On Wed, 25 Feb 2009 17:32:27 GMT, blake murphy
> wrote:

>On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 18:34:31 -0600, Damsel in dis Dress wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 17:09:54 -0500, "cybercat" >
>> wrote:
>>
>>>"Gloria P" > wrote in message
...
>>>> blake murphy wrote:
>>>>> On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 18:51:13 GMT, brooklyn1 wrote:
>>>>>> The only reason those bean mixes came to be is that at the warehouses
>>>>>> sacks tend to tear so various beans get all mixed together... they're
>>>>>> not going to pay people to separate beans and they're not about to throw
>>>>>> them away, so multi bean soup mix packages were born, and at nearly
>>>>>> double the price of virgin one of a kind beans.
>>>>>
>>>>> really, sheldon, where do you come up with crap like this? are you sure
>>>>> the bean mixes aren't dropped into warehouses by black helicopters in a
>>>>> plot to destroy our purity of essence?
>>>>>
>>>>> what a ****ing head case.
>>>>
>>>> Wasn't it Sheldon a few years ago who claimed that all store-bought
>>>> pre-ground packaged coffee was floor sweepings? At the time I laughed
>>>> and thought "That's one heckuva lot of spilled coffee on those store
>>>> shelves!"
>>>
>>>AND--all chicken leg quarters come from chickens with breast cancer.
>>
>> No kidding? He really said that? Is he on too many meds or not
>> enough?
>>
>> Carol, generally on the right amount of meds
>
>i don't reall that one, but it sounds pretty typical.
>
I think that it was an exaggeration.... otherwise, I agree with you.

IMO: multi-bean mixes were around a long time before they were
packaged commercially.


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