On 12/31/2014 4:00 PM, jinx the minx wrote:
> jmcquown > wrote:
>> On 12/31/2014 2:54 AM, Julie Bove wrote:
>>> Remember how you said that my Pik Nik onions were not touted as snacks?
>>> Well... Just lookie what I found! And from the link that *you*
>>> provided, too!
>>>
>>> Read what it says there. On the Pik Nik can. You have have to use the
>>> arrows on the right or left to find it. "Great for casseroles and
>>> snacks". Yep. Says it right there on the pretty green can.
>>
>> Gee, the marketing department couldn't *possibly* want to try to sell
>> more deep fried onions. Didn't work out as a snack for you, did it?
>>
>> Jill
>
> Like her fish tacos from frozen fish sticks experiment. "The commercial
> said they were good!" So gullible.
>
That's the entire point of food commercials: to sell the product with a
"serving suggestion". Same thing with photos on packaged food.

We're supposed to believe people buy canned fried onions to *snack on*.
It must be true! It says so right there on the can!

How many of you, when you think of a "snack", think about opening a can
of deep fried onions?

Jill