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Skriven 2013-05-20 21:25:00 av JIM WELLER (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av MICHAEL LOO
Ärende: clamato
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 ML> Mott's Clamato / stale tomato juice cut with salt water

It has really gone downhill since it was first introduced. I used to
like it but won't buy it anymore. The current ingredient list ...
water, tomato concentrate, high fructose corn syrup, monosodium
glutamate, salt, citric acid, onion powder, celery seed, ascorbic
acid (to maintain color), garlic powder, dried clam broth, spices,
vinegar, natural flavors, red 40.

Also imagine the hideousness that is Dave's Mild Maritime Hot Sauce.
It tastes like one part Frank's Louisiana sauce and one part clamato
cocktail mixed and rebottled.

 ML> More Miss Vickie's chips

These used to be most excellent back when Vickie what's her name made
them, before she sold out to Pepsico's Frito Lay. She only made one
flavour and she only used three ingredients: potatoes, peanut oil
and salt. Frito Lay use some kind of vegetable oil other than
peanut. They are still pretty decent despite the use of lesser oils.

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Found:

An Open Letter to To the People at Mott's bY A.E. Sousa

I like your applesauce and I like your fruit juice, but may I ask
what you were trying prove when you designed Clamato? This tomato
and clam combo is a juice that is destined to induce vomiting.
Clamato has the acidic, metallic smell of a can of tomato sauce
being opened by a wizened, grizzled fisherman who reeks of drink and
his own urine. Clamato is the archenemy of taste buds everywhere!
When drinking it I am reminded of that time at the beach when I
accidentally swallowed a bit of the ocean, and I wasn't sure what
had gotten in my mouth but I knew it was dirty and that my mouth
would never be clean again. But with Clamato and its damned poison
tomatoes, it was worse than that. I knew that this time it would
take more than high-powered antibacterial soap to sanitize my soiled
mouth.

Mott's, your website claims that Clamato is the "undisputed
market-leader in the Seafood Blend category." Yes, yes it is. Bravo
for you. But the fact that there is no competition might also imply
that no one else has the bad taste (pun intended) to push such a
heinous combination of flavors on an unwanting public.

You try and try to convince us, Mott's, but even adding hard alcohol
cannot soften Clamato's dead-fish taste. Your "Bloody Caesar" is the
freak bastard child of a bloody mary and Manhattan clam chowder.
They keep him locked up in the basement, and with good reason. He
makes your vodka reek of clams! This bloody ne'er-do-well is my
mouth's evil nemesis. It is also Canada's number-one selling
cocktail. Need I say more?

Furthermore, you are now trying to hit up the underage demographic
with "Clamato Energia," a fishy energy drink. Yes, I see your
thought process. Because when I've been working up a sweat, there's
nothing more refreshing than cold fish in my mouth!

Please discontinue this wretched line and put the tomatoes' misery
to an end. Seriously, think of the tomatoes.
 
YK Jim    

... Wisdom is not putting tomatoes in fruit salad.

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