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BS: Food Preservative Conspiracy!

12 Feb 03 - 01:41 AM (#888289)
Subject: BS: Food Preservative Conspiracy!
From: GUEST

I just returned from a trip to the Dollar General store. I was putting my purchases away and found that I have a bottle of salad dressing with a printed use-by-date of May, 3003 and a box of teabags with a use-by-date of October, 3004. That means they are good for slightly more than one thousand years!   How and why are our foods being processed so that they have such a long shelf-life? Obviously the food processing companies are loading everything with preservatives so that they'll keep longer in case war breaks out! It must be a conspiracy between Dollar General Stores and the Bush family. Hey, there's a reason why that "General" is in Dollar General! Colin Powell used to be a General! Come to think of it, Dollar General's chief competitor is Family Dollar. "Bush Family" - "Family Dollar"! Get the connection? And it's no accident that this conspiracy is showing up first in the cheapo dollar stores. Who are their customers? The downtrodden unwashed masses. Enslave the lower classes first and work your way up is how they do it. Pretty soon you'll see the same thing at Albertson's and then even at trendy little gourmet markets.

I just wanted to share this with you quickly before I forgot about it. I've got to leave for a while to go get my meds adjusted. I'll check back in as soon as I return.


12 Feb 03 - 05:20 AM (#888357)
Subject: RE: BS: Food Preservative Conspiracy!
From: JennyO

Why GUEST, I do believe you are developing a sense of humour!

3003? 3004? Yeah right.


12 Feb 03 - 06:57 AM (#888390)
Subject: RE: BS: Food Preservative Conspiracy!
From: Rapparee

Oh, goody! What brands? I'll eat a lot of them and so save money on embalming if I ever die.


12 Feb 03 - 10:35 PM (#889139)
Subject: RE: BS: Food Preservative Conspiracy!
From: leprechaun

This is nothing new. The global capitalists have been poisoning us with preservatives for years. I'll bet whoever marked those packages has been "disappeared." Another connection you conveniently "forgot" to mention: Capitalist - Dollar. Oh how blind you people all are!


12 Feb 03 - 10:48 PM (#889152)
Subject: RE: BS: Food Preservative Conspiracy!
From: Bobert

Ahhhhhh, if you look closely at the shelf dates you'll see that little "b.c" before them dates.....

Brings a new meaning to the term "aged"...

Bobert


13 Feb 03 - 12:22 AM (#889205)
Subject: RE: BS: Food Preservative Conspiracy!
From: Bee-dubya-ell

Hold everything here bucakaroos and buckarettes! I just found a bottle of French dressing in my own refrigerator with a 3003 expiration date and it came from (drum roll) Wal-Mart. (Don't gimme no shit about shopping at Wal-Mart. Save it for another thread.) Does this open up a whole new can of worms, or what?

Nah! Some dumbass in a packing plant probably doesn't know how to set the dating machine. Anyway, why'd they wanna make salad dressing last for a thousand years? Probably won't be any lettuce around by then. I don't think French dressing is any good on Soylent Green.

Bruce


13 Feb 03 - 12:38 AM (#889208)
Subject: RE: BS: Food Preservative Conspiracy!
From: Mark Cohen

Don't worry, somebody was just trying to get a head start on the Y3K problem. Your food is still just as safe as ever. Uh...yeah...well...just call it a figure of speech.

Aloha,
Mark


13 Feb 03 - 01:01 AM (#889219)
Subject: RE: BS: Food Preservative Conspiracy!
From: mack/misophist

Wasn't there a story, some years back, about a common preservative "BHT" that's actually GOOD for you in small doses.


13 Feb 03 - 01:23 AM (#889224)
Subject: RE: BS: Food Preservative Conspiracy!
From: GUEST,.gargoyle

Eat and enjoy!

Just think of the money your family will save on embalming. They can lay you out in the parlor for a week and you won't even stink.

Sincerely,
Gargoyle


13 Feb 03 - 05:33 AM (#889293)
Subject: RE: BS: Food Preservative Conspiracy!
From: Wolfgang

A very nice parody on GUESTs conspiracy ramblings. Close enough in way of thinking so we know which of our beloved GUESTs is meant, different enough in style so we know it is a regular Mudcatter making fun of GUEST.

GUEST themselves takes all this conspiracy stuff much too serious to show humour.

Wolfgang