Path: ...!news.tomockey.net!2.eu.feeder.erje.net!3.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: RonB Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: (AntiHuman) Democrats have a monopoly on violence, vote rigging & money; Date: Sun, 5 May 2024 14:39:52 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 30 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sun, 05 May 2024 16:39:52 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="aa7b6f7e7ccc4237ecf3fde2ea915e9f"; logging-data="2011409"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18ri2znoSl9xgFbvt29bgoT" User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (Linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Jh2Q6IiH9xIqkq0/FOvSOY2V8HM= Bytes: 2677 On 2024-05-04, rbowman wrote: > On Sat, 4 May 2024 04:55:52 -0000 (UTC), RonB wrote: > >> I would rather do without rather than eat either real or fake peanut >> butter these days. I used to like the fake kind (probably because of the >> sugar) — >> the real kind... bleah. > > US food manufacturers found out long ago enough salt and sugar can make > cat shit palatable. > > https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/brief-history-peanut- > butter-180976525/ > > Some time ago I watched a documentary on Reese's Peanut Butter Cups. Reese > worked for Hershey's and made candies on the side for additional income. > He tried different fillings before hitting on peanut butter which at that > time was still a health food with limited distribution. > > He left Hershey's on amicable terms after agreeing to only source the > chocolate from Hershey. There's more to the story if you dig into it. One > problem in the early days was chocolate melts in the summer. Hershey's tried to buy out Reese for years but he wouldn't sell. I think his kids finally sold out after Reese died. -- [Self-centered, Woke] "pride is a life of self-destructive fakery, an entrapment to a false and self-created matrix of twisted unreality." "It was pride that changed angels into devils..." — St. Augustine