"jmcquown" > wrote in message
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> 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?

Some people can't stand the thought of peanut butter on celery but I love
it.

There are all sorts of things that people eat as snacks that I don't like.
Raisins, Cheetos, assorted pizza things...