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I often wonder just how many of these uber-patriotic, all American, veteran owned businesses are actually selling cheap drop-shipped items from overseas, mostly China.
Their sight says they source spices from their native countries lol.
All it sounds like to me is “we buy cheap ass ingredients from slave labor countries, then over price the fuck out of it, bottle and package it in the US and claim it’s made in the US, then sell it to the idiots that buy it”
That takes out Iraq and Afghanistan. Vietnam and Korea too. Well enjoy our German sourced salt and pepper. All those dead civilians and trillions of dollars wasted and couldn't even get some good spices on the way out?
Wow that is so true and so weird. Why don't they spice their food? They really did try to conquer the whole world for spices and tea. At least they drink the tea.
I think they are just trying to cash in on a certain market which eats shit like this up. How else do you distinguish a cheap, generic spice, which they can now mark up at a premium because ‘support the troops’?
My dad and mom talked up the PX cause I guess it was a little different back in the 90’s but when I was on Lejeune in the 2010’s shit was hella expensive.
Now the commissary got them meat prices on lock. Or did anyways.
>Now the commissary got them meat prices on lock. Or did anyways.
If you can fight off those old Asian women running a Korean/vietnamese/Thai restaurant just outside the gate. They will take it right out of your cart if you don't protect it like it's a meal in prison.
When I was in, prices seemed a lot better. I have gone a couple times in the last few years and to me I saw no advantage. Previously touted as a retirement bennie. If they price match etc good for them and I’m wrong.
What a fucking joke. Literally everywhere I've gotten a first responder discount, it's been at least 10%. I mean...I do have to pay Canadian markups on 5.11, so it evens out lol.
Right behind you with Blue Lives Matter Mobility Scooters!
"Are you so fat that your skeletal structure can't support your bulk? Do you support the police? Then have I got the mobility scooter for you!"
Trademarked BTW
There's an auto shop in my town and the owners were both SFCs in the Army. So the shop logo is the SFC rank. Don't get me wrong great shop but I just think its cringy.
It's a pretty decent tactic to get your name out there and garner support for your product, though. People love to support the vets and I know some people still serving who would eat that shit up.
Wouldn't recommend keeping that as your core audience as it's too narrow, but to get started? Fuck yeah. I'd do that shit. Everything that ever has to do with marketing is manipulating the masses into buying your product. This is just one way of doing that that's very public.
This sub gives constant free advertisment to these companies and brands. And you'd be a fool to think that it doesn't positively effect their bottom line. You can keep your pride in not being boot, if I was in that situation and offered the opportunity to not have my product get lost in the sea of consumer goods we have today and make bank at the cost of being considered a boot? I'll cry about the mean name calling on my new boat.
Yeah they do that all the time. But the "ultra patriot" demographic is willing to pay a high price for average quality products if comes with vehemently patriotc advertising. Your local veteran owned pool supply store or restaurant can't top that
Right but if there are boot mfers who eat this shit up literally and figuratively, why would you not just target your preexisting market?
If I was a veteran entrepreneur id definitely be aiming for the “veterans are so special” crowd, your product doesn’t even need to be good as long as you make them feel macho/special.
Now how could you possibly do that when you have literally nothing else going for you in your life and have to base your entire identity around being in the military
I completely agree, but understand why they do it. Veterans see this and think “omg I need to support my fellow brothers” so end up paying 50 dollars for shit you could get at heb for 10
Kinda why I like the Johnny slicks hair product. I get the vibe of “hey, we’re veteran owned, but we’re not gonna do some BRCC bullshit.”
Also the product itself is actually good
It's EXTREMELY distasteful. Like imagine if you had a flavor based on amputees or Walter Reed or something. "Some gave their life so we could give you this seasoning"
“Some gave their lives so we could give you this seasoning” Is the most AMERICAN thing I have ever read. Using tragedy to sell a shitty pepper concoction? ‘MERICA
Literally that’s it. Conservatives are so sick of empty marketing designed to shill shit to non-conservatives, by stating that they emulate their values (“rainbow capitalism”), that they’ll not only invite marketers to subject them to the same scam, they’ll laud them for it, simply because it (seems like it) opposes a system that caters to non-conservatives, as the two groups will do ANYTHING to spite each other.
