Edible Arrangements Is Getting Into the Wellness Industry
The Waves: Gender, Relationships, Feminism
Slate Podcasts
4.2 • 903 Ratings
🗓️ 28 April 2022
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode of The Waves, Slate senior writer, Christina Cauterucci and Slate science editor Shannon Palus, talk pineapples on sticks. Christina’s new piece, “What’s Eating Edible Arrangements” on the changes at Edible Arrangements sparked a conversation about gender roles that likely led to the success of the company that now goes by Edible. Then they unpack the company’s pivot to CBD and what its attempt at “wellness culture” really means.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the waves, Slate's podcast about gender, feminism, and this week, Pineapple |
| 0:20.0 | on Skewers. |
| 0:21.8 | Every episode you get a new pair of women to talk about the thing we can't get off of |
| 0:26.2 | our minds. And today you've got me Shannon Paulis, a senior editor at Sle Covering Science and Health. |
| 0:35.0 | And me, I'm Christina Kauterucci, a Slate Senior writer and host of The Slate Podcast Outward. |
| 0:41.0 | This week we're going to be talking about what happens when you cross a fruit basket |
| 0:49.0 | with a floral arrangement, with a pandemic, with a |
| 0:53.0 | wellness trends gone off the rails. |
| 0:56.0 | I'm talking about edible arrangements. |
| 0:59.0 | That is the best summary of an edible arrangement |
| 1:02.0 | that I've ever heard. Good job Shannon. |
| 1:04.0 | It contains multitudes. |
| 1:06.0 | Christina, I'm really excited to talk to you about this because you've been working on a piece |
| 1:11.0 | that I've been looking forward to ever since I first heard Tell of it in a slate meeting. |
| 1:17.0 | You have gone long on edible arrangements. |
| 1:22.0 | I cannot say that I've ever received an edible arrangement. I cannot say that I've ever received an edible arrangement myself or sent one. |
| 1:26.9 | Oh my God, I'm so sorry. |
| 1:28.3 | I'm so sorry to hear that, Shannon. |
| 1:30.0 | But I think that as you write in the piece, something like 90% of their potential customer base |
| 1:35.1 | is aware of edible arrangements. |
| 1:37.0 | So they're one of those things |
| 1:38.5 | that I've seen out in the world and thought, |
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