Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Hormel's Not The Boss of Me
I personally think the folks at Hormel are getting just a little too heavy handed. It's one thing to tell me heat up a pork roast in the microwave for four minutes, but what's with this "serve and enjoy" business? I'll leave it up to me as to whether or not I'll enjoy my pork roast, thank you. If I choose to serve and gag uncontrollably - well, dammit, that's my decision!
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
7 comments:
Interesting. I think you're on to something as opposed to being on something. Hormel or Van Kamps. Have you seen their can of pork and beans lately. Beautiful graphics that could make you salivate at the thought of the incredible meal that awaits you. Open the can, and out pops a congolmeration of beans, small microscopic bits of what chemically is theorhetically supposed to be the pork. Suddenly, as you try to scrape out the contents which tends to stick on the sides of the can as if it had bonded with the sides is a thick glob of . . . are you ready? . . . lard. Now, I'm not sure what possessed the manufacturers to dream up this conconction of fat, pure fat, that would be appealing to incorporate into a can of pork and beans, but it's down there and there's is a big fat glob of that thing.
So the question is, do you eat it? Is it there for color? Is it meant to be mixed into the rest of the meal somehow? What is the purpose of putting in pure lard into a food product? Do they put pork and beans into packages of lard? I don't know because I don't purchase lard.
I've always been a little uneasy with a can of beans because of the goo they're floating in. It seems too thick for water and I've never heard anyone mention "bean juice" in any context. Maybe I need to buy a better brand of beans; but then I always thought Pennzoil was a quality product.
Pennzoil IS a good product. This reminds me of dirt and fertilizer. Isn't amazing that we actually PAY for dirt and crap? I've always been puzzled that people would pay good money for that. Of course, one could argue that it's clean dirt, right? Free of impurities and weed seeds. Still can't get over that one because it seems to ironic. Anyway, leave me alone while I drink my bottled water.
Based upon the breeze heading my way from the neighbor's driveway every spring, you can't really convince me that we're talking about clean dirt.
I will say that I, like most of my contemporaries, am willing to pay for convenience such as bottled water, fast food, laundry and car washes. If I can buy a bag of dirt from Home Depot, I'm willing to forego the trip next door in the middle of the night to grab a wheel barrow or two of their dirt.
But that's the problem with America. We've become a country of lazy fat asses. We should get off of our duffs and do some real work rather letting some svelte immigrant do our landscaping for us as we wile away the hours surfing channels. Whatever happened to real work as opposed to pushing paper around!
Hey, don't make fun of janitors!
Clean up your act!
Post a Comment