You Can't Make This Stuff Up!

[Lee Stewart]

You'll shoot your eye out kid!

[marxjunk]

Amazon has leg lamps, if you ever wondered where to get one...

[Lee Stewart]

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Back-to-back earthquakes measuring 7.0 and 5.7 shattered highways and rocked buildings Friday in Anchorage and the surrounding area, sending people running into the streets and briefly triggering a tsunami warning for islands and coastal areas south of the city.

[Lee Stewart]

Grossinger’s Catskill Resort Hotel, Liberty, USA

What a cryin' shame. The indoor pool of Grossinger's Hotel. In November of 1968 my mom was offered the position of Director of Corporate Sales at Grossingers. We left Forest Hills, NY and moved to the hotel. I graduated high school from Liberty Central High. I had my own room in a different building from mom. Mine was in the staff quarters while hers was in the executive staff quarters which was part of the main hotel. I became friends with Mark Etess who was Jennie Grossingers grandson. He later went to work for Trump in Atlantic City and was killed in a helicopter accident. My business partner and I had gone to AC and I ran into him - a week before he was killed.

I had numerous jobs at the hotel: waiter, bar waiter, carhop, lifeguard (at the indoor pool), bus driver and eventually became chauffeur for Paul Grossinger and his wife who maintained an apartment in NYC. I would go back and forth to NYC from Liberty about 2X per day driving Grossinger family and VIP guests. Drove a brand new Lincoln 4 door.

One of the side benefits to moving to Liberty was the ability to see my grandmother (my mom's mother) who lived about 15 miles away in a town called Loch Sheldrake.

[Lee Stewart]

What’s in a brand name? It can convey an aspirational idea, conjure up images of paradise, or forge a sense of connection between consumer and product. Hawaiian Snacks seems to cover all three. But it would seem that name doesn’t quite deliver on its promise, and a recently-filed lawsuit seeks to prove it.

According to the Honolulu Star Advertiser (article is behind a subscription paywall), Michael Maeda of Honolulu and Iliana Sanchez of LA were frustrated when they found out that the chips they assume originated in the 50th state were actually produced by Pinnacle subsidiary Tim’s Cascade Snacks. Their production facility is in Algona, Washington, located some 2,670 miles away from the Aloha State.

Though that little detail is mentioned if one reads the fine print on a Hawaiian Snacks bag, Maeda and Sanchez still feel like they had a case to sue. According to the Associated Press, the suit filed last week argues that consumers likely wouldn’t pay nearly as much for the chips had they known that neither the product nor its ingredients originated in Hawaii. The plaintiffs are hoping to win both an injunction and class-action level monetary damages for “false and deceptive marketing and sale of the Defendant’s Hawaiian brand snacks."

[67 Nova Boy]

Originally Posted by Lee Stewart

Have you ever noticed how all the fries are the same color and look particularly fresh for having been stored in the freezer for who knows how long? You can thank chemicals for that. After the fries are cut, they get covered in sugar so they are all the same color. Then, they’re coated in sodium acid pyrophosphate to keep them from turning gray when frozen.

I have detailed 1000's of cars in my day and when I find a french fry under a car seat that has been there since the 80's and STILL looks edible...kinda wonder what really is in the frys.

Dave
67 Nova Boy

[Lee Stewart]

Christmas at . . . . come on . . . you know where.

[Lee Stewart]

Originally Posted by 67 Nova Boy

I have detailed 1000's of cars in my day and when I find a french fry under a car seat that has been there since the 80's and STILL looks edible...kinda wonder what really is in the frys.

Dave
67 Nova Boy

Potatoes, Vegetable Oil (Canola Oil, Soybean Oil, Hydrogenated Soybean Oil, Natural Beef Flavor [Wheat and Milk Derivatives]*, Citric Acid [Preservative], Dextrose, Sodium Acid Pyrophosphate (Maintain Color), Salt. Prepared in Vegetable Oil: Canola Oil, Corn Oil, Soybean Oil, Hydrogenated Soybean Oil with TBHQ and Citric Acid added to preserve freshness. Dimethylpolysiloxane added as an antifoaming agent. Contains: Wheat and Milk. *Natural beef flavor contains hydrolyzed wheat and hydrolyzed milk as starting ingredients.

[Lee Stewart]

[Lee Stewart]