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_.-In rec.food.cooking, notbob wrote the following -._
> Well, there were at least a dozen size/brands of garlic salt w/ parsely, but
> only one small single size/brand of plain ol' garlic salt and it was
> considerably more expensive than the g/s w/pars. I smell a parsely filler
> scam.


Not a scam. Each of the companies spent millions of dollars to find
out that little bits of green parsley in the mix gives the product
more authenticity and thus is likely to sell more. Giving them an
edge in the struggle for survival.... or maybe I am confusing The
Origin of Species with Marketing 101.

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