ECONOMY ES SAVED?: “(Bloomberg) — Campbell Soup Co., the world’s largest soupmaker, said second-quarter profit fell 15 percent as retailers cut back inventories.” So is the economy saved and people are buying “real American” food (whole pigs) again? Or has Campbell’s just lost market share to Hobo Beans Inc.? The point is, buy carrot seeds, soon. [Bloomberg]
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We’ll know we’re truly screwed if the profits go down for spam, ramen, and chef boyardee.
TIP’D! Now plug my garbage blog you bastard!
Time to throw out the compost bin and go buy a Hummer!
Great — this just means the bottom’s fallen out of the recycled tin can market. Short Alpo! Stat!
[re=249459]JeffGoldblum[/re]:
Jeff, you gotta be shameless and plug your own blog, like so: “Hey guy’s you want to know what I think of that pig Rick Santelli? He isn’t fit to wipe the sweat off my balls.”
Thank goodness I bought a house with a yard! I can grow my own food and my own chickens and make my own soup when Campbell Soup and Hobo Beans go out of business.
[re=249454]Hooray For Anything[/re]: I will eat my own foot before I eat SPAM!!! It probably tastes the same or better, but it isn’t coated in a gelatinous snot.
The president of Burpee Seeds was on NPR on Saturday. He said that his Wall Street friends used to make fun of his company all the time, but now that the economy is crashing and we’re all on the brink of returning to subsistance farming, Burpee’s business is booming.
Who’s laughing now, punk?
I stopped buying name-brand canned soups when I realized the generic in-store brands were as good or better, at a big price cut. I think this was about 1977.
Then I stopped buying canned soups altogether when my doctor told me my sodium addiction was literally going to make my heart asplode. (There’s a buttload of salt in those soups. Even the “reduced sodium” ones are a no-no for those of us with high BP.)
if by “carrot seeds” you mean cocaine, then yes.
[re=249485]Lascauxcaveman[/re]: Hey have ya heard? Salt doesn’t affect your blood pressure after all — it was just one of those things that seemed like it ought to be true, like Alan Greenspan’s genius:
http://www.health-report.co.uk/sodium_chloride_salt_myths1.html
Think of all those cans of Cream of Tomato you could’ve slurped down. Mmm-mm good!
I had a friend who worked at a chicken “ranch” in Texas. The chickens spent their whole life in cages. Sometimes they died in the cage, and they were hard to get out of their too-small cage, so they had to mangle then getting them out. They called those wedgies” in the chicken ranch biz. Anyway, apparently, Campbells buys those chickens to make their delicious salt-flavored soups. Home-grown hobo beans are much better for you.
don’t plant carrots. those are really hard to grow (what you are likely to get will look weird). potatoes are reasonably easy. You might want to check the menu items in Leningrad. Let’s just let these come as a surprise.
Discarded pizza boxes are a good source of cheese…
[re=249469]CARCUNTZ!(tm)-R-Us[/re]: Invite us to your foreclosure party, we’ll squat in the yard…
[re=249485]Lascauxcaveman[/re]: I’ve tried the reduced sodium soups. They’re blandly gross. And the regular kind is so sodium-laced that I’m literally thirsty after finishing a bowl, and they give me heartburn.
I just make my own soup now. I’m no cullinary genius; I just follow recipes. My wife is better at it. My blood pressure’s fine for now, but I turn forty in another seven months, and there’s a family history, so there’s no sense in tempting fate right now.
I’m thinking about switching to a diet of seeds and raw vegetables. I don’t know if that would make me live longer, but it sure would it seem like I was.
[re=249477]Larry McAwful[/re]: My client, in fact (true truth!), Larry. Burpee and Mr. George Ball, the CEO, have been having a fabulous 2008 and 1Q ’09. And from the garden seed ‘n’ plant seers, they prognosticate glad tidings for home agrarians for quite a while.
[re=249466]Serolf Divad[/re]:
Classy blogwhoring really is a lost art…
[re=249505]Bronkers[/re]: They’re getting business from me. My garden got really big last year and this year I’m temped to till up the rest of the lawn.
[re=249505]Bronkers[/re]: Next time you see Mr. Ball, Bronkers, tell him that the McAwful family has appreciated his company’s products for years. My late grandmother planted zinnias and petunias with Burpee seeds, and my late mother planted petunias, snapdragons, tomatoes and other growing things with Burpee products, as well. I don’t currently have a yard, myself, but when I can finally buy a house, I’m going to plant flowers and vegetables, too, and most likely with Burpee products.
