Thread: Manwich Commercial

On Oct 29, 9:27*pm, Sqwertz <swe...@cluemail.compost> wrote:
> It goes something like this:
>
> A bunch of kids are up on stage dressed up as vegetables
> (supposedly). *One kid, dressed as an ear of corn, turns to a little
> girl dressed up as a Sloppy Joe and says "You're supposed to dress
> up as a VEGETABLE!".
>
> The girl says, "I AM a full serving of vegetables". *This cues the
> announcer who explains that a prepared serving of Manwich contains a
> full USRDA serving of vegetables while showing a family chowing down
> on Sloppy Joes.
>
> Then the scene changes back to the Manwich girl and the ear of corn,
> She says, "And look at you, you're dressed up as a grain, not a
> vegetable!"
>
> Now for the irony:
>
> I hate to break it to you, makers of Manwich, but tomato paste and
> tomato puree(*) are not vegetables either. *Tomatoes are fruits.
> You need a new marketing team.
>
> Ta-DAAAAAA *dump.
>
> -sw
>
> (*) Manwich ingredients: Tomato Puree , Water , Tomato Paste , High
> Fructose Corn Syrup , Corn Syrup , Salt, Less than 2% of.....

Welcome to the new age of eating. yecccch......

"Sqwertz" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]..
> It goes something like this:
>
> A bunch of kids are up on stage dressed up as vegetables
> (supposedly). One kid, dressed as an ear of corn, turns to a little
> girl dressed up as a Sloppy Joe and says "You're supposed to dress
> up as a VEGETABLE!".
>
> The girl says, "I AM a full serving of vegetables". This cues the
> announcer who explains that a prepared serving of Manwich contains a
> full USRDA serving of vegetables while showing a family chowing down
> on Sloppy Joes.
>
> Then the scene changes back to the Manwich girl and the ear of corn,
> She says, "And look at you, you're dressed up as a grain, not a
> vegetable!"
>
> Now for the irony:
>
> I hate to break it to you, makers of Manwich, but tomato paste and
> tomato puree(*) are not vegetables either. Tomatoes are fruits.
> You need a new marketing team.
>
> Ta-DAAAAAA dump.
>
> -sw
>
> (*) Manwich ingredients: Tomato Puree , Water , Tomato Paste , High
> Fructose Corn Syrup , Corn Syrup , Salt, Less than 2% of.....



Commercials about Chef Boyardee canned [whatever] tout the same thing:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeDjuKYzX8w

What a way to teach kids NOT to eat vegetables! Anything green and fresh
must be just awful. You can get it in this can of mushy pasta in tomato
sauce instead! I'm not buying it (literally).

Jill

On Fri, 30 Oct 2009 04:43:25 -0400, "jmcquown" <[email protected]> wrote:

-->"Sqwertz" <[email protected]> wrote in message
-->news:[email protected]..
-->> It goes something like this:
-->>
-->> A bunch of kids are up on stage dressed up as vegetables
-->> (supposedly). One kid, dressed as an ear of corn, turns to a little
-->> girl dressed up as a Sloppy Joe and says "You're supposed to dress
-->> up as a VEGETABLE!".
-->>
-->> The girl says, "I AM a full serving of vegetables". This cues the
-->> announcer who explains that a prepared serving of Manwich contains a
-->> full USRDA serving of vegetables while showing a family chowing down
-->> on Sloppy Joes.
-->>
-->> Then the scene changes back to the Manwich girl and the ear of corn,
-->> She says, "And look at you, you're dressed up as a grain, not a
-->> vegetable!"
-->>
-->> Now for the irony:
-->>
-->> I hate to break it to you, makers of Manwich, but tomato paste and
-->> tomato puree(*) are not vegetables either. Tomatoes are fruits.
-->> You need a new marketing team.
-->>
-->> Ta-DAAAAAA dump.
-->>
-->> -sw
-->>
-->> (*) Manwich ingredients: Tomato Puree , Water , Tomato Paste , High
-->> Fructose Corn Syrup , Corn Syrup , Salt, Less than 2% of.....
-->
-->
-->
-->Commercials about Chef Boyardee canned [whatever] tout the same thing:
-->
-->http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeDjuKYzX8w
-->
-->What a way to teach kids NOT to eat vegetables! Anything green and fresh
-->must be just awful. You can get it in this can of mushy pasta in tomato
-->sauce instead! I'm not buying it (literally).
-->
-->Jill

