Yup-- take the molasses out, then put it back and charge you more for it when they could simply have left it there in the first place.
I beg to differ. Sugar In The Raw is turbinado sugar, and turbinado sugar is only somewhat refined, so what molasses is there is what remains, not what is added. In the case of brown sugar, that can either be unrefined, or refined with molasses added. Ya pays yer money and ya takes yer chances.
You’ll be glad to know you can buy a new Suzuki in my town, Birmingham, Alabama, for
$0 DOWN! $99 A MONTH!!
What could possibly go wrong with a deal like that?
Let’s freeze the frame and look at the fine print of the TV ad.
“Payments 1-3 $99. Payments 4-60 $399.”
I also like the $99/month ads where the fine print says:
“$6,999 due at signing.”
In the 1980’s when the Bell system was broken up, the phone company was regulated by the “Modified Final Judgement.”
I heard the phrase so many times at work I didn’t even think about it, until I started talking about the “MFJ” at home and my husband said, “Now, wait a minute. If something is FINAL, how can it be MODIFIED?”
And how about all the funeral announcements that say “passed on” “entered into peace” “went home to be with the lord” - there’s one in today’s paper that says “crossed the river.” They’re dead folks.
D-E-A-D. Period. (Although I do kind of like Rush Limbaugh’s phrase “assumed room temperature.”)
Prices are silly. $3.99 really means $4. My husband goes ballistic on the gas prices - $3.09.9 - it’s really $3.10, why not SAY it?
Supermarket products that are “specially selected.” What’s the opposite of that? Fell randomly out of a passing spaceship into the packs on the shelf?
If you have a cup of tea in the café on a Britanny Ferries ship you get a nasