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General Category => Miscellaneous => Topic started by: baccala8872 on March 24, 2005, 06:15:09 AM

Title: Yyuuuuuucccccckkkkkkk!!!!!!!
Post by: baccala8872 on March 24, 2005, 06:15:09 AM

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=573&e=1&u=/nm/odd_finger_dc

This is just atrocious!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Anyone else read this?????!!!!!!??????
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Title: Re: Yyuuuuuucccccckkkkkkk!!!!!!!
Post by: KDawg77 on March 24, 2005, 02:17:43 PM

And to think I had a coworker go to Wendy's today and mentioned the chili prior to even knowing this. Ger-er-roooooooooooooooooooooooooooooss!

Title: Re: Yyuuuuuucccccckkkkkkk!!!!!!!
Post by: Ragnar on March 24, 2005, 02:18:09 PM

Nothing unusual here.  I used to work summers in a cannery (peas, corn mostly).  At least once every summer we would have to shut down and start opening cans looking for some lady's finger.  Usually during corn season - the device that cut the corn off the cob looked like a giant pencil sharpener and could take off fingers very easily.  Only rarely did we find what we were looking for.

Did you know that, by law, canneries are allowed a certain number of rats per thousand cans?  That sort of thing?
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Title: Re: Yyuuuuuucccccckkkkkkk!!!!!!!
Post by: baccala8872 on March 24, 2005, 02:20:15 PM

Actually Rags, I work in the pharmaceutical industry and we have to be familiar with food regulations as well.

If I remember correctly, the US gov't can GUARANTEE you that no more than 0.004% of your food has rat feces in it and no more than 0.006% of your fresh produce will have insect parts in it.

Comforting, ain't it?
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Title: Re: Yyuuuuuucccccckkkkkkk!!!!!!!
Post by: DanH78 on March 24, 2005, 02:27:13 PM

Just go read The Jungle by Upton Sinclair.  Some very interesting depictions of the meat packing industry in the early 1900's
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Title: Re: Yyuuuuuucccccckkkkkkk!!!!!!!
Post by: KDawg77 on March 24, 2005, 02:29:14 PM

The funny thing about "The Jungle" is while it does talk about turn of the century meat packing, it's really all a metaphor for supporting socialism. The US and especially Teddy Roosevelt missed the point, but did lead the cleaning up of the industry.

Title: Re: Yyuuuuuucccccckkkkkkk!!!!!!!
Post by: Ragnar on March 24, 2005, 03:25:49 PM

Question:  Is the guy who opens a can of corn only to find a finger entitled to compensation if there is a wedding ring on the finger?
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"To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace."  (Tacitus)

Title: Re: Yyuuuuuucccccckkkkkkk!!!!!!!
Post by: T Brockette on March 24, 2005, 03:32:58 PM

Check out a movie that I am sure most of you are too young to know.
" Soilant Green " with Charleston Heston and Edward G Robinson.
Futuristic plot where people are used as recycled food. Yummy!

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Title: Re: Yyuuuuuucccccckkkkkkk!!!!!!!
Post by: RSalas on March 24, 2005, 03:39:39 PM

I think of "Soylent Green" every time I hear Beethoven's "Pastorale..."

Remember, Tuesday is Soylent Green day.
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