Truly - it is _not_ one world - though Campbells and Nabisco are hoping
to make it so. It makes product distribution so much easier when you
can ship the same nutritionally worthless commodities world-wide.
In my own travels, I find it at once both disappointing and comforting
to discover the same products sold in convenience stores (elsewhere
throughout the world known as "dens of theives") from LA to Long Island
(from one side of the US to the other). Used to, one could find unique
brands and local flavors throughout the land - now you've got to work
hard to escape the homogenization. BTW, I'm sure if you looked, you
could find 'Nilla Wafers almost anywhere in the world - a product which,
by the way, used to be called "VANilla Wafers", until some lawyer sued
Nabisco 'cause they weren't using _real_ vanilla in the recipe anymore,
because some other lawyer sued because it made someone sick, or might
have.
Of course, we Yanks are always getting bludgeoned for our intolerance -
but while we might gag and "e-e-e-e-u-w-w-w!" at the idea of drinking
milk fermented in someone else's saliva, or eating grubs and beetles,
horses or dogs (I hear the red ones are best...), we certainly wouldn't
stop someone else from doing so - and shoot, once I got the hang of it,
I found that I really liked eating good raw fish!
All that having been said, isn't it great that everyone can agree that
Olympus makes the finest cameras in the world, right? I mean _nobody_,
but _nobody_, could dispute that, right? ;^) But then again, maybe
that's just the Japanese industrial complex trying to homogenize the
world, themselves - oh-ho-ho, how sneaky! Maybe their plan is to
saturate the world with Olympus cameras...do you think?
Oh, and here I thought that Utes were a native American tribe - pardon
me, an "indigenous people of North America" - originally located in the
region now referred to as the American Southwest....
Andrew Fildes wrote:
>
> Once again an example of rampant US cultural imperialism. Doesn't it occur
> to you guys that non-US list members have no idea what a Nilla is? And that
> putting them in banana pudding may be culturally, gastronomically and
> religiously offensive (whatever they are)? It's not enought that Campbells
> bought our major local biscuit (cookie) manufacturer, putting the Iced VoVo
> traditon at risk but now they're importing the Oreo - a vastly inferior
> product to the local version. And while we're at it can we get it clear
> that a utility vehicle, the 'Ute,' is an Australian invention, has nothing
> to do with sport and is not a 4WD...
> Good grief
> Andrew :-)
> ps - Sam - Man.U!
>
> >Dunno... but have you noticed that Oreo cookies don't soak up milk quite as
> >well as they used to, either???
> >
> >I'm beginning to think that there's a plot of some sort afoot here.
> >
> >I've also noticed that the tires on my SUV don't hold up as well as they
> >used to either. Used to be able to run them at about 12 PSI on the
> >interstate at a steady 85 MPH before they'd separate. Wassup with that?????
> >
> >Jim
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Lex Jenkins [mailto:lexjenkins@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> >Sent: Friday, November 10, 2000 10:43 AM
> >To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >Subject: [OM] Re: [OT] Did Elian Gonzales cost Al Gore the election?
> >
> >
> >Speaking of religion and politics, has anyone else noticed that Nabisco
> >Nilla wafers get soggy too soon in banana pudding? Seems like they used to
> >stay crunchy longer. Wassup with that?
> >-----------
> >Lex Jenkins
> >-----------------------------------------------------------------
> >"Don't worry about everything 'cause nothing's gonna be alright."
> >- Casey Lechmanski
> >=================================================================
> >
> >>Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2000 22:03:51 -0600
> >>From: "Samuel Morales" <dolphans1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >>
> >>...Maybe what my mom told me when I was a child was correct, there are two
> >>things you never talk about in pubic, 1) religion, 2) politics...
> >
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