New, improved Was: Data Entry 1248

Hmmm... everything here made of chicken or turkey must be labeled as such, and the real pork sausage greatly outnumbers the fake stuff.

There is actually one fake polish sausage around here that is pretty good on a grill. Otherwise, I eat the real thing.

Sounds like you have a supermarket nightmare up north.

I think diet is just a marketing tool. The real reason for fake meat is found in the 2004 Almanac which lists the 2003 US chicken population at 22 billion.

Ahem: TWENTY TWO BILLION CHICKENS.

By comparison, there were only around 100 million cows...

Egads, it can't really be that bad... what town are you in where no one sells real sausage?

What gets me is the 1000 different varieties of things now.

The other day in a local market:

- 10 (TEN) different variations of orange juice, not counting different brands - 5 different Ritz cracker variations (and Triscuit, and Wheatables, etc)

Variations in things like tea I can understand, but do we really need multiple variations of buttered crackers?

The end result is that now everyone makes duplicates of what everyone else makes. Just like each type of store now tries to sell what every other type of store sells.

I think you need to move, and put up a warning sign as you leave town to others who might think of moving there.

-- shannon "AT" widomaker.com -- "An Irishman is never drunk as long as he can hold onto one blade of grbutt and not fall off the face of the earth."