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|    J.Pascal to William Vetter    |
|    Re: Does this click?    |
|    09 Sep 14 13:22:35    |
      From: julie@pascal.org              On Tuesday, September 9, 2014 1:59:22 PM UTC-6, William Vetter wrote:       > On Tuesday, September 9, 2014 6:01:02 AM UTC-4, Jymesion wrote:       >       >       >       > > "No, no, this is real. There's a factory and everything. They import       >       > >       >       > > canned vegetables from China, peel off the labels, slap on new ones,       >       > >       >       > > and ship nationwide. I'm scheduled to go out there next month for the       >       > >       >       > > groundbreaking of a new building."       >       > >       >       > Maybe you should go to an Oriental grocery and see how expensive the canned       vegetables and condiments are. Really, if you took the labels off, you'd       decrease the value by 1/4th.              The labels have to comply to US laws on what has to be on them. Sometimes       there's just a sticker added. I always figured that they put those labels on       originally but it makes sense that at least some product would get relabeled       here.              -Julie              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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