Don’t abandon hope. The Thread of Northern Aggression may one day rise again.
Dude, lay off the hate-orade.
Damn. Okay, catch you at the next one! 
But that could be hours from now.
Oh ho ho! That bad, eh? Alright, I’ll work on it. Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue.
Actually, the sad part is that Smucker, and all the related smucks think the product is the same. Or, they lie, and the darned yankees can’t recognize the lie.
But, the ownership of Lily White are as much to blame, having allowed the brand name to be bought without any caveat that it must only apply to an identical product.
I suppose Smucker’s is our own version of Nestle. (Do they kill babies like Nestle, too?)
Tris
Well that’s funny. I picked this week to start sniffing glue.
Could you explain this please?
Nestle has had a practice of giving away free formula samples to mothers leaving hospitals in lower income nations. They would usually give the equivalent of about a month’s supply of formula to the departing mothers. The theory being, that it could be used to eke out the mother’s milk while it’s coming in, or for those times when the baby has to be left with someone who isn’t lactating.
In practice the supply gets used up in a month, quite often, and the mother, because she is not actually breast feeding dries up. Leaving the family with the choice of trying to pay for formula in a third world economy, finding a wet nurse, or seeing their baby die.
Goddamned yankees even killed this thread. Is no Southern institution safe?
Damn. That would be a touch decision. I guess it would all boil down to “which number baby is this?” and “is it cute enough to pose with Sally Struthers?”.
Are there any other flours with the same properties? What about Eden Organic Soft Winter?
What’s the deal with Martha White (also owned by Smuckers)? Is it still soft winter, or is it also being changed?
Is there any reason that southerners can not purchase the old mill and continue producing under a different name, or start up a new mill that mimics the old mill’s properties? Seems to me that if the produt is so highly valued to southerners, they should get their act together and either pruchase the mill or start their own.
What is the difference in the end result betwen red and white soft winter wheat?
Assume that you absolutely love Sprite, and it went out of business or changed its formula to New Sprite which tasted more like Fresca mixed with lemon furniture polish. (Substitute any product for Sprite really.) How much disposable income do you have in order to invest in a plant that makes a beverage that tastes exactly like Sprite (or whatever product)? How much experience do you have running such a plant, or even hiring people to run such a plant? If someone told you “start up costs should be around $12 million plus $2 million per year after that”, would that sound reasonable to you or would you have no idea whatever? How important is Sprite to you that you could really want to invest the time and money to find out? It’s just really not that easy if you don’t have major contacts in and experience with the business world to do that.
In three separate campaigns in three separate nations the Nestle’s corporation has aggressively marketed baby formula in third world countries with inadequate water sanitation over the specific requests of the governments of those nations. Thousands of infants died as a result. The company basically told the government of Gambia that they were not powerful enough to stop Nestle’s from doing whatever they wanted.
It’s all legal.
It has happened over forty years of deliberate marketing. Nestle’s spent more money advertising the education programs they started to repair their reputation (after the first round of public exposure in the sixties) than they spent on the actual programs.
I will never buy a Nestle’s product, and I encourage everyone to avoid them like the murdering bastards they are. It’s hard to do, too, they own everything. Carnation, Stouffer’s, and dozens of others.
Tris
Say Sampiro, that’s a nice handbasket you’re in. Where’re you heading?
To Nestle’s, apparently.
Even if you couldn’t afford it all on your own, or don’t personally know what to do, if there are enough old-Sprite-fans to make such a venture profitable, then you don’t need to set up shop yourself; someone who does have the requisite experience in such business should be willing to seize the chance to serve that market (though it may take some effort to convince them of the opportunities).
Otherwise (if such a venture wouldn’t be profitable), it sucks, but nobody could really be blamed for it. Who’s going to keep catering to your niche tastes out of their own pocket?
I’ve got a hankerin’ for some Tollhouse cookies made with LW’s exciting new flour…
<runs away, yodelling Dixie>
Okay, just wanted to point out that something like has happened in real life.
Hey, Church’s HQ is in San Antonio, 250 miles and four hours north of here. Damn, pickin’ on us southerners…