Heinz denies Kerry connection
H.J. Heinz Co. is seeing red — and not just in its ketchup
bottles. The Pittsburgh condiment maker has been putting considerable
distance between its brand name and Democratic presidential candidate
Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts.
at http://www.washtimes.com/business/20...4125-2957r.htm

Mike > wrote:
> Heinz denies Kerry connection
> H.J. Heinz Co. is seeing red — and not just in its ketchup
> bottles. The Pittsburgh condiment maker has been putting considerable
> distance between its brand name and Democratic presidential candidate
> Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts.
> at http://www.washtimes.com/business/20...4125-2957r.htm

I am a Heinz stockholder. Every so often, I get an email announcement regarding
Heinz via my stock broker. One announcement that I received about a month ago
was a press release from Heinz. The press release said that Theresa and John
Heinz had long ago divested their shares in the Heinz company and they do not
have a controlling interest in the company at all. Based on previous annual
reports I have received from Heinz, I can believe that.

>John
>Heinz had long ago divested their shares in the Heinz company and they do not
>have a controlling interest in the company at all.

If they have divested their shares, they have NO interest in the company, much
less a controlling one.

The Ford Motor Company has a similar problem; their marketing department must
spend millions every year in a vain attempt to get across the fact that the
Ford Foundation has had no connection, financial, familial, or other, to the
Ford Foundation since the 1970s. Although with Bill Ford as chief exec, they
might as well have.

(WardNA) wrote in
:

> in a vain attempt to get
> across the fact that the Ford Foundation has had no connection,
> financial, familial, or other, to the Ford Foundation

Isn't that a conflict of lack of interest? :-)

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Hmmm, now I'm wondering if Ronald Reagan had a play on Heinz stock.
Remember the "ketchup is a vegetable" fracas?

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Julian Vrieslander > wrote in
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> Hmmm, now I'm wondering if Ronald Reagan had a play on Heinz stock.
> Remember the "ketchup is a vegetable" fracas?

IIRC that was unfortunately not Reagan, it was someone from the
Department of Education...who exactly, I don't recall. In Canada, we
had a similar demonstration of right-wing caring when the Minister of
Social Services in Ontario, Dave Tsubouchi, told poor people they
could eat beans if they weren't happy with the cuts to their economic
support and gave his views on "wise shopping", reduced to finding the
69c dented cans of tuna. The irony is that with the cuts his
government had just made, the people were not left with enough to
purchase quality items like beans and 69c dented cans of tuna. The
minister seemed unaware of that fact.

Idiots abound and the right has much more than its fair share.

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Michel Boucher > wrote in message >. ..
> Julian Vrieslander > wrote in
> news:julianvREMOVE_THIS_PART-A418F6.21474708042004
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>
> > Hmmm, now I'm wondering if Ronald Reagan had a play on Heinz stock.
> > Remember the "ketchup is a vegetable" fracas?
>
> IIRC that was unfortunately not Reagan, it was someone from the
> Department of Education...who exactly, I don't recall.

Wasn't it his Office of Management and Budget bean counter
(ketchup-packet counter?), David Stocksdale?

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(Christopher Green) wrote in
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> Michel Boucher > wrote in message
> >. ..
>> Julian Vrieslander > wrote
>> in news:julianvREMOVE_THIS_PART-A418F6.21474708042004
>> @news4.west.earthlink.net:
>>
>> > Hmmm, now I'm wondering if Ronald Reagan had a play on Heinz
>> > stock. Remember the "ketchup is a vegetable" fracas?
>>
>> IIRC that was unfortunately not Reagan, it was someone from the
>> Department of Education...who exactly, I don't recall.
>
> Wasn't it his Office of Management and Budget bean counter
> (ketchup-packet counter?), David Stocksdale?

Yeah, could be. Just another foreigner ;-)

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"Michel Boucher" > wrote in message
...

>
> Yeah, could be. Just another foreigner ;-)
>

They all look alike, doncha know :-).

My dad once said that (without the "doncha know, and preceded by "I don't
know") in court when asked to identify the caucasian woman who rear-ended
his brand new Volvo station wagon. Needless to say, he was not given
compensation :-).

rona

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>Remember the "ketchup is a vegetable" fracas?

.. . . and whoever it was in Reagan's cabinet who made that assertion was quite
correct. The amount of ketchup it takes to send down a small order of French
fries is certainly more than a full serving of vegetables, by USDA standards.

