What do you boycott and why? - Page 7

DrummerDeanna · #91 02-04-2005, 04:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Lux

Oh so you do have jam! Ok now the question is, why do people eat the vomit-inducing, sugary jelly stuff if you have the real jam?

lol...as a kid - I used to eat teaspoons of nothing buy sugar....they hook us young in this country

I don't like jelly now (too sweet) - and thing jam is much more tasty...but I'm thinking sugar is the issue...

Livia · #92 02-04-2005, 04:19 PM

I also boycott any place of business that gives me sh*tty service. Be careful at places like Jiffy Lube - they use power tools to remove the drain plug (which can sometimes strip it) - if they didn't ruin the plug by doing that, they toss it into a bowl of hundreds of other types of plugs - then they grab whatever to put back on your car. I just had my brakes worked on and my mechanic pointed that out to me. They also didn't replace the gasket - so, I've had a slow oil leak for the last 2000 miles or so. I've heard worse horror stories from those oil change places - so just be careful!

P.S. I consider myself a magnet for incompetence - so I usually expect every so-called professional I deal with to screw up. And they usually do.

DrummerDeanna · #93 02-04-2005, 04:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Livia

I also boycott any place of business that gives me sh*tty service. Be careful at places like Jiffy Lube - they use power tools to remove the drain plug (which can sometimes strip it) - if they didn't ruin the plug by doing that, they toss it into a bowl of hundreds of other types of plugs - then they grab whatever to put back on your car. I just had my brakes worked on and my mechanic pointed that out to me. They also didn't replace the gasket - so, I've had a slow oil leak for the last 2000 miles or so. I've heard worse horror stories from those oil change places - so just be careful!

P.S. I consider myself a magnet for incompetence - so I usually expect every so-called professional I deal with to screw up. And they usually do.

I do the same thing- if I get sh**ty service somewhere - I call them on it and I don't return to the place...or I bitch to a manager or something...I've gotten many free meal/dessert or drink that way

skcin · #94 02-04-2005, 04:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Lux

Oh so you do have jam! Ok now the question is, why do people eat the vomit-inducing, sugary jelly stuff if you have the real jam?

When you're brought up with it, that's the only thing you know!

amber · #95 02-04-2005, 04:40 PM

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Originally Posted by DrummerDeanna

lol...as a kid - I used to eat teaspoons of nothing buy sugar....they hook us young in this country

I don't like jelly now (too sweet) - and thing jam is much more tasty...but I'm thinking sugar is the issue...

Omigosh, I used to do that to...

I'd be like "mmmm, grainy sweet goodness..."

amber · #96 02-04-2005, 04:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Lux

Yeast is the main ingredient. In America do you have the jam (jelly, whatever) with the huge chunks of strawberries, blackberry, apricot, or whatever the type happens to be? I tried some when I was there and it seemed like a sugar gel (crazy yanks and your sugar). Does 'jelly' cover both (assuming the former exists over there) or is that the jelly and jam the same as ours?

Probably the closest thing we have to not being sickeningly sweet "jelly" is apple butter. It's just what it sounds like, and is not that sweet.

skcin · #97 02-04-2005, 05:04 PM

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Originally Posted by DrummerDeanna

lol...as a kid - I used to eat teaspoons of nothing buy sugar....they hook us young in this country

Me too! My mom also used to give us butter or butter & jelly on saltine crackers.

heyjupiter678 · #98 02-04-2005, 05:13 PM

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Originally Posted by amber

Probably the closest thing we have to not being sickeningly sweet "jelly" is apple butter. It's just what it sounds like, and is not that sweet.

I grew up on apple butter.

I still love it to this day, but I don't buy it because I don't know when to say when.

