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Day: February 11, 2002
Heinz is releasing chocolate-flavored french fries. This is wrong in so many ways.
“We asked the kids what would make them want to eat more French fries,” said John Carroll, managing director of North American potatoes and snacks for Heinz’ frozen food division.
One of the rejected ideas was Fruit Loops-flavored fries, Carroll said.
Found via Metafilter.
Designated President Bush’s energy policy in a nutshell?
“The biggest challenge is going to be how to best utilize taxpayer dollars to the benefit of industry, in my opinion.” – Mike Smith, assistant secretary for fossil fuels at the U.S. Department of Energy, speaking to the Independent Oil and Gas Association of West Virginia, as quoted in the Charleston Gazette.
My thanks to Erik Wilson for passing this along.
God, I am such a geek sometimes. See, a couple of months ago, I started watching Farscape on DVD and almost immediately became a loyal fan. I can’t believe how tempted I am to actually buy a season worth of DVDs through Amazon UK. Even though, legally, I can’t switch between Region 1 and 2 encoding on my computer more than a couple of times before the choice becomes permanent. And even though it would cost me nearly $200 to buy the discs and have them shipped across the pond. Maybe I should just subscribe to the Sci-Fi Channel and hope that eventually they’ll re-run the second season. That would definitely be the cheaper route.