We always used to buy the seeds at Kraynak’s Garden Center in Hermitage, Pennsylvania. But now that I’ve moved to the Boston area, I’ll have to find some other place, since I’m not moving back there.
[re=249534]Sussemilch[/re]: Seriously? Because this idea appeals to me. I mean, I don’t own a house yet, much less a lawn, but I like the idea of turning the lawn into an elaborate garden with vegetables and flowers and little walkways and maybe a little fountain. Then some batboxes behind the house, and a couple of cats to keep the rabbits under control.
If you do this, let us know how it turns out. Seriously. Of course, if you don’t get all grounds-of-Versailles on your yard and just go with a splendid vegetable patch, tell us about that, too. My aunt used to have a quarter of her back yard dedicated to garlic production. No longer, though, since she’s sold the house and moved to Florida. But we used to get lots of fresh garlic every year, I remember.
I also remember that my uncle hit a bat with a paintbrush covered with white paint once. That’s probably not relevant at all, but it fits, in a stream-of-consciousness kind of way. Probably.
[re=249502]freakishlystrong[/re]: No foreclosure for me, but I can have a party anyway. I was one of the responsible home buyers who didn’t buy more than I could pay monthly. I ran theoretical budgets “15-ways-till-tommorow.” Looks like I should have taken the 350,000 dollar offer of credit I was given, then have all you jobless hobos pay for it!
When I was a kid in Ohio, my neighbor worked at a Campbell soup plant. One of his kids was “special needs,” and another was blind — just say’n ….
[re=249496]V572625694[/re]: Thanks for that link, I was wondering why my BP kept going up significantly even after I quit the salt. So either your doctor there on that link is right, or he’s bought and paid for by the Big Salt lobby.
Apart from the blood pressure, about a week after I quit salt, my mild-but-annoying migraines went away *poof* like that, I mean gone, daddy gone. I can’t get a headache now if I go on a shitface bender for a week and spend that time playing tackle football with no helmet. And I lost 15 highly unnecessary pounds I’ve been packing around for about the last 12 years or so. Bottom line, salt stays outta my diet. Mostly.
(A followup visit to my doc got me some good cheap drugs and now my BP is normal. He was disappointed that his no-salt idea didn’t help the BP, but felt vindicated that salt was behind the migraines, which was what I went to see him about in the first place.)
[re=249546]Larry McAwful[/re]: Dude, make it easy on yourself, you don’t have to till up the whole yard. Google “French Intensive Method” and grow alot of food in a little space. (Besides, it’s tres sexeh-sounding, n’est-ce pas?)
Think of all the hippie chicks you can invite over to see “French Intensive Method” demonstrated, then feed them, too.
[re=249565]Lascauxcaveman[/re]: All right. Now let’s talk cholesterol. I’m 189. Turn this into an old-guy medical blog.
[re=249477]Larry McAwful[/re]: I heard him! Yay for growing your own hobo beans.
And I also heard this Campbell story on NPR this a.m. and the loss was attributed to stores like WalMart increasing their “upscale store brand” products, so people are buying “la Soupe du Poulet WalMart” now instead of Campbell.
[re=249454]Hooray For Anything[/re]:
Old man seeks doctor,
“I eat Spam daily,” he says
Angioplasty
Yes, indeed, what of the Spam index? How is Hormel doing?
[re=249505]Bronkers[/re]: Keep in mind Burpee’s “Blue Heaven” morning glory seeds (futures for which trade on the San Francisco Mercantile Exchange). When you see only colors, you’ll forget you’re hungry. Trouble with ingesting the seeds is that you might discover your girlfriend’s Siamese in the microwave. Fucking annoying animal, anyway.
I’ve actually seriously thought of buying a few of those indoor garden thingies with the blacklights, but I think that they’re only good for strawberries, herbs and small tomatoes. We have a small crappy courtyard (what little dirt is there likely contaminated with lead paint chips) – there must be some vegetable that can be grown in large planters. I hope.
[re=249908]windupbird[/re]: You can grow tomatoes (not a vegetable, I know), radishes, swiss chard, all kinds of lettuce, and many many other things in large planters.
[re=249989]Dientes[/re]: Awesome. If I learn the fine art of moonshine distillation I’ll be completely self-sufficient in no time.
As a significant shareholder in Hobo Beans Inc., this comes as welcome news.
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