FBC adds 6000 OZ items

[Big Booger]

[Charles]

FYI, Weetabix is made in Canada, and Kellogg's Nutrigrain is made in the US of A.

[Caustic Saint]

Uh-oh. I think the Gomis might be in trouble....

[GomiGirl]

MMMM cherry ripes. But they only deliver once a month.

[Big Booger]

FYI, Weetabix is made in Canada, and Kellogg's Nutrigrain is made in the US of A.

Brilliant. Do you work for Proctor & Gamble?

[Big Booger]

MMMM cherry ripes. But they only deliver once a month.

Get 200 at a time?

[Caustic Saint]

MMMM cherry ripes. But they only deliver once a month.

Get 200 at a time?

And after the first week, then what?!?

(ducks)

[gomichild]

oh bloody hell there goes the diet...

[Charles]

FYI, Weetabix is made in Canada, and Kellogg's Nutrigrain is made in the US of A.

Brilliant. Do you work for Proctor & Gamble?

No, I just happen to live about 15 miles from the city where about 75% of the entire world's supply of cereal is manufactured. I guarantee you've never smelled anything like it in your life.

[cliffy]

FYI, Weetabix is made in Canada, and Kellogg's Nutrigrain is made in the US of A.

Brilliant. Do you work for Proctor & Gamble?

No, I just happen to live about 15 miles from the city where about 75% of the entire world's supply of cereal is manufactured. I guarantee you've never smelled anything like it in your life.

So what do they do with all the grain they truck into Yackandandah In Victoria, Australia?

[Charles]

So what do they do with all the grain they truck into Yackandandah In Victoria, Australia?

You use trucks? How quaint. Around here grain ships in railroad cars by the thousands.

I decided to look up Yack and Andah on the web. It appears that the grain is processed into fine Australian wine.

[cliffy]

So what do they do with all the grain they truck into Yackandandah In Victoria, Australia?

You use trucks? How quaint. Around here grain ships in railroad cars by the thousands.

I decided to look up Yack and Andah on the web. It appears that the grain is processed into fine Australian wine.

Rail Cars you send Passengers in, Rail Trucks for Freight, semantics (sp) , but grain makes spirits or beer not wine. Yes they make a lot of good wine in that region, and Ports and Tokays as well as mustards, BUT no distilling take place legaly (Grappa is endemic but still not legal) Yes the manufacturing level is tiny in comparison but it still exists. Yackandandah,one word, is near Etamoogah just outside Albury/Woodonga for those not already comatose :P .

[Charles]

You ozzies seem to have a problem understanding the King's English.

Rail truck:


Rail truck:


Rail car:


Fine Australian Wine:


Premium Australian Estate Wine:

[eneman]

Stop Charles you`re hurting me. Such an enquiring mind. You are quite the seeker of truth -yours anyway. Mere regional differences. Which is to say your regiion is fucked and ours isn`t.

I`ll take 20 BIG jars of vegemite please and a homebrew kit.

[Charles]

Stop Charles you`re hurting me. Such an enquiring mind. You are quite the seeker of truth -yours anyway. Mere regional differences. Which is to say your regiion is fucked and ours isn`t.

There is a saying passing around in some of the heated political arguments on the net, it says, "everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but nobody is entitled to their own facts."

If I tell you Weetabix is made in Canada, I assure you that it is a fact, because I eat the stuff every day and I can read the label:



If I tell you that you'd be a fool to buy stale cereal shipped from Canada to England to Australia to Japan, then that would be an opinion.

If I tell you the world's largest cereal plant is a mere 15 miles from my house, and that 75% of the world's supply of cereal is processed in one of the 5 cereal plants near the railhead, that is a fact.

If I tell you that the entire civilized world calls those big things that deliver bulk goods via railroad "rail cars" then that is also a pretty easily established fact, just go Google on the phrase "rail truck" (include the quotes) and you won't find one single citation from anywhere in the world that uses the phrase "rail truck" to refer to railroad container shipping, you will only find it refers to truck-like vehicles that ride on rails, sometimes pulling rail cars; or occasionally it is used to refer to the suspension and axle subcomponent of a rail car. And that's a fact.

But if I tell you that Australians are the most illiterate, loathesome, argumentative, shit-for-brains, obstinate, descendants-of-convicts that are proud that their highest aspiration is to pass out drunk in a gutter, face down in a pool of their own vomit, then that is just an opinion.

[eneman]

I feel suitably chastised Charles. I shall whip myself with a cat-o-nine tails. Do you think they might sell those on the Aussie buyers club or shall I order one from Canada?
Perhaps you can do a quick search and find various brands etc. for me. There`s a good chap.

[Charles]

I feel suitably chastised Charles. I shall whip myself with a cat-o-nine tails. Do you think they might sell those on the Aussie buyers club or shall I order one from Canada?
Perhaps you can do a quick search and find various brands etc. for me. There`s a good chap.

Don't be ridiculous, all the best goods come from Japan. Try the row of shops next to the Akihabara eki Hibiya-sen exit, you can't miss it, there's always a matronly woman cop sitting in a folding chair out front, glaring at every man that passes by.

[kurohinge1]

You ozzies seem to have a problem understanding the King's English ... Weetabix is made in Canada ... because I eat the stuff every day and I can read the label ...

Some labels seem to be a little hard for you, though, as well as the product name in the original post :lol:

... Sanitarium Australia is owned and operated by Australians while Sanitarium New Zealand is owned and operated by New Zealanders. We do work together, however, to produce over 150 products and employ approximately 1700 people in our manufacturing and distribution sites throughout Australia and New Zealand ...

