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Default Beans and Gas--It's Official

On 12 Apr 2006 11:40:22 -0700, aem wrote:

> The South Africa Advertising Standards Authority has ruled that eating
> beans leads to intestinal gas, the NY Times reported today. In
> official phraseology, they said it was "objectively determinable
> factual reality" that people who eat beans pass gas.
>
> Bean producers had complained about an ad that made fun of them, but
> the Authority said the ad was okay because it was based on "objectively
> determinable....."
>
> Neither the story nor, presumably, the Advertising Standards Authority
> made any mention of Beano. -aem


Well, Beano is missing a good advertising campaign if they don't jump
on that bandwagon.
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