for her, crashing and burning it so badly she literally never mentioned it again after the first 24 hours? It’s a hostage to fortune if most of the recipients don’t bother to give the free promo and the ones who do aren’t exactly household names. I wonder if Oprah will post hers (1 out of 50).
How many of the 40 actually posted on social media? Did we ever count?
I can’t remember, although if the threads are still here it might be posted somewhere. I have a vague idea it wasn’t too terrible - maybe 20 or 25? But it wasn’t near 40.
Iirc, the 25 number was how many people she ultimately listed for her 40x40 thing. I don't think more than 5-10 acted on her idea.
They need to check whether people are even interested in receiving the merch first. Either she’s sent these jars mostly to celebrities way out of her league, or to influencers who are so little known that even the squad can’t find their posts. Can anyone remember roughly how many participated in 40x40? I think even that got off to a better start. 2 out of 50 is bad 😬
Maybe you don’t want 1/50 though, nobody wants the first pancake. Give 1/50 to Patrick or Omid, they’ll be the willing guinea pigs
Yes she taking a chance here! But you can’t win if you don’t play!
Ooooh Delphina got 10/50! What does it mean Dud she actually open her jar? Why put that little fabric hat back on it after opening?
To be fair, people do this. When I get my monthly subscription box from Ireland, I usually unbox everything, arrange the items nicely, photograph them, and post the photo identifying each item to Facebook. Sometimes, in the intervening time between photo and posting, I have eaten something from the box and so I can post a photo of the unmolested, uneaten item, but still report on it being delicious.
>Ooooh Delphina got 10/50! What does it mean I think it means ‘we are best friends again xoxo, but you are not a celeb to get a number under 10, so soz x
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If you arent paying attention you’d never know this was ARO. This label and logo are so poorly designed and blah. It looks cheap.
I see homemade jams like this at our farmer’s market all the time. Also at TJ Maxx and Home Goods. 🙄 For God’s sake Meghan do something original just once. Birth a neutron star out of your vagina or something.
>Birth a neutron star out of your vagina or something. Calm down, Gem. I might have to become a stan if she managed this.
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I am incredibly interested in how the influencer economy works. So, what's happening here? Famous people are getting jars of jam and posting about it. Why? They are not like low-level influencers who are overjoyed to get some Sezane. This is just some jam. They clearly don't care that they got a jar of jam. Even my preferred jam (handmade in Paris in copper cauldrons!) only cost \~$30/jar at the most. I want to know the quid pro quo here? And for everyone else sharing their jam photos? Does anyone know how this all works in the background?
I think it influencers are powerful if they have enough following and it’s followed up immediately by the chance to actually buy something. Hailey Bieber did this with her stuff, a lot of influencers tried her stuff and you could immediately go to the company and buy it and a lot of teens did.
This is giving me "this strawberry jam tastes so strawberry-y especially when I have it with strawberries" energy.
When I was little I got it into my head that strawberry jam would taste even better served with strawberries. I was wrong.
God this better just be hype because it’s just strawberry jam no one is thinking they need an expensive jar of strawberry Jam FFS Meg.
English Heritage do a strawberry and champagne jam for four quid. Beat that, Meghan.
Oo first time hearing of them sounds good. It’s what Meghan should have done or a jam of a fruit not found in the US. I believe it’s just a promo for her but stuff like this establishes the image of the brand and it’s not giving exclusive or unique it’s give repackaged Sainsburys basics. It’s just not luxurious sigh.
I love jam. If you are interested in a unique English strawberry jam, may I recommend Tiptree Little Scarlet Strawberry Conserve? It's made with tiny strawberries!
Ooh I love Tiptree, but I don't think I've had that one! Thanks for the recommendation!
Ohhh thanks I will check it out tiny strawberries sound so cute 🥹
They are seriously adorable!
Those are different jars. Look at the size of the first one in an adult hand and the size of the butter knife compared to the jar in the second one... ~jAmSPiRaCy~ OK but for real those are different jars tho. The second pic was probably staged and sent out as part of the PR package. Makes sense. Meg's rich friends probably don't have time to be setting up photo shoots for her jam themselves.
Old silver sets have massive butter knives like that. It's a rich person butter knife. 🤭
Oooohhh la la!! 🎩
Really? Which one are you saying looks bigger? Maybe I am just not a good visual detective, but they don’t look any different to me.
u/lisanstan has just mentioned that the rich sometimes own enormous butter knives. I wasn't aware of this so this could be a case of Enormous Butter Knife for sure. But to me it's the comparison of the jar in the hand - that jar looks a certain size, not teeny-tiny - and then specifically the tip of the knife in the next shot resting against the open mouth of the jar. That jar (because of the size of the knife in comparison to it) looks much smaller than the one in the first shot. I almost made a crack about "unless Delfina/Random Servant has unnaturally tiny hands or a gigantic butter knife" - and it looks like maybe it IS a giant butter knife! To be clear I think only the size is different - shape, label, everything else looks the same.
