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Thread ID: 81771	2007-08-06 21:15:00	I've just gone off Peanut butter	Digby (677)	PC World Chat

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577265	2007-08-10 18:36:00	But i will try to avoid things that are possibly toxic/pathogenic/dangerous due to unapproved practice (like lead based paint on toddler toys) Durr, do you walk into toyshops with your handy leadpaintometer with you so you can check every toy before you buy it. Yes and what about pajamas. Years ago there were quite a few people burnt due to the high flammablilty of some pyjamas, so they made it a rule that they had to be made of inflammable material. I wonder if the jammies we buy now are of this standard ? Regards Digby	Digby (677)
577266	2007-08-10 21:16:00	atleast with aussie stuff we have a fair idea of how safe the food is as they actually have standardsWhile my long term memory fails me, i do seem to recall almost the same argument being used with American cars and their parts. "Buy American for quality" and similar slogans were thrust upon us, and we believed it. We actually believed that the Japanese engines and gearboxes were just poor imitations of the American product until it became impossible to ignore the fact that the outsourced manufacturing was producing parts that were more efficient and lasted longer. Why? Because the Japanese saw the specifications as a minimum standard. It would be shameful to produce components that poor, they would be rejected. However the American manufacturers saw the specs and tolerances as a kind of guideline. The Japanese parts weren't just cheaper, they were actually far better. Of course it was easy to slag of the foreign manufacturers, as after all, we didn't drink with them at the same pub, and they looked different too. It was so easy to project our own lack of standards on to them while we made jokes about funny shaped eyes, and gave their projects funny sounding names that were pure mockery, something we would roar with laughter about as we drunk with our mates. Now moving on to the food issue. I see times have changed. Or have they?	personthingy (1670)
577267	2007-08-10 21:45:00	Durr, do you walk into toyshops with your handy leadpaintometer with you so you can check every toy before you buy it. Yes and what about pajamas. Years ago there were quite a few people burnt due to the high flammablilty of some pyjamas, so they made it a rule that they had to be made of inflammable material. I wonder if the jammies we buy now are of this standard ? Regards Digby Careful there: Definitions of inflammable on the Web: * Same as flammable. Capable of catching fire easily and burning rapidly. Also, having a flash point below 100º Fahrenheit. www.union.edu/Academics/Departments/Science/Safety/Hazcom/hazcomManualGlossaryMSDS.htm * Easily set on fire. www.federated.ca/gloss/i.htm * flammable: easily ignited wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn I think what you mean is :"non-flammable" or "non-inflammable". Those two also mean the same.	SurferJoe46 (51)
577268	2007-08-11 01:32:00	Switch the labels and see if anyone can tell the difference. I think it was CocaCola which was planning a big advertising campaign based on the idea that their taste of their carbonated flavoured sweetened water was unique and could be spotted by the consumers. A proper test showed that people couldn't tell the difference. "Truth in advertising" laws put a stop to that idea.	Graham L (2)
577269	2007-08-11 01:42:00	I did that coke test at school, it was coke, pepsi and the soda stream coke. Out of a hundred people over 80 recognised the difference between coke and pepsi. Over 60 recognised the difference between pepsi and ss. 100 recognised the difference between coke and ss. For straight taste 88 recognised coke and 68 recognised pepsi. ss was not really the common thing so most said imitation coke/cheap soft drink etc. Mind you that was 15 years ago.	rob_on_guitar (4196)
577270	2007-08-13 07:46:00	Campbell is doing this after the adverts tonight.	rob_on_guitar (4196)
577271	2007-08-13 08:24:00	Coke is far superior to Pepsi in taste and all the copies are not even in the game. Best Coke I ever tasted was on an Alitalia flight over Italy to London. Coke tastes slightly different in countries due to the local water used. I remember that Coke used to taste better than it does now back in the Sixties, KFC also bears no resemblance to what it used to be like in the early days of its introduction to NZ.	zqwerty (97)
577272	2007-08-13 09:06:00	Coke is far superior to Pepsi in taste and all the copies are not even in the game. Best Coke I ever tasted was on an Alitalia flight over Italy to London. Coke tastes slightly different in countries due to the local water used. I remember that Coke used to taste better than it does now back in the Sixties, KFC also bears no resemblance to what it used to be like in the early days of its introduction to NZ. So true Zq,a great way of delivering sugar.	Cicero (40)
577273	2007-08-13 09:26:00	John H: On Friday, you described Sanitarium as the maker of Marmite and other "iconic" southern hemispere foods. I waited for you to be torn apart - limb by limb - by antipodean baby-boomers who spent so much of their OE time arguing with Marmite-eating Pommie flatmates that Earls Court grocers were forced to import Vegemite ( made by Kraft, actually ) or lose their Anzac customers. The Marmite/Vegemite wars were legenday - long before TV ads about Vogel's bread - together with jokes about lamingtons & chocolate fish. (And what were those chocolate-covered caramel/marshmallow bars we froze? Memory fails those...) But it seems that nobody cares. So although you may keep your limbs, I believe a mild reproof is in order..?	Laura (43)
577274	2007-08-13 10:03:00	Coke is far superior to Pepsi in taste and all the copies are not even in the game. Best Coke I ever tasted was on an Alitalia flight over Italy to London. Coke tastes slightly different in countries due to the local water used. coke, like beer, also tastes different depending on the packaging; as such they try to charge more for a 390ml glass bottle than a 600ml plastic. and coke from fast food places like BK, macdonalds and wendy's tastes different as they mix it on the spot and alter the concentration of concentrate as they please :2cents:	motorbyclist (188)
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