Friday, May. 02, 2003 8:54 P.M.
On the bandwagon - again First, before I go any further, I want to say Goodbye to TranceJen. My dear, you will be missed. I have enjoyed reading you these past two years. I am so happy about your recovery and only wish you the very best in whichever path you take. Please come back someday when it's right.
Good eeeevening. Gee I just had DejaVu of watching Alfred Hitchcock Theater. Oh well, As I was getting ready to say, I know I am about to get huge Google hits from saying this but oh well, they will be in for a disappointment. Hubby went online a few days ago and found a market that deals exclusively in products from England. It's called British Grocer out of Delaware. Tonight he made a hot custard sauce with Bird's Custard Powder. Then he opened up a can of cake and micro-waved it and tonight for the first time, I ate, are you ready for this???? I ate SPOTTED DICK!It sounds like a porno disease, don't it? It is really delicious. It is sort of like a hot spice cake with raisins. I slid off my diet for this, but it was worth it. All gone now. Back to my rum and diet lemon lime. He also bought Bisto. They sell the Bisto at our local Grocery store but these are cheaper and have more variety. This is a powder that is used to make gravy. I love this stuff! While eating the spotted dick he was like a kid in a candy store. He has been in the US for 25 years and it has been that long since he had it. Boy, after eating that, I am surprised that people in England don't weigh 500 pounds.
I once made him Yorkshire pudding. I was disappointed that it came out like a cake. Duh! That is what it is supposed to be like. He loved it. I was going to post some pictures last night, but I have been so busy at work this week, that I am just a tired puppy. I may get to them tomorrow.
In other exciting news� Have any of you tried the new squeezable Hellmann's mayonnaise? Well I did. If you try it, be careful when opening it. I took a bottle of it to work one day last week to mix with my tuna for lunch. I started to open it. It has one of those inserts under the cap that you have to remove first. On the back of the bottle it even tells you that. "Remove top". I take the cover off and I notice that the insert has little tabs that extend a little over the edge with which to pull up and lift off the cover. So I take my thumbnail and go to pull away the tab when WHAM it slips down between my thumbnail and the soft tissue behind it. Man! That was pain! Blood everywhere. I was so pissed, I wrapped my thumb in paper towel, grabbed the bottle and turned it over. I had thought the lid was either styrofoam or cardboard, but nope. It was heavy gage aluminum. I flipped the bottle again, looking for the address, company, name or whatever they had printed on it.
Aha! A phone number! And toll free to boot! I called them up, none too happy and told them what happened. The girl on the other end of the line took the details, my name, address and phone number and told me someone would be in touch with me soon. They were in touch with me alright. A $2.00 check, 5 coupons for free mayo and a letter. Now, mind you if the letter had have been assuring me that the packaging would be addressed, I would have been happy as hell. But no! The letter was addressed to me, score one point for the personalized letter as opposed to a form letter, but that's where the personalization ended. The entire letter was about the fact that they try to make sure that the sanitation is exemplary and the quality is the absolute highest possible. Well, that's well and good. I love Hellmann's. I have never had a problem with the PRODUCT! It is the PACKAGING, DAMNIT! So since I am one of those bandwagon people, I packaged up the bottle, placed it in the box they sent, (yes, they want it back) and included my own letter. In it, I first expressed my dismay (yup, I said that) that either the report never made it to Miss I-just-send-the-stupid-letters-and-coupons, or that she failed to read it. I reiterated that I was upset with the packaging. I deemed it unsafe and it needed further investigation. I went on to tell her that I was insulted by being "blown off" with a few coupons and a $2.00 check. I told her that unless and until I received a response that dealt with the issue, that I would be holding onto the check and the coupons. I don't want money here folks, though it DID piss me off. All I want is for them to change the top. I don't mean a recall or anything that drastic, just change them from this point on. Little ones like to make their own sandwiches and if that had happened to my granddaughter, I would have gone ballistic. I am making a point here whether they like it or not. Wait a few months and buy a bottle. Bet I make a difference.
Well, Star Search is on and I'm missing it. Catch ya all this week-end. Later�
Later,
Cosmic
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