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Skriven 2014-08-27 20:24:41 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
  Kommentar till text 16226 av MICHAEL LOO (1:123/140)
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Hi Michael,

 ML> Almost all these products are made in the same couple
 ML> factories, one in I think New Jersey and the other in
 ML> Allegan, Michigan
 RH> I don't really look to see where things like that are made.

 ML> Although it might be instructive to do so once in a
 ML> while. For me it's mostly curiosity.

It was more so while we were in Germany and HI as we were likely to get
things from all over Europe with the former, Asia, the latter. Also,
remember when Coke was bottled all over the States and labeled with the
name of the city it was bottled in? Of course 2 cities were San
Can-cisco and San Can-tonio. (G)


 ML>   Generally
 RH> I'll buy either the store or name brand, depending on which is the
 RH> better buy when I'm buying.

 ML> Fair enough - in many cases they're the exact same
 ML> thing from the same production line, even.

Like pineapple--only thing different between Dole, Libby's and Del Monte
is the label on the outside.

 ML>  Surprisingly, there are times the name
 RH> brand is on enough of a sale that it beats the store brand in price.

 ML> The costs aren't all that different, and if the name
 ML> brand's sales are sagging, corporate can and will order
 ML> price rollbacks to stimulate them back to desired levels.

Since we've switched to a lot of milk alternatives, we don't go thru the
Lact-aid stuff as fast. I buy maybe a couple of boxes per year instead
of one per month.


 ML> Though I appreciate dairy foods in moderation, in most
 ML> parts of the world nondairy ones outnumber the dairy
 ML> ones!
 RH> I think we, as a nation, tend to consume more dairy than most of the
 RH> world.

 ML> Europeans, especially north Europeans, depend on dairy
 ML> more than Asians and Africans; and most of the original
 ML> Western settlers were north Europeans, with the 19th
 ML> and 20th century waves more Mediterranean, but they too
 ML> consumed a lot of milk products.

And Americans consume more than Europeans.


 ML>  The dairy industry has pushed, for years, the benefits (?) of
 RH> drinking a couple of glasses of milk a day. Do you see that in any
 RH> other country? I quit drinking milk many years ago but still eat a good
 RH> amount of cheese, yogurt, ice cream, etc. (G)

 ML> That too, but in Europe it's pretty much taken for granted.
 ML> In Asia, the dairy flogging I've seen has been mostly for
 ML> sweet products, ice cream and such. Of course, ft the
 ML> caption underneath said "builds strong teeth and bones" in
 ML> Korean or Japanese, I wouldn't catch that.

Ice cream is a world wide favorite treat. (G)

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Ruth
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