The complaint against this obvious source of vitamins and deoxidants was that
it is guilty by association with junk food, which the intelligencia of that
period felt free to tromp on. They wanted Johnny to learn to like green beans,
instead.

Neil

In article >,
(WardNA) wrote:

> >Remember the "ketchup is a vegetable" fracas?
>
> . . . and whoever it was in Reagan's cabinet who made that assertion was
> quite
> correct. The amount of ketchup it takes to send down a small order of French
> fries is certainly more than a full serving of vegetables, by USDA standards.
>
> The complaint against this obvious source of vitamins and deoxidants was that
> it is guilty by association with junk food, which the intelligencia of that
> period felt free to tromp on. They wanted Johnny to learn to like green
> beans,
> instead.
>
Hmmm, proof positive that nutrition needs to be taught in the public
schools. My copy of Bowes & Church's Food Values of Portions Commonly
Used, 17th ed., lists vitamin A as about the only vitamin in significant
amounts in ketchup. Ketchup does have the antioxidant lycopene.
However, last I looked, high fructose corn syrup was not an antioxidant.

Cindy

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"Rona Yuthasastrakosol" > wrote in
:

> "Michel Boucher" > wrote in message
> ...
>
>> Yeah, could be. Just another foreigner ;-)
>
> They all look alike, doncha know :-).
>
> My dad once said that (without the "doncha know, and preceded by
> "I don't know") in court when asked to identify the caucasian
> woman who rear-ended his brand new Volvo station wagon. Needless
> to say, he was not given compensation :-).

I would consider the bemused look on the judge's face compensation
enough.

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Cindy Fuller > wrote in

:

> Hmmm, proof positive that nutrition needs to be taught in the
> public schools. My copy of Bowes & Church's Food Values of
> Portions Commonly Used, 17th ed., lists vitamin A as about the
> only vitamin in significant amounts in ketchup. Ketchup does have
> the antioxidant lycopene.

Because ketchup is made of tomatoes. Anyone who needed a vegetable
portion would be better off eating tomatoes than ketchup unless it
was my aunt's homemade ketchup.

> However, last I looked, high fructose
> corn syrup was not an antioxidant.

I briefly dated a woman many years ago who believed that popsicles
were nutritious. Obviously false informationm is manufactured by the
bucketful.

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"Michel Boucher" > wrote in message
...
>
> I would consider the bemused look on the judge's face compensation
> enough.
>

Normally, yes, except this was in 1969 and there were few brown people in
Winnipeg back then. We brownies were supposed to be subservient and not
cause trouble. I think the judge was probably more shocked or insulted than
bemused. But I still love that story, and tell it often :-).

rona

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> Michel Boucher
>
>I briefly dated a woman many years ago who believed that popsicles
>were nutritious.

Hmmm, briefly, eh... seems you were slow on the uptake. hehehe


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Michel Boucher > wrote:

> Because ketchup is made of tomatoes. Anyone who needed a vegetable
> portion would be better off eating tomatoes than ketchup unless it
> was my aunt's homemade ketchup.

No true. Processing tomatoes into such things as sauce and ketchup
removes a lot of the water from the tomatoes. That has the effect
of concentrating the nutrients in the tomatoes for a given volume.

>> However, last I looked, high fructose
>> corn syrup was not an antioxidant.

> I briefly dated a woman many years ago who believed that popsicles
> were nutritious. Obviously false informationm is manufactured by the
> bucketful.

Popsicles can be nutritious if they are made from real fruit juice.
Even so, they will still pack a lot of sugar.

>My copy of Bowes & Church's Food Values of Portions Commonly
>Used, 17th ed., lists vitamin A as about the only vitamin in significant
>amounts in ketchup. Ketchup does have the antioxidant lycopene.
>However, last I looked, high fructose corn syrup was not an antioxidant.

Point made, then, as far as that goes, since those are important nutrition
sources. I would venture, furthermore, that Bowes & Church underestimate the
amount of ketchup consumed by a kid eating an envelope of french fries. A good
deal more than half an ounce; more like 3 ounces.

What's the point about high fructose corn syrup? The major brands have more
tomato concentrate than corn syrup; the corn syrup is a delivery agent for the
tomato concentrate. If you left it out, little Johnny probably would not get
his tomato concentrate and strive to fill his sugar craving by other means.

Neil