Ok, so that’s a bizarre topic name, but here goes:
A friend just brought me some Kentucky Fried Chicken for lunch. Moments ago, I was settling down to enjoy a nice buttermilk milk biscuit with honey when the wording on the honey packet caught my eye: “Honey Sauce”.
“Sauce?” thinks I. Then I check the ingredients: honey (so far so good), high fructose corn syrup (isn’t honey sweet enough?), sugar (isn’t corn syrup sweet enough??), corn syrup (guess not, they need two kinds), natural flavoring, and caramel color (of course, because at this point you have more sugar than honey so you need to make it taste and look like honey again). So what I’m about to put on my biscuit is basically honey flavored sugar. Is real honey really so expensive they can’t afford to give away a tablespoonful? The mind boggles.
Ok, so what products have you seen (or even bought) lately that confounded you?
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I once saw an advertisement for a meowing cat clock on the back cover of Parade magazine, that Sunday-paper throwaway. One of the ‘selling points’ of this thing was that it meowed every hour on the hour.
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Gr8kat… that is so funny! I had the same experience last night eating KFC!! In fact I was going to post a topic about it, but I forgot. As if geneticly mutated Chickstrosities wernt bad enough…
Dude, don’t laugh. My mom owns the horse and bird version of that clock. They are, I swear to God, the most annoying things I’ve ever dealt with in my life.
“I need the biggest seed bell you have. . . no, that’s too big.”–Hans Moleman
There is a cleaning product called K2R or something like that, the can has a brush on the cap. I once looked at the list of materials that it would not work on and it included:
Cotton
Polyester
Rayon
Silk
Wool
Linen
Wood
Plastics.
I can’t remember what else was listed, but esentially the stuff didn’t work on anything, the label said as much but they still sold it.
Gee, I don’t think any of us expected him to say that.
I thought the reason artificial vanilla flavouring was so popular is because the amount of real vanilla that is produced isn’t even enough for flavouring ice cream. What I don’t get is Rum flavoring. Why wouldn’t you use real Rum?
“You CAN’T be evil. 'Cos no matter how many ‘bad’ things you do on purpose,
you MUST be doing it because you think it’s the right thing to do.”
‘Real’ vanilla is expensive as heck. I used to buy the pods for a couple of cents, but now you get like two dinky ones for $2.
It was cool to take a pod and dump it in your sugar container and leave it there to get lightly scented sugar. Plus, if you slit a pod, scraped out the small amount of oily seeds and dumped them in a pan of simmering milk – the scent was magnificent. Add a little sugar and it tasted great!
Ever check out the back of a box of Hamburger Helper? It has a big, yellow sunburst, boldly boasting that it’s “Made with Real Ingredients”. Like this is a major selling point with food now?!
I’m finished having kids. The next diaper I want in my life is to be my own!
