BRC Internship: Day 2

Second day at the internship. I spent a large part of the day learning more about the company and the employees, researching articles to post, and “scoring” the chips. To score, the chips are cut into rectangles (or something close to a rectangle) with a large pastry wheel contraption before they are put into the dehydrator to dry. Scoring them ensures that they can easily be broken apart once they are dried. I got to work with two guys that I didn’t get the chance to meet yesterday; both were my age, also students (at one point or another, if not currently), and fairly nice. The rest of the day was spent doing social media marketing- keeping the conversation going about things I post on Facebook and Twitter.

Considering how often I have to post, I need to try and keep things fresh while filtering out what isn’t “acceptable” as much as possible. It is challenging because raw foods is such a niche; there are only so many quality news articles directed towards raw foods per week, only so many recipes I can post per day, etc. I tried broadening my scope and though that vegan and vegetarian news, recipes, etc. would be good additions (things I understood and could talk clearly and intelligently about) in addition to making comments about what activities people might be doing to celebrate a beautiful day (eating outside and grilling- if you’re not a raw foodist, but still like and follow the company), but I was pretty much shot down in flames. It came down to a miscommunication about the company directive and what I should and shouldn’t expand on, but it was my first day and nobody does their job perfectly on their first day. Hell, there are some people who never do their job perfectly, those who hardly put as effort into their work or brainstorming ideas… so I’m over it.

Thankfully, I was able to find some quality links fairly quickly this morning and save them for posting in the next few days; I’ll probably do more research tonight so I can have a nice bookmark folder filled with content to post as the weeks go on. I like stumbling across nice, well-designed raw food websites that have delicious-looking recipes. Most “raw” recipes often sound complicated, calling for a lot of special or uncommon ingredients (in my pantry, at least), but there have been a few that sounded “normal” and very tempting to make. I actually might try a few someday, like one “raw” Key Lime Pie recipe I found today.

Going with the topic of recipes, my favorite question to ask people on Twitter and Facebook is what they are planning to eat for lunch/dinner/breakfast. I hope my question doesn’t get to be redundant after a while, because I posted the same variation of the question a few times already, but I feel that it is justified. Not only does the exchange of ideas and recipes stimulate conversation, but it also gives me a much-needed chance to learn more about what, exactly, raw foodies eat. The supporters of the company are certainly very active and seem to like answering the questions I ask; some even go as far as to answer different questions daily or multiple times a day. One fan even posted a recipe for “raw fajitas” that she makes often; they (honestly) looked simple and delicious when I saw the picture that she posted of them, and I was able to give her a few suggestions about what she might consider adding the next time she makes them.

Well, tomorrow is another day. Apparently a local TV station is coming in to do a feature about the company and we might visit a farm, so that should be exciting.