It’s been a very, very long time since I’ve even heard the words “good & plenty” candy. If it’s what I remember it to be, it was okay. I’m not fond of black licorice. But the candy was enticing in appearance, fun and pretty to look at and easy to hold in the hand, and fairly good sized candy bites too. All in all, it’s a good candy to munch on.
Suzanne McMillen-Fallon, Published Author 2012
“For as awareness is so is God consciousness.”
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Gad. Just thinking about those Chunky monsters - and when they came available in the local grocery store, they were a helluva contrast against Hershey bars - makes my teeth ache.
YUM! They use to taste better when I was a kid. Maybe it's just me, but I find that all candies are skimping on the old family recipe. Pretty much the same with mostly all consumables.
You're right, they're smaller and the quality is no longer there...at least not the same quality as back in the 80s. Not to mention they cost 3-4 times as much.
Nope. It's simply that the U.S. dollar in your personal pocket is WORTH more than 75% less.
Don't mix up "price" (in Federal Reserve System-debauched "dollars") with VALUE.
Adjusting for currency degradation imposed upon us by those sons of bitches in the District of Columbia, you'll find that the real cost of your beloved Chunky bars is LOWER than it was when the product was being distributed by Wrigley (Nestlé only acquired the product in 1984).
Efficiencies of production and transportation do count for something, even in the face of the hundreds of thousands of obstructions and impairments imposed by the hateful bastards who masquerade as a "government" in our republic.
Part of the reason they "used to taste better" when you were a kid is that federal government sugar subsidies have pushed the price of cane sugar prohibitively high relative to high-fructose corn syrup sweetener products.
TV commercials to the contrary, there is a DEFINITE taste difference between confections and soft drinks made strictly according to the old recipes, and those made under the "picking winners" policy of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Friends of mine who live down along the border in Texas boast of picking up multiple cases of Coca-Cola bottled in Mexico, where the price supports dictated by the bought dogs in Mordor-on-the-Potomac don't have any effect, and these soft drink connoisseurs inform reliably that just about ANYBODY can do a blind taste-test to perceive the difference between Coke made with real sugar and the stuff we're stuck with in the rest of these United States.
As with everything else in your life, if it sucks horribly, you can't go wrong by blaming it on those motherless scheming bastards in Washington.
Talk about candy forces discussion of federal government sugar subsidies (including tariffs that screw the consumer who wants to buy cheap cane sugar from vendors in Brazil). This leads to further discussion about all the ways in which our "public servants" cripple and rob us to serve the special interests who have bought them like the whores they are.
Which is how it came to be that "the country is burning under this administration."
Y'see how that works?
Note that line from the novel (1951) and the play (1953) *The Teahouse of the August Moon* which goes:
"Pain make man think. Thought make man wise. Wisdom make life endurable."
Suzanne McMillen-Fallon, Published Author 2012
“For as awareness is so is God consciousness.”
http://www.strategicpublishin... (currently not active)
The Mommy Writings Series
Mommy, would you like a sandwich?
Book 1
Nope. It's simply that the U.S. dollar in your personal pocket is WORTH more than 75% less.
Don't mix up "price" (in Federal Reserve System-debauched "dollars") with VALUE.
Adjusting for currency degradation imposed upon us by those sons of bitches in the District of Columbia, you'll find that the real cost of your beloved Chunky bars is LOWER than it was when the product was being distributed by Wrigley (Nestlé only acquired the product in 1984).
Efficiencies of production and transportation do count for something, even in the face of the hundreds of thousands of obstructions and impairments imposed by the hateful bastards who masquerade as a "government" in our republic.
I agree, it's this administrations fault.
TV commercials to the contrary, there is a DEFINITE taste difference between confections and soft drinks made strictly according to the old recipes, and those made under the "picking winners" policy of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Friends of mine who live down along the border in Texas boast of picking up multiple cases of Coca-Cola bottled in Mexico, where the price supports dictated by the bought dogs in Mordor-on-the-Potomac don't have any effect, and these soft drink connoisseurs inform reliably that just about ANYBODY can do a blind taste-test to perceive the difference between Coke made with real sugar and the stuff we're stuck with in the rest of these United States.
As with everything else in your life, if it sucks horribly, you can't go wrong by blaming it on those motherless scheming bastards in Washington.
Talk about candy forces discussion of federal government sugar subsidies (including tariffs that screw the consumer who wants to buy cheap cane sugar from vendors in Brazil). This leads to further discussion about all the ways in which our "public servants" cripple and rob us to serve the special interests who have bought them like the whores they are.
Which is how it came to be that "the country is burning under this administration."
Y'see how that works?
Note that line from the novel (1951) and the play (1953) *The Teahouse of the August Moon* which goes:
"Pain make man think. Thought make man wise. Wisdom make life endurable."
THINK, goddam you.