-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 03/30/07 13:59, John Hasler wrote: > Ron Johnson writes: >> We buy the cheapest *whole* wheat bread at the local store that doesn't >> taste like crumbly cardboard. > > See? You're picky.
Taste pickiness != snob pickiness. (Although snobs like to pretend it is.) > Cathy Consumer buys the cheapest white bread, full > stop. Not true unless you're on a very tight budget. Ask your wife whether she'd spend an extra 30 cents on bread from a brand she trusts. >> Look at the ingredients list of white bread and whole wheat bread. > > Just did (though we don't have any cheap generic white bread: the closest I > can come is some "English muffin" bread). I see no differences that would > account for a significant difference in price, especially considering that > ingredient costs are not going to come to a large fraction of the price. Not being that far up the food industry, I can't make that determination. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGDWkXS9HxQb37XmcRAv8VAKCkrXMN1fL9QFcDHNVPNDcUl/DRSwCfcqlk h9raZ/E3Wg8sUvfLjJF2rsQ= =a5Yt -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