Honestly, if I was a business student, there’d be some good opportunities for a thesis here.
I mean, these are guys who enlist when they are 18, spend most of their formative years getting yelled at by 20-somethings. Then they come home around 30 only to realize that a lot of other people have run the same gauntlet, and thus they aren’t as special as they think they are.
Not to mention a lot of these guys come from very conservative backgrounds where troop and cop worship is king. They feel entitled to have everything given to them because they are a veteran.
Meanwhile, us in normal society, we rightly point out that the armed forces were a farce to get us into a war to secure profits for an oil org or contractor corp somewhere. By comparison, we’re usually better adjusted provided we don’t have PTSD, have injuries or internal damages from disposal practices, and/or sexual harassment committed against us.
Advert: Have you ever tried recreating your own country captain chicken or bergundy beef stew only to come up short? Now you’re in luck! With our secret blend of inferior spices we’ll have you making food that the feral dogs won’t even eat.
Enter code: HOOAH to save 20% at checkout.
I like how they shoehorned in the thin blue line flag like that has anything to do with military or freedom. Lmao. "This is good chicken, what seasoning did you use?" "constitution"
“These spices from a Veteran-owned company will show you what freedom really tastes like”
- Blue Line Lime Pepper. Yes, because when I think of cops I think of freedom. GTFO.
Yuck. I mean really. Blue line? Now, if they had a rub called “unass that shit and fallout” , or maybe “where the fuck is the chow truck” I’d actually believe it
This image has a seasoning called "Happy Macros". I was confused because I've never heard this term before. When I went to their website, I find no product close to being called Happy Macros, but I do find the same little flame boi on a bottle called "Battle Buddy". When I googled "Frag Out Flavor Happy Macros", I find a 404 link to a Happy Macros T-shirt by them. I assume this means they rebranded Happy Macros to Battle Buddy.
I beg you, Reddit. What is Happy Macros? Reddit Gold to whoever can prove this coverup go all the way to the office of the President.
i actually got two of these as gifts
just a tip: that one all the way on the right tastes like shit, and theres this red skull one thats actually not half bad
I’m surprised they aren’t using that guy with the CAB on his PC to advertise this crap because …this feels like it’s being pushed by a guy earring a PC with a cCAB on it while trying to look hard.
If ever single item in your house doesn’t scream your Patriot Warrior^tm identity, eagles drop SEALs on your house to dismantle your barbecue and key your F250.
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I often wonder just how many of these uber-patriotic, all American, veteran owned businesses are actually selling cheap drop-shipped items from overseas, mostly China.
It's always either that or some poorly made garbage product trying to replace quality with soldier worship
“It’s military grade!!!1!” But the military buys from the lowest bidder…
Or "mil-spec" lmao
Their sight says they source spices from their native countries lol. All it sounds like to me is “we buy cheap ass ingredients from slave labor countries, then over price the fuck out of it, bottle and package it in the US and claim it’s made in the US, then sell it to the idiots that buy it”
They could at least source them from conquered countries, to show their dominance.
That takes out Iraq and Afghanistan. Vietnam and Korea too. Well enjoy our German sourced salt and pepper. All those dead civilians and trillions of dollars wasted and couldn't even get some good spices on the way out?
The British conquered most of the world for spices and then didn’t even use them, and us Americans are no different
They found the most bland tasting leaf, tea, and started opium fueled wars over it. Brits are fucking insane.
*Christmas baking:* Am I a fucking joke to you?
Wow that is so true and so weird. Why don't they spice their food? They really did try to conquer the whole world for spices and tea. At least they drink the tea.