Did you forget to take your pills again, Charlie?

[Taro Toporific]

ACTUALLY Weetabix is AMERICAN! Yep, Britain's popular breakfast cereal, was swallowed up byUS venture capitalists for £642m.

After Typhoo, Branston and Rowntree Britain's favourite cereal is sold to Texas
---American venture capitalists pay £642m to secretive UK family firm to add Weetabix to list of iconic brands----Wednesday November 19, 2003 / The Guardian
...Although regarded as a traditional British company, the cereal itself was invented in Australia in the early 20th century, at around the same time that WK Kellogg was experimenting with wheat cereals in America.

Sir Richard's grandfather, Frank George, established the company in Britain in 1932, but does not have the rights to the product in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. In those countries, it is owned by a separate company - Weetbix, spelled without an "a". The wheat was originally also imported from Australia but prices movements in the 1970s forced the company to switch to local suppliers. "We changed from Australian to English wheat 25 years ago, but apart from that I can't think of any other changes to the product," said Sir Richard.

[Charles]

Some labels seem to be a little hard for you, though, as well as the product name in the original post

I stand corrected. I was merely applying Occam's Razor. I assumed it was merely another semi-literate ozzie misspelling one of the world's most famous brand names. How was I to know it was an ozzie company deliberately misspelling one of the world's most famous brand names, in an attempt to deceive buyers into accepting an inferior product?

[Taro Toporific]

I assumed it was merely another semi-literate ozzie misspelling one of the world's most famous brand names. How was I to know it was an ozzie company deliberately misspelling one of the world's most famous brand names, in an attempt to deceive buyers into accepting an inferior product?

There's a scam going on about the Ossie connection and Sir Richard's grandfather, Frank George who, "established the company in Britain in 1932, but does not have the rights to the product in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa."

It sounds like a Ozzie releative of the inventor Frank George spin-off his own brand. I bet the rest-of-the-story is very interesting. Like Charles, I always thought Weetabix was repackaged moose droppings from the Great North.

[Charles]

Like Charles, I always thought Weetabix was repackaged moose droppings from the Great North.

Well, let's apply Occam's Razor again, who do you believe, a notorious braggart like Richard Branston, or the label on the package? Remember the US has very strict food packaging laws, as I well know because I was doing typesetting when the new laws were enacted and I did a LOT of new food labels.

Anyway, around here, we take our cereal VERY seriously. The only reason I eat Weetabix is because I want something that doesn't taste like the cereal vapor in the local air.

[kurohinge1]

..."established the company in Britain in 1932, but does not have the rights to the product in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa."

..."everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but nobody is entitled to their own facts." ... I assumed it was merely another semi-literate ozzie misspelling one of the world's most famous brand names. [Charles' own facts ] How was I to know it was an ozzie company deliberately misspelling one of the world's most famous brand names, in an attempt to deceive buyers ...

The Sanitarium Heath Food Company ... has been practising its "Health is Wealth" maxim in New Zealand since 1898. Among its early imported products was Granose, a wheat flake biscuit marketed both as a breakfast cereal and an alternative to bread. But in the 1920s it faced competition when the Christchurch company Grain Products Ltd. introduced another flake biscuit, which it named Weet-Bix. When Sanitarium bought Grain Products in 1930, the Weet-Bix brand became its own.

Reading - failed
History - failed
What's next, Charlie?

I stand corrected. I was merely applying Occam's Razor ...

Surely applying Occam's Razor would result in all Aussie FG's placing Charles on "Ignore", but where's the fun in that?

[Charles]

Not being entitled to your own facts also means you are not entitled to edit several messages into one out-of-context lie. But then, nobody listens to anything ozzies say anyway

[cliffy]

Not being entitled to your own facts also means you are not entitled to edit several messages into one out-of-context lie. But then, nobody listens to anything ozzies say anyway

Give it up Charlie, You lost, Fell on your own Harsh sword of mis- interpretation and arrogance. A fact IS a fact not needing 'interpretation'.

[Lifer]

Somebody say something about FBC?

[Taro Toporific]

Somebody say something about FBC?

My impression is that the FBC has nasty Japanese prices and that I can ALWAYS buy cheaper at Costco or on sale at Japanese discount stores. Theflyingpig.com offers much lower prices. Theflyingpig.com certainly offers faster shipment and the FBC has long waits, However, Theflyingpig.com has no Weetabix or Weet-Bix).

Theflyingpig.com
Pace Medium Picante Sauce (plastic bottle)
Content: 1810g Price: 760

FBC
31183 Pace Picante Sauce - Medium Corner Dry 226 g 1 350

[Mulboyne]

Well, let's apply Occam's Razor again, who do you believe, a notorious braggart like Richard Branston, or the label on the package?

Richard Branson isn't involved in this story. The "Sir Richard" in Taro's article is Sir Richard George. The "Branston" (with a "t") mentioned is a brand name for pickles.

[Charles]

Well, let's apply Occam's Razor again, who do you believe, a notorious braggart like Richard Branston, or the label on the package?

Richard Branson isn't involved in this story. The "Sir Richard" in Taro's article is Sir Richard George. The "Branston" (with a "t") mentioned is a brand name for pickles.

Ah. Now that I have been fully informed about the details of Australian cereal manufacturers, I shall do everything possible to forget it all. Just as I do with everything Australian.