"Miguel Cruz" wrote in message
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    > Charles Hobbs wrote:
    > > Also, DVD's have a "zone" feature
    > That's a bug, not a feature.

A "feature" is a "bug" after it has seen the marketing department.

Seriously, the zone feature is highly desired by the copyright owners. It
can be overcome of many US-market DVD players by the proper combination of
button-presses. Try Google.

In article , [email protected]
(EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)) wrote:

    > Including the "black peppered" roasted cashew nuts I just bought at
    > Trader Joe's - not "salted", just "peppered", which complements the nuts
    > rather nicely.

Sounds good. Peppered crisps (potato chips) are so much nicer than salted,
too.

In article , [email protected]
(EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)) wrote:

    >
    >
    > [email protected] wrote:

    > > Another thing to consider is that Hollywood movies are generally
    > > released
    > > in the US before -- sometimes quite a while before -- the UK. So
    > > there may
    > > be merchandise for whatever-the-next-big-kids'/teens'-movies-are
    > > available
    > > in the US that would give them a head start on their contemporaries.
    >
    > But unless the host has a VCR/DVD machine that plays both PAL and NTSC
    > formats, they'd be of no use!

I meant associated merchandise, not the movies themselves -- posters,
sticker books, figurines, all that stuff.

In article , [email protected]
(Marie Lewis) wrote:

    > In article , [email protected]
    > writes
    > >In article ,
    > [email protected]
    > >(Marie Lewis) wrote:
    > >
    > >> In article , Miguel Cruz
    > >> writes
    > >> >Do you have Caramelts? Chicken Magic? Those little Golden Cluster
    > >> Pops? Jars
    > >> >of Boston Creme? Sweetsnaps?
    > >>
    > >>
    > >> No, thank goodness. They sound revolting!
    > >
    > >They sound to me like melted caramel, something with chicken, something
    > >undefinable, something creamy and something sweet and brittle. It's a
    > bit
    > >of a leap from brand names to "revolting".
    >
    >
    >
    > Nevertheless, to me they sound revolting. Obviously you have different
    > tastes, but you cannot say what mine are.

Of course not, but I think you are possibly being irrational (not that any
of us are immune from irrationality now and again). To take the most
extreme example, how can you tell from Miguel's imaginary brand name
"Boston Creme" what the product is? Would it sound less revolting if it
were called "Toulouse Creme"?

(Okay, maybe you don't like anything creamy. Or caramelly. Or chickeny.
Or sweet.)

"EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)" wrote:

    > But unless the host has a VCR/DVD machine that plays both PAL and NTSC
    > formats, they'd be of no use! (A factor I considered, in buying a
    > "code-free, region-free" DVD player with a built-in NTSC/PAL
    > converter.) I'm not a movie fan, but there are a lot more opera videos
    > available in Europe than in the U.S., only they're all PAL (or SECAM, if
    > produced for French viewers). I still have to get any tapes converted
    > to play on my VCR, but everything new (and many reissues) are on DVD, so
    > I can buy them from anywhere I like (I think most French issues come on
    > both PAL and SECAM).
That seems to be less of a problem in the UK, than in the US. Most VCRs
I've seen in Britain, will play US tapes, while most US VCRs will NOT play
UK tapes.

congokid wrote:

    > We've also got Pot Noodle. Someone once gave me the recipe for Pot
    > Noodle sandwiches.

OK, I can believe someone eating those ... but needing a recipe to make
them?????



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wrote:

    > In article , [email protected]
    > (EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)) wrote:
    > > Including the "black peppered" roasted cashew nuts I just bought at
    > > Trader Joe's - not "salted", just "peppered", which complements the nuts
    > > rather nicely.
    > Sounds good. Peppered crisps (potato chips) are so much nicer than salted,
    > too.


I wish we had those hedgehog - flavoured crisps over here in the States.....

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In article , Tim Vanhoof
writes
    >congokid wrote:
    >> We've also got Pot Noodle. Someone once gave me the recipe for Pot
    >> Noodle sandwiches.
    >OK, I can believe someone eating those ... but needing a recipe to make
    >them?????

It's very important to have the correct, thin white bread and non-butter
spread, I believe. Also, the quantity of water used to reconstitute the
noodles needs to be finely calibrated to avoid the filling slopping out
of the bread.

Perhaps Delia should include it in her next book?

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[email protected] wrote:
    :>
    :> I'm feeling nauseated only reading those names.
    :>
    : Well, that, I'm afraid, is at best over-sensitivity and at worst prejudice
    : in the true sense of the word. They may well be horrible, but how can you
    : possibly judge a food by its name?

What if it's called Irn-Bru?

Ed Dente wrote:
    > [email protected] wrote:
    >>> I'm feeling nauseated only reading those names.
    >>
    >> Well, that, I'm afraid, is at best over-sensitivity and at worst
    >> prejudice in the true sense of the word. They may well be horrible, but
    >> how can you possibly judge a food by its name?
    > What if it's called Irn-Bru?

In that case the color will serve.

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[email protected] wrote:

    : I dunno, Caramelts sound quite nice. While we're playing at
    : brand associations....Sweetsnaps: a slightly junky, chemical-filled
    : version of ginger snaps or brandy snaps. Golden Cluster Pops: a popcorny
    : breakfast cereal? Boston Creme: just like the stuff in Cadbury's Creme
    : Eggs, of course, but maybe coffee or mocha-flavoured. Chicken Magic:
    : frightening.

Are these made by Sunshine Desserts? I know they're not frozen novelties, but they may
as well have been named by the company.
Ed

Marie Lewis wrote:

    > In article ,
    > "EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)" writes
    > >I think you ladies are over-reacting! (How do you feel about most candy
    > >produced for children?)
    > Revolted.

Think of the children who think otherwise. This is an example of transference
of experiences/knowledge NOT working.

Ahh.... the challenges of parenthood ;-)

Miguel Cruz wrote:

    > Magda wrote:
    > > [email protected] arranged some electrons like this :
    > >> [email protected] (Marie Lewis) wrote:
    > >>> Miguel Cruz writes
    > >>>> Do you have Caramelts? Chicken Magic? Those little Golden Cluster
Pops?
    > >>>> Jars of Boston Creme? Sweetsnaps?
    > >>>
    > >>> No, thank goodness. They sound revolting!
    > >>
    > >> They sound to me like melted caramel, something with chicken, something
    > >> undefinable, something creamy and something sweet and brittle. It's a
bit
    > >> of a leap from brand names to "revolting".
    > >
    > > I'm feeling nauseated only reading those names.
    > I must confess I invented the names. I was waiting to see whether anyone
    > would claim to have them.


I was wondering -- I even googled "Chicken Magic" ;---)

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In article , Ken Pisichko
writes
    >Think of the children who think otherwise. This is an example of transference
    >of experiences/knowledge NOT working.


I cannot see why children should

a. be given revolting "candies2 as you so quaintly call them

or

b. be given all they ask for.
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Miguel Cruz wrote:
    > Ed Dente wrote:

    >>What if it's called Irn-Bru?
    >
    >
    > In that case the color will serve.

It is kind of "rust-colored", right? :-)