So how much is a presidential endorsement worth to me?
Posted on 02/23/2020 9:09:12 AM PST by Hojczyk
When Mikaila Ulmer was four years old, she received an old cookbook from her grandmother. It was tattered and the covering was falling off, but the recipes were still intact. Thumbing through the pages, she stumbled on a mixture for flaxseed lemonade.
“We tried making it, and it tasted really good,” Mikaila recalled in an interview years later.
The Austin, Texas, native decided to sell the concoction at a lemonade stand. After a while—and an additional touch of her own, an infusion of honey, inspired by a newfound fascination with bees (more on that later)—Mikaila was encouraged by a local shop owner to bottle and label the lemonade, which would allow the shop owner to carry it.
By that time, Mikaila had demonstrated enough success to score a break: She was invited on Shark Tank, ABC’s hit show, which features wealthy business people investing in budding entrepreneurs. Her business savvy and charm (not to mention her adorable smile) won the Sharks over that day, and Mikaila received a $60,000 cash injection from Daymond John.
She parlayed her 2015 Shark Tank appearance into a dinner date with President Obama and, later, an $11-million deal with Whole Foods. Today, Me & the Bees Lemonade is sold in hundreds of stores and can be purchased on Amazon for $45 per 12-pack.
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If only America weren’t such a racist country, she’d have a billion dollar company and a Nobel Peace prize.
Her web site..
Introducing the Commander-in-
That’s some expensive lemonade.
Thats what I though...Obama can afford it....
The video is great she was eleven at the time...I though it was going to be Trump..but it was still good..
I wonder if Obama said she did not build it..
Six bucks a bottle!
But at least you get “free” shipping...
I assume she is black? Daymond John & Obama are too...
So how much is a presidential endorsement worth to me?
$3.75 a bottle? Nope, no way. More stupid money.
$6 a bottle? Wow!
Simmer the flaxseed for an hour or so.
Strain, add sugar and lemon juice
Done
Bammy would say....you didn’t build that!
I shop at whole foods a lot, but I don't understand the market for this sort of nonsense. There is the stuff they are good at - fresh produce, good quality meat, etc. and then there is a lot of stuff that is a bit odd and so overpriced that you cannot understand why anyone would bother. I sure don't.
“Ferb, I know what we are going to do today...
Hey, where’s Perry?”
What a great story! Such a well-spoken and pretty little girl.
I came up with $3.75 -- 45 divided by 12.
Part of it is donated to bee "well-beeing." Easy way for millenials who don't go to church to give back a little.
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