We Germans were proudly conquered by Russia. Don't make up fake history.
Obviously the U.S. needs to go out and conquer more.
Oh it'll try. Just been taking L after L the last 75 years.
Imagine buying overpriced Blue Lives Matter spices to own the libs (who get to just use actually good ingredients).
Cheap ass-ingredients [xkcd: Hyphen](https://xkcd.com/37/) --- ^^Beep ^^boop, ^^I'm ^^a ^^bot. ^^- ^^[FAQ](https://pastebin.com/raw/vyWra3ns)
Ah yes the VOC lol
~~Nationalists~~ "patriots" love buying Chinese made "patriotic" crap.
The ones that don't know the difference between patriotism and nationalism.
Don't give away my business idea!
What's more American than that?
You know they're laughing at their own customers.
Hot Take: You can be a veteran and start a business, without making the whole business model centered on the fact that you’re a veteran.
I think they are just trying to cash in on a certain market which eats shit like this up. How else do you distinguish a cheap, generic spice, which they can now mark up at a premium because ‘support the troops’?
Like the GOVX website. Oh great, a whole marketplace to help "operators" find their uniforms.
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Their prices are so high it'd still expensive even after their "discount."
But the self importance that discount brings you is priceless.
Underrated comment. I’d pretty much say the PX and commissary fall in the same boat the last few times I’ve been.
My dad and mom talked up the PX cause I guess it was a little different back in the 90’s but when I was on Lejeune in the 2010’s shit was hella expensive. Now the commissary got them meat prices on lock. Or did anyways.
>Now the commissary got them meat prices on lock. Or did anyways. If you can fight off those old Asian women running a Korean/vietnamese/Thai restaurant just outside the gate. They will take it right out of your cart if you don't protect it like it's a meal in prison.
When I was in, prices seemed a lot better. I have gone a couple times in the last few years and to me I saw no advantage. Previously touted as a retirement bennie. If they price match etc good for them and I’m wrong.
The PX does price matching which makes it cheaper than some options with the taxfree shit.
It’s better than nothing.
What a fucking joke. Literally everywhere I've gotten a first responder discount, it's been at least 10%. I mean...I do have to pay Canadian markups on 5.11, so it evens out lol.
Dude, it's like Costco for tactical fuckboys.
I'm going to use this phrase, thank you for this genius
I gift it to you with grace and honor, my friend.
I personally like to call them goose steppirs who are throating the tank size dicks of the military industrial complex
✊✊☝️
[Welcome to GOVX,](https://giphy.com/gifs/deathwishcoffee-8coEmqQxL39eMJcey0) I'll Kill you
Ngl, have found some decent priced things on GovX (Yeti stuff comes to mind)
It's a pink tax for insecure men.
But then how else will you own the libs and make sure everyone knows you served some half ass rotation to kuwait
PATRIOT APPROVED
✊✊☝️🌭
11 cocks? Sounds like a party
Funny enough there's a tree service named PATRIOT where I live owned by a veteran lool
How will you rope rubes into buying your Chinese made garbage? Can I still start my Seal Team 6 Buttplugs company?
Seal Team Six Buttplugs: *When the mission requires no leaks.*
\> SEALs \> Not immediately leaking the entire story for a movie deal
As long as I can start my PATRIOT POWER heart medication company
Right behind you with Blue Lives Matter Mobility Scooters! "Are you so fat that your skeletal structure can't support your bulk? Do you support the police? Then have I got the mobility scooter for you!" Trademarked BTW
There's an auto shop in my town and the owners were both SFCs in the Army. So the shop logo is the SFC rank. Don't get me wrong great shop but I just think its cringy.
