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From uuwest!jacques Sun, 02 Feb 92 04:30:05 PST remote from vox
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To: pwiebe@nl.oracle.com
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Subject: fun stuff
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From: jacques@darkside.com (Jacques Hadamard)
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Comments: Chopped pork shoulder doth not SPAM make.
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Message-ID: <VeoiFB4w165w@darkside.com>
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Date: Sun, 02 Feb 92 04:26:30 PST
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Organization: The Dark Side of the Moon +1 408 245 SPAM
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Subject: dot dot dot
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From: harrison@darkside.com (Harrison Page)
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Level 7: Not just me with a wig.
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Date: Sat, 01 Feb 92 16:53:52 PST
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Organization: The Dark Side of the Moon +1 408 245 SPAM
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Hedgehog mania has accounted for at least one business success story:
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Hedgehog Foods Ltd., one of Europe's biggest makers of organic potato
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chips, or crisps at the British call them. In 1981, Philip Lewis, a pub
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owners in Wales and devotee of hedgehog jokes, decided as a lark to
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produce "hedgehog flavored" crisps. Sales boomed, but it didn't take
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long for angry hedgehog lovers to blow the whistle, fearing that the
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crisps were actually made from hedgehogs. In fact, they were flavored
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with pork fat.
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But then, in 1982, Britain's Office of Fair Trading hauled Mr. Lewis
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into court for false advertising. A settlement ultimately was reached
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under Mr. Lewis interviewing gypsies, who actually do eat baked hedgehog,
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ascertained what hedgehogs taste like and commissioned a flavorings firm
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to more or less duplicate the flavor. He changed the labels from
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"hedgehog flavored" to "hedgehog flavor," and all interest were
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satisfied.
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Last year Hedgehog Foods had sales of $3.6 million and is now a major
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contributor to St. Tiggywinkles Hospital, plugging the hospital on every
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package. "Looking back, it was a bit gruesome, that flavor," Mr. Lewis
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concedes.
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- reprinted without permission from
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THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, January 8, 1992
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(page 1)
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(St. Tiggywinkles is a hospital exclusively for hedgehogs, located in the
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English Midlands. Hapless hedgehogs are sent from all over, mostly
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through British Rail's overnight parcel service, which has a special rate
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for shipping injured hedgehogs.)
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Steph Mandell jacques@darkside.com
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+31 20 69 69 554 Prevents Physics!
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