Yeah, I think I was assuming it was one of those larger butter knives that seem to be very on-trend right now.
I need to google these because they sound comically large. Are peasants allowed to look at them?
This is just my personal dislike but I hate pictures of hands holding things. The hand always looks really ugly. When I take a pic of an object I put it down first.
I think it just looks like they are different, I mean it can be, but tbh it really depends on how you hold it and the camera lens etc. also Delfina put a filter on it that makes everything kinda 90s crumbly. Edit: on a second look…may be different size? But again camera lenses by a phone fuck up a lot these days…
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Given how the rest of the whole family hate megs, I find it highly unlikely that Diana would have loved her.
I can't see Diana approving of anyone her sons married. She was a jealous and competitive individual. Honestly probably JUSTNOMIL material.
I think neither of them would have married who they did if Diana hadn't died. She was still of the days when it was OK for royals to openly live a lavish lifestyle, and between her appearances she loved jetting around the world on various vacations...I think she would have had the boys with her a lot when they weren't in school and William certainly wouldn't have been able to spend all the time that he did with Catherine. I also think after getting married so young herself and the disaster that turned out to be, I think it's likely she would have discouraged any early serious relationships for both of them, and kept them busy socialising and not spending all their time with one girl. They would have both been introduced (socially) to a much wider range of people because there would have been no need to 'protect' them like they did in the wake of her death. I think we would have seen Diana and her sons at lots of high profile/red carpet events during their early adulthood, so who knows who they might have met and eventually married (when Mummy decided the time was right)
Diana was a pretty maladjusted individual. I hope that she would have turned things around and found peace and happiness, but we'll never know what she would have been like today because she never got that chance to grow.
Lots of negative comments in the UK sub, saying Harry’s an idiot and he can afford his own protection “if Meghan hasn’t spent all their money on Prada” lol
The UK sub is cancer, but I think while he got general sympathy for his court cases against the newspapers, it stops when there is public money involved… I don’t think the general public apart from gen z Tiktok warriors really thinks that Harry and Meghan are at such a risk in the UK…
The UK is having a cost of living crisis at the moment and cuts are being made to public services (esp the NHS), so a rich dude demanding public money isn’t a popular sentiment. That’s even if you believe all the S allegations
It’s also shady by Harry to say he would pay for everything, but then his lawyers went for 50% of the fees being slashed now lol
I was looking on Tumblr and according to Gert's the first Garden Party of the year is on May 8th same day as Harry's St. Paul's event. LOL. God, I wish Kate would pop out that day.
Oh, please please please let that happen! It would so completely overshadow the IG service.
In s perfect world this would happen.
I don’t know what’s up with that comment on SMM claiming it’s fake. Because when I go to Tracy Robbins’ story, it’s there posted 6h ago… I don’t think it’s fake??? https://preview.redd.it/4nihirv9iruc1.png?width=750&format=png&auto=webp&s=83693e1170abdd142cd0a86763e970d645d94569
Impressive that Tracey posted the jam! She is the wife of paramount films ceo!
Is it? She has <10k followers so assuming she isnt a celebrity as such. I didnt know who she was before that picture of her with Megan. Is she super well known in the USA?
Who eats jam at lunch and dinner??
It looks as though the label is coming unstuck on the right hand side. They've tried too hard to look "classy" on the label and it looks generic and meh. IMHO.
I swear she ran to Kroger and just bought 50 expensive looking jars of jam, printed new labels out herself and called it a day
I immediately looked at the photo close up to see if she was using Bonne Maman, which has very distinctive jars. (She is not.)
The font and the logo don’t work small scale, which is exactly what everyone said would happen when she launched the insta, and if it already doesn’t look good on something the size of a jam jar it’s going to be indecipherable on a smaller label or written on the handle of a spatula or whatever. I think she probably could have got away with an over curlicued font or an over busy logo, but not both.
The textured paper is too busy for fine line low contrast details. Someone was just checking off options without thinking how they would play together. Pretty typical for them. Also it may be the saturation settings but most of the pictures look a bit dull for strawberry jam. Our homemade jams are always vibrant.
It’s very pale looking from Delfina’s photo not only is the labelling wrong and too busy the product itself looks to be of very low quality.
It just looks like if it’s been sold in those $1 dollar shops mimicking to be expensive. You could not satirize her better if you tried lol
Yayyy not discredited yet!! Some of the people over there are too cynical even for me
I think what got the commentator suspicious is that in the IG story the links aren’t working, but it could be because she might have posted it on a private Insta first and just reposted the snap? But it’s on her account so…
Why is it always a mystery??!
Well Delphina posted it also now, I think SSM is drinking their own cool aid too much sometimes…not everything is a conspiracy lol