As a kid I ate this stuff, but not often as we had a huge garden out back. Now
I may enjoy a bowl of spaghetti O's with a few slices of toast on a rainy day
(comfort food from my childhood). With three boys (eating machines) and my
darling sister, my parents had to stretch the dollar some how.

I do keep one can on hand just for emergency's

On Thu, 29 Oct 2009 21:56:53 -0700 (PDT), poop on toast
<[email protected]> wrote:

>On Oct 29, 9:27*pm, Sqwertz <swe...@cluemail.compost> wrote:
>> It goes something like this:
>>
>>
>> I hate to break it to you, makers of Manwich, but tomato paste and
>> tomato puree(*) are not vegetables either. *Tomatoes are fruits.
>> You need a new marketing team.
>>
>> Ta-DAAAAAA *dump.
>>
>> -sw
>>
>> (*) Manwich ingredients: Tomato Puree , Water , Tomato Paste , High
>> Fructose Corn Syrup , Corn Syrup , Salt, Less than 2% of.....
>
>Welcome to the new age of eating. yecccch......

Thank you Ronald Regan.

--
I love cooking with wine.
Sometimes I even put it in the food.

On 2009-10-30, SCP <[email protected]> wrote:

> I do keep one can on hand just for emergency's

Me, too.

I loved it in grade school and I still love it. I suspect my 50s K-6
school used essentially the same Hunt's canned product in their
cafeteria, cuz it tastes identical, too me.

Looking out the my icy window at yesterday's heavy snowfall being
blown into near blizzard conditions by 30mph winds, I can't help but
fondly recall those gray Winter days in our little Quonset hut
cafeteria, all warm and cheery with hot food lovingly laddled out onto
square sectioned trays by a smiling matron who actually cooked food in
real pots on real stoves. I never minded bag lunches, which had a
certain red rubber ball aged charm, in the summer, but I was glad mom
could afford the high luxury of a 25 cent hot lunch and a 5 cent milk
in the dead of Winter and I could enjoy that steaming lucious brown
mass on its own snow white burger bun. (I'm gettin' all misty)

nb

Sqwertz wrote:

> I hate to break it to you, makers of Manwich, but tomato paste and
> tomato puree(*) are not vegetables either. Tomatoes are fruits.
> You need a new marketing team.

Let me know the next time you get a fruit basket and it contains
tomatoes.

nancy

On 30-Oct-2009, sf <[email protected]> wrote:

> >> I hate to break it to you, makers of Manwich, but tomato paste and
> >> tomato puree(*) are not vegetables either. *Tomatoes are fruits.
> >> You need a new marketing team.
> >>
> >> Ta-DAAAAAA *dump.
> >>
> >> -sw
> >>
> >> (*) Manwich ingredients: Tomato Puree , Water , Tomato Paste , High
> >> Fructose Corn Syrup , Corn Syrup , Salt, Less than 2% of.....
> >
> >Welcome to the new age of eating. yecccch......
>
> Thank you Ronald Regan.
>
> --

Though Reagan's administration counted ketchup as a vegetable serving, the
Supreme Court declared the tomato as a vegetable nearly 100 years earlier.
Regardless of botanical science, the Supreme Courted declared the tomato to
be a vegetable in order to protect US tomato farmers from imorts; there was
a tax on imported vegetables but not fruit.
--
Change Cujo to Juno in email address.

On Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:56:17 -0400, "Nancy Young"
<[email protected]> wrote:

>Sqwertz wrote:
>
>> I hate to break it to you, makers of Manwich, but tomato paste and
>> tomato puree(*) are not vegetables either. Tomatoes are fruits.
>> You need a new marketing team.
>
>Let me know the next time you get a fruit basket and it contains
>tomatoes.
>
>nancy

Botanically tomato is fruit but all plants are vegetable... beans are
botanically fruit but are refered to as vegetable. Fruit is a sub
catagory of vegetable.

On Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:03:23 GMT, l, not -l wrote:

> Though Reagan's administration counted ketchup as a vegetable serving, the
> Supreme Court declared the tomato as a vegetable nearly 100 years earlier.

Which brings up another question (and Ob:ManWhich) At what stage of
transsexualism is a former man [woman] legally allowed to use a
women's [men's] public restroom?

-sw

On Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:35:44 -0800, Mark Thorson wrote:

> Sqwertz wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:03:23 GMT, l, not -l wrote:
>>
>>> Though Reagan's administration counted ketchup as a vegetable serving, the
>>> Supreme Court declared the tomato as a vegetable nearly 100 years earlier.
>>
>> Which brings up another question (and Ob:ManWhich) At what stage of
>> transsexualism is a former man [woman] legally allowed to use a
>> women's [men's] public restroom?
>
> Are we speaking about California or Texas?

Oh, lets say... Modesto, California and Austin, Texas.

Heh.

Point was that legally they can declare one thing to be something ti
isn't, but it's really still just the original thing.

-sw

In article <[email protected]>,
Sqwertz <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:03:23 GMT, l, not -l wrote:
>
> > Though Reagan's administration counted ketchup as a vegetable serving, the
> > Supreme Court declared the tomato as a vegetable nearly 100 years earlier.
>
> Which brings up another question (and Ob:ManWhich) At what stage of
> transsexualism is a former man [woman] legally allowed to use a
> women's [men's] public restroom?

And then there's the age thing. I felt fine bringing my daughter into a
men's restroom when she was two, even though she wasn't a man (or a
boy). My office partner said the women at her health club objected when
mothers brought their sons into the women's locker room. I believe they
set the cutoff at eight years old.

--
Dan Abel
Petaluma, California USA
[email protected]

On Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:11:03 -0700, Dan Abel wrote:

> In article <[email protected]>,
> Sqwertz <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Which brings up another question (and Ob:ManWhich) At what stage of
>> transsexualism is a former man [woman] legally allowed to use a
>> women's [men's] public restroom?
>
> And then there's the age thing. I felt fine bringing my daughter into a
> men's restroom when she was two, even though she wasn't a man (or a
> boy). My office partner said the women at her health club objected when
> mothers brought their sons into the women's locker room. I believe they
> set the cutoff at eight years old.

A transsexual 7-year old?

They sure start them early these days. Kinda makes lactose
intolerance and peanut allergies seem insignificant, eh?

-sw

In article <hcerif$5ki$[email protected]>,
"l, not -l" <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 30-Oct-2009, sf <[email protected]> wrote:

> > Thank you Ronald Regan.

Last I read, Ronald Reagan had nothing to do with it, and wasn't even
informed of it beforehand.


> Though Reagan's administration counted ketchup as a vegetable serving

In my reading, ketchup was never counted as a vegetable. There was a
proposal that ketchup be counted for subsidized school lunches, but it
was shot down very early on. The problem was that, in order to qualify
for the subsidy, students had to be given vegetables. This cost a lot
of money, both to buy the vegetables and also to pay the garbage
company, since they all went in the garbage.

One proposal was to give the students a choice of whether to take the
vegetables.

--
Dan Abel
Petaluma, California USA
[email protected]

Sqwertz wrote:
>
> On Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:03:23 GMT, l, not -l wrote:
>
> > Though Reagan's administration counted ketchup as a vegetable serving, the
> > Supreme Court declared the tomato as a vegetable nearly 100 years earlier.
>
> Which brings up another question (and Ob:ManWhich) At what stage of
> transsexualism is a former man [woman] legally allowed to use a
> women's [men's] public restroom?

Are we speaking about California or Texas?