DrummerDeanna · #99 02-04-2005, 05:30 PM

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Originally Posted by skcin

Me too! My mom also used to give us butter or butter & jelly on saltine crackers.

my mom did that too!! I still crave saltines with butter sometimes

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Originally Posted by amber

Omigosh, I used to do that to... I'd be like "mmmm, grainy sweet goodness..."

hahah- yeah - I also used to eat Tang - just the powder lol...I don't know a) how I still have teeth and b) how I don't weigh 900 pounds

dissention · #**100** 02-04-2005, 05:35 PM

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Originally Posted by skcin

Me too! My mom also used to give us butter or butter & jelly on saltine crackers.

My mom used to make toffee with saltine crackers.

SuzeQuze · #**101** 02-04-2005, 06:37 PM

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Originally Posted by sara1998

Ya know, I was like that with cars. I would only buy an American made car, but after owning 4 American cars, I'll buy a Toyota next time.

I've not had any luck with the American pieces of ****.

I recommend this. I have had very good luck with my Toyota. Prior to that I had a Ford Escort (do not touch with 10 foot pole), and prior to that a Plymouth Horizon which wasn't great but was better than the Ford. That one was a stick shift which I learned on. I used to "peel out" with that stupid 4 cylindar hatch back in high school cuz I could. It would make this obscene screech like it had some kind of power, too fun!!!!

SuzeQuze · #**102** 02-04-2005, 06:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Lux

Oh so you do have jam! Ok now the question is, why do people eat the vomit-inducing, sugary jelly stuff if you have the real jam?

Because it's cheap. You can get a giant jar for 99 cents. And, like Deanna said, it tastes awesome to kids. I don't eat it anymore either. I buy all natural jam. It is still very sweet, I wish we had less sweet options, I would love that! But I do enjoy the sweet jam. On whole grain bread, of course.

I won't buy jelly because it has high fructose corn syrup which is very cheap but not very easily used by your brain for energy. If it is put in an IV (the fructose that is) you cannot survive on it. It's not good and it is in softdrinks, cookies, everything. I don't buy any of that though. I also avoid trans fats, anything with hydrogenated oil in it I will not buy. This stuff is worse for you that butter.

estranged4life · #**103** 02-04-2005, 06:51 PM

some people who seem to have boycotted baths, deodorants, shampoo & toothpaste/mouthwash

SuzeQuze · #**104** 02-04-2005, 07:00 PM

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Originally Posted by DrummerDeanna

I do the same thing- if I get sh**ty service somewhere - I call them on it and I don't return to the place...or I bitch to a manager or something...I've gotten many free meal/dessert or drink that way

The worst I encountered was sitting for 45 minutes without being helped. Finally we placed our orders and waited quite a while again. And this was a WORK lunch. We complained to the manager and he would do NOTHING.

We were flabbergasted. Of course if it happened now I would probably just start hollering and get my way, they don't like people yelling, hehe. We just didn't leave a tip. That was the only time I 've walked out of a restaurant without leaving a tip, we all agreed none was warrented, and the guys I was eating with had been waiters!

I've had good luck at the Valvoline I go to (knock on wood).

The other time I had really bad service was when my car was in for repairs and they charged me for 12 hours of labor and they only had the car for 6 hours! They charge you by the "book". My Dad went down there and yelled at them and they gave me back about $200.

You really can't let people get away with this bullsh*t, stand up for yourself. It used to be hard for me to do that but it isn't so hard anymore. I don't usually send my Dad in anymore.

Oh yeah, when I bought my car they put 2 new tires on. My Dad looked at the 2 old tires and told me he thought they were unacceptable. He called them up and told them he would take me straight down to the registry to see if it would pass inspection. I got my second pair of new tires.

Yay Dad! His father died young so he never had anyone advocate for him and got ripped as a kid a few times, but no more! He loves helping with that stuff.

catinthedark · #**105** 02-04-2005, 07:28 PM

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Originally Posted by dissention

My mom used to make toffee with saltine crackers.

How in the world does one make toffee with Saltine crackers?

Lux, jelly is made from the juice of the fruit, plus sugar, and sometimes pectin. Whereas jam has the actual chunks of fruit.
Both can be all-natural (ie. just the fruit or fruit juice and sugar), and both can be evil and full of additives and preservatives and artificial colour and flavour.