On Sun, 11 Mar 2007 10:29:58 -0400, "James Silverton"
<not.jim.silverton.at.comcast.not> wrote:

> Stan wrote on Sun, 11 Mar 2007 09:33:12 -0400:
>
> ??>>>>
> ??>>>> How do you suppose Heinz comes up with all those 57+
> ??>>>> varieties?
> ??>>>>
>
> As I recall reading, the "57 varieties" comes from the early
>days of the Heinz company and was chosen because Mr. Heinz
>thought it sounded good not because it bore any real
>relationship to the actual number :-) It seems a good number;
>remember "The Manchurian Candidate", where over breakfast it was
>decided after contemplating the ketchup bottle that there were
>57 communists in the State Depatment.
>
>James Silverton
>Potomac, Maryland
>

what a great flick. (i refer, of course, to the original. i could
not be bothered to see the remake.)

office staff meetings always reminded me of the 'garden lecture'
scenes.

your pal,
raymond