On 30-Oct-2009, Dan Abel <[email protected]> wrote:

> > Which brings up another question (and Ob:ManWhich) At what stage of
> > transsexualism is a former man [woman] legally allowed to use a
> > women's [men's] public restroom?
>
> And then there's the age thing. I felt fine bringing my daughter into a
> men's restroom when she was two, even though she wasn't a man (or a
> boy). My office partner said the women at her health club objected when
> mothers brought their sons into the women's locker room. I believe they
> set the cutoff at eight years old.

In the context of what you are replying to, your choice of words in the last
sentence is frightening. 8-)
--
Change Cujo to Juno in email address.

On Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:06:11 -0500, Sqwertz <[email protected]> wrote:

-->On Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:03:23 GMT, l, not -l wrote:
-->
-->> Though Reagan's administration counted ketchup as a vegetable serving, the
-->> Supreme Court declared the tomato as a vegetable nearly 100 years earlier.
-->
-->Which brings up another question (and Ob:ManWhich) At what stage of
-->transsexualism is a former man [woman] legally allowed to use a
-->women's [men's] public restroom?
-->
-->-sw


How far along are you in the process?

On Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:11:03 -0700, Dan Abel <[email protected]> wrote:

-->In article <[email protected]>,
--> Sqwertz <[email protected]> wrote:
-->
-->> On Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:03:23 GMT, l, not -l wrote:
-->>
-->> > Though Reagan's administration counted ketchup as a vegetable serving,
the
-->> > Supreme Court declared the tomato as a vegetable nearly 100 years
earlier.
-->>
-->> Which brings up another question (and Ob:ManWhich) At what stage of
-->> transsexualism is a former man [woman] legally allowed to use a
-->> women's [men's] public restroom?
-->
-->And then there's the age thing. I felt fine bringing my daughter into a
-->men's restroom when she was two, even though she wasn't a man (or a
-->boy). My office partner said the women at her health club objected when
-->mothers brought their sons into the women's locker room. I believe they
-->set the cutoff at eight years old.


it's normally six

On Oct 29, 10:27*pm, Sqwertz <swe...@cluemail.compost> wrote:

> Now for the irony:
>
> I hate to break it to you, makers of Manwich, but tomato paste and
> tomato puree(*) are not vegetables either. *Tomatoes are fruits.
> You need a new marketing team.
>
> Ta-DAAAAAA *dump.
>
> -sw
>
> (*) Manwich ingredients: Tomato Puree , Water , Tomato Paste , High
> Fructose Corn Syrup , Corn Syrup , Salt, Less than 2% of.....

News for you. Fruits and vegetables are the same, as far as the food
pyramid goes.
The only reason tomatoes are fruits is because they are the part of
the plant that contains the seeds.
Botanically, fruits are vegetation. All fruits are vegetables but not
all vegetables are fruits. Some are leaves, some are stems, some are
roots.

On Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:11:03 -0700, Dan Abel <[email protected]> wrote:

>In article <[email protected]>,
> Sqwertz <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:03:23 GMT, l, not -l wrote:
>>
>> > Though Reagan's administration counted ketchup as a vegetable serving, the
>> > Supreme Court declared the tomato as a vegetable nearly 100 years earlier.
>>
>> Which brings up another question (and Ob:ManWhich) At what stage of
>> transsexualism is a former man [woman] legally allowed to use a
>> women's [men's] public restroom?
>
>And then there's the age thing. I felt fine bringing my daughter into a
>men's restroom when she was two, even though she wasn't a man (or a
>boy). My office partner said the women at her health club objected when
>mothers brought their sons into the women's locker room. I believe they
>set the cutoff at eight years old.

And rightly so... eight is much too old.

I'm pretty sure that most two year old girls don't notice men's things
but I bet plenty do, even at 1 1/2, and there are plenty of grown male
deviants who will be ogling 2 year old girls, and younger. And I can
tell you from personal experience that 4 year old boys definitely
notice grown female's boobs... and by 8 they do lot's more than just
notice.