$6.99 for a jar of Helmans Mayonaise

First time in a long while I did not do a single trade today. Markets seem blah and I didn't get to bed last night till much later than my usual.

Or maybe it could be because I had too much mayo on the brain. :wtf:
 
SunTrader said:
First time in a long while I did not do a single trade today. Markets seem blah and I didn't get to bed last night till much later than my usual.

Or maybe it could be because I had too much mayo on the brain. :wtf:
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OMG!!! Same here. I didn't trade at all today either and just like you, I went to bed far too late and didn't sleep well at all. The dammn mayonnaise!!
 
newwurldmn said:
The Chinese are really good at adapting their food to the local palates of the people they are serving.

Fortune cookies were invented in San Fran as a distraction while people waited for their food.

The best kind of Chinese food is Indo Chinese (think a Chinese restaurant in India). It has even become common for Indian restaurants to offer it and Indian ethnic enclaves through the US will often have restaurants exclusively serving it.
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Damn, that sounds amazing
 
Rickshaw Man said:
Its the eggs
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Family down the road sells fresh eggs.
I won't eat the damn things.
When I was a kid I cracked open an egg, store bought, but it must have been before they do whatever it is they do now, because there was this partially developed chicken embryo in there. :vomit: :vomit: :vomit:

To this day that image remains and it still makes me want to puke.

I don't care how healthy they're supposed to be... I want bleach white eggs from some operation Krogers owns. I'll pay the $4/dozen or whatever it is.
 
nrstrader said:
Marketing, packaging and branding. There is nothing in existence that people are bigger fucking suckers with than food.

Quaker oatmeal is the best example. Like 3x the price of off brand oatmeal and all you are getting is the Ben Franklin looking guy on the packaging. I wouldn't be shocked that the oats are being purchased from the same farms and distributors.

It is pretty standard marketing to signal quality by having a higher price than the competitor. No one is going to have a double blind taste test of all possible tuna fish available and then do a cost benefit analysis. The brain just defaults to "the one that cost more must be of higher quality!"
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Taste may be the same... but I worry about the processing and packaging standards.
I'll take a Fortune 500 company that stands to lose billions in marketcap overnight with one mistake any day over some bs canned in India or Vietnam and shipped across the ocean in a cargo container.

And that's not just tuna, that applies to a lot of off brand stuff that these supposed discount grocers sell.
 
vanzandt said:
When I was a kid I cracked open an egg, store bought, but it must have been before they do whatever it is they do now, because there was this partially developed chicken embryo in there.
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We call them "peeps."
 
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