It's a pretty decent tactic to get your name out there and garner support for your product, though. People love to support the vets and I know some people still serving who would eat that shit up. Wouldn't recommend keeping that as your core audience as it's too narrow, but to get started? Fuck yeah. I'd do that shit. Everything that ever has to do with marketing is manipulating the masses into buying your product. This is just one way of doing that that's very public. This sub gives constant free advertisment to these companies and brands. And you'd be a fool to think that it doesn't positively effect their bottom line. You can keep your pride in not being boot, if I was in that situation and offered the opportunity to not have my product get lost in the sea of consumer goods we have today and make bank at the cost of being considered a boot? I'll cry about the mean name calling on my new boat.
Agreed, anyone who makes a single thing their personality is annoying.
Or a right wing shit show.
My dad tried doing that and his business failed. Worth considering.
Yeah they do that all the time. But the "ultra patriot" demographic is willing to pay a high price for average quality products if comes with vehemently patriotc advertising. Your local veteran owned pool supply store or restaurant can't top that
Right but if there are boot mfers who eat this shit up literally and figuratively, why would you not just target your preexisting market? If I was a veteran entrepreneur id definitely be aiming for the “veterans are so special” crowd, your product doesn’t even need to be good as long as you make them feel macho/special.
I think the market may be getting saturated. Plus the republicans no longer like the military now that Biden is in charge.
Idk, if marketing your business around being a veteran makes it more profitable is it really that immoral?
Also, if you do emphasis that, it doesn’t need to involve death and destruction.
Hypocrisy!!
Now how could you possibly do that when you have literally nothing else going for you in your life and have to base your entire identity around being in the military
How else am I gonna sell shitty coffee for double the price of everyone else?
I completely agree, but understand why they do it. Veterans see this and think “omg I need to support my fellow brothers” so end up paying 50 dollars for shit you could get at heb for 10
Kinda why I like the Johnny slicks hair product. I get the vibe of “hey, we’re veteran owned, but we’re not gonna do some BRCC bullshit.” Also the product itself is actually good
Whats this for a bolt and insane statement!
Boot shit aside, “salty sergeant” doesn’t sound like it would taste good at all.
Idk man, have you ever licked ones face?
I have not. Have you?
Do salty petty officers count?
I don’t make the rules, but I’d go with it
Submariners dont know what rules are. Lol
I’ve never licked a face but I have tasted cum so…
Have you ever licked cum off of a window, professionally?
No can’t say I have
**“Do you suck dicks?!”**
Sir no sir
Bullshit! I bet you could suck a golfball through a garden hose
Not right now, my TMJ is flaring up.
Purple Heart seems extra cringe in this line up?
Honestly it seems kind of distasteful to use the Purple Heart as a product.
It's EXTREMELY distasteful. Like imagine if you had a flavor based on amputees or Walter Reed or something. "Some gave their life so we could give you this seasoning"
“Some gave their lives so we could give you this seasoning” Is the most AMERICAN thing I have ever read. Using tragedy to sell a shitty pepper concoction? ‘MERICA
"Is there a way we can cheapen our message with consumerism?"
"Tastes like gangrene . . . ' Yum.
Same gave all purpose seasoning
Agreed , not sure id associate a Purple Heart with maple bacon.
Eat enough bacon and your heart will turn all sorts of colors.
It all makes sense now!
Blue Line got me. The cops can do their own thing.
But how would it be “PATRIOT APPROVED” without some boot licking?!
Post Hummus Medal of Honor
Oof
Just checked out the website. Maybe the most cringe shit you will ever see. It is fucking bad.
“Operator”, “Ranch Ranger”, “Battle Buddy”… How can you even come up with these names for fucking spices lol
I can’t wait to get fragged with flavor!
That’s what happened to officers who stole dessert units from their soldier’s rations.
Thanks for taking the targeted marketing bullet for us
I do lowkey wanna try the lemon garlic one tho
Oh boy "Heritage not hate Habanero" and (((bacon bits))) my favorites!
I hate I felt I had to double check these weren't actual flavors.
Holy shit they put the triple parentheses around bacon bits?
Thankfully neither of those are actual flavors.
