The Waves: Edible Arrangements Is Getting Into the Wellness Industry
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 30 April 2022
⏱️ 40 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, Slates podcast about gender, feminism, and this week pineapple on |
| 0:20.3 | skewers. |
| 0:21.8 | Every episode you get a new pair of women to talk about the things we can't get off |
| 0:26.1 | of our minds. |
| 0:27.8 | And today you've got me, Shannon Paulis, a senior editor at Slate covering science |
| 0:33.7 | and health. |
| 0:35.3 | And me, I'm Christina Katerucci, a Slate senior writer and host of the Slate podcast |
| 0:40.9 | outward. |
| 0:44.0 | This week we're going to be talking about what happens when you cross a fruit basket |
| 0:49.1 | with a floral arrangement, with a pandemic, with a wellness trend gone off the rails. |
| 0:56.0 | I'm talking about edible arrangements. |
| 0:59.2 | That is the best summary of an edible arrangement that I've ever heard. |
| 1:03.1 | Good job, Shannon. |
| 1:04.2 | It contains multitudes. |
| 1:05.7 | Christina, I'm really excited to talk to you about this because you've been working on |
| 1:10.6 | a piece that I've been looking forward to ever since I first heard Tel Avitt in a Slate |
| 1:16.6 | meeting. |
| 1:17.6 | You have gone long on edible arrangement. |
| 1:21.9 | I cannot say that I've ever received an edible arrangement myself or sent one. |
| 1:26.8 | Oh my God, I'm so sorry. |
| 1:28.2 | 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 |
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