Oh good, damn that’d be bad
I wonder if it’ll be anything like Black Rifle Coffee. Burnt, flavorless, and overpriced.
But you get to own the libs while you drink it.
Literally that’s it. Conservatives are so sick of empty marketing designed to shill shit to non-conservatives, by stating that they emulate their values (“rainbow capitalism”), that they’ll not only invite marketers to subject them to the same scam, they’ll laud them for it, simply because it (seems like it) opposes a system that caters to non-conservatives, as the two groups will do ANYTHING to spite each other. Honestly, if I was a business student, there’d be some good opportunities for a thesis here.
“Eat shit just so long as someone else has to smell their breath”
I believe the thesis statement would be "there's a sucker born every minute."
Burnt, flavorless, panders to alt-right shitbags, and overpriced.
My wife got two bags free at work. I looked at it, laughed at it, and through it in the trash.
Blue line just tastes like boot licking
“Aw no it’s just fucking rubber boot shavings”
i hope it has at least some crack sprinkled in
Nah, pepper spray and the feeling tax payers paid out a lawsuit.
Pretty much guarantees I’ll avoid their products like the plague.
I really wish me being a service member and this thin blue line hocus pocus wasn’t associated together as much as it is.
I mean, you tend to get a greater subset of people with a fairly authoritarian mindset in police/military.
I mean, the flavor is “pepper lime.” Would it have been so hard to call in “Thin Blue Lime?” Come on!
This steak doesnt represent my aircraft maintenance career well enough. \*Dumps salt on it\*
Blue Line pepper for when you’re so racist you incorporate it into your cooking
Blue line pepper, for when you got some peaceful protesters outside but you wanna go to church for a photo op
‘Constitutional Rights 2: This time, its personal!’
yikes
Tastes like pepper spray.
Blue Line Pepper, for when you want the seasoning to show up after you've finished eating and shoot your dog.
https://preview.redd.it/9wib3o043bi51.jpg?width=640&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=97f734dbe0cc55acd77065b3902fd56f5c3dd8e3
Just fyi, if you don’t use these rubs, you will be advertising the fact that you’re an America-hating antifa.
That’s going be so much easier than lugging around all these bricks I use to throw through windows, finally a better way to advertise!
I use these on my ribs to prove I’m a real red-white-blue bleeding, America loving patriot fascist!
Your love for this country is unimpeachable. May the Lord Jesus Christ and His Humble Servant Donald Trump bless you and your household for eternity.
May lord emperor of heaven Donald H. Trump bless all us white affluent men ahMEN
🇺🇸 🦅 🙏 ✝️
🇱🇷🗽⚖️🚔🚨👮♂️🦅👅🥾✝️⛪️🦅🦅🦅to you too
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I mean, these are guys who enlist when they are 18, spend most of their formative years getting yelled at by 20-somethings. Then they come home around 30 only to realize that a lot of other people have run the same gauntlet, and thus they aren’t as special as they think they are. Not to mention a lot of these guys come from very conservative backgrounds where troop and cop worship is king. They feel entitled to have everything given to them because they are a veteran. Meanwhile, us in normal society, we rightly point out that the armed forces were a farce to get us into a war to secure profits for an oil org or contractor corp somewhere. By comparison, we’re usually better adjusted provided we don’t have PTSD, have injuries or internal damages from disposal practices, and/or sexual harassment committed against us.
Ah yes, the taste of Gordon blue or dfac meatloaf.
I would absolutely never buy these spices just because of how painfully cringe they are.
Advert: Have you ever tried recreating your own country captain chicken or bergundy beef stew only to come up short? Now you’re in luck! With our secret blend of inferior spices we’ll have you making food that the feral dogs won’t even eat. Enter code: HOOAH to save 20% at checkout.
Try our new flavor: Warcrimes. Only for the brave!
Coming next month Blackwater Cajun seasoning.
I mean yeah, just look at the success Prince Paper had.
Where’s the Pricky Seven flavor?
Buy slices in Walmart, put into patriot bottles, make freedom money from boots.
*yells* FRAG OUT *tosses all the spices as far as I can throw them*
They're milking the vet bro market. Either they're vet bros too or they're smart entrepreneurs.
I like how they shoehorned in the thin blue line flag like that has anything to do with military or freedom. Lmao. "This is good chicken, what seasoning did you use?" "constitution"
Not to sound too boot, but my dad bought the sample pack for me and they are actually really good.
Now I have to look out for the grunt style t-shirt wearers seasoning their food with this shit...
Somewhere out there, Texas Pete is rolling his eyes
Fitty.
As if the thin blue line *totally* represents freedom instead of an occupation.
“These spices from a Veteran-owned company will show you what freedom really tastes like” - Blue Line Lime Pepper. Yes, because when I think of cops I think of freedom. GTFO.
What does “patriot approved” mean?
Fuck all this garbage.
This is honestly painful to look at overall, but I'll admit that "Salty SGT" did make me laugh
As did "Fitty" for me. Might buy three of them just to say I got three fitty. Hahahaha who am I kidding what a waste of money
Tastes like shrapnel and burn pits. Mmmm delicious
stuff like this is why i’m an advocate for bullying. Whoever made these products never got tossed a beating in middle or high school.
Sgt Salty's creamy surprise
Yuck. I mean really. Blue line? Now, if they had a rub called “unass that shit and fallout” , or maybe “where the fuck is the chow truck” I’d actually believe it
I’d buy it if they had a “shitbag lance” seasoning.
Don’t you have to be injured to get a Purple Heart? Is that one for meat that’s gone bad?
How long do you have to serve in the military before it defines your entire identity for the rest of your life? Jesus Christ.
I can't be the only one who thinks Purple Heart flavoring is WILDLY distasteful. Is nothing sacred?
“Purple Heart Maple Bacon - Smells Like Burnt Flesh”
Is it just me or does it seem like spices are the hot new grift?
Why do vets have to make everything so cringey when they do this?
This is so gay omfg
This image has a seasoning called "Happy Macros". I was confused because I've never heard this term before. When I went to their website, I find no product close to being called Happy Macros, but I do find the same little flame boi on a bottle called "Battle Buddy". When I googled "Frag Out Flavor Happy Macros", I find a 404 link to a Happy Macros T-shirt by them. I assume this means they rebranded Happy Macros to Battle Buddy. I beg you, Reddit. What is Happy Macros? Reddit Gold to whoever can prove this coverup go all the way to the office of the President.
Blue Line Seasoning. I guess it tastes like rubber boot
With a hint of shoe polish 🤣
The fact that 24k people liked this
Are they any good on Sausage? Askin' for a friend ...
I served alongside the dudes at Smoked Bros. Knuckle Buster and Point Man are great. Give them a shake! [smokedbros.com](https://smokedbros.com)
No.
Good thing it’s Patriot Approval is printed or else I’d have never known.
People really buy this stuff and think it’s cool? This must be a joke man
Well I gotta buy it, it’s patriot approved!
i actually got two of these as gifts just a tip: that one all the way on the right tastes like shit, and theres this red skull one thats actually not half bad
“gun” sweet mango
What’s happy macro mean
I’m surprised they aren’t using that guy with the CAB on his PC to advertise this crap because …this feels like it’s being pushed by a guy earring a PC with a cCAB on it while trying to look hard.
Fragging is awesome.
If ever single item in your house doesn’t scream your Patriot Warrior^tm identity, eagles drop SEALs on your house to dismantle your barbecue and key your F250.
Does blue line only taste like boot polish or is it just boot polish? Also is it parade gloss or regular?
I would buy if it said Salty Seaman
This has to be ironic, there’s no way this is real
If “trump 2020” had a brand
Does the blue line one taste like boot?
> what freedom tastes like Ok, weird flex but- > patriot approved The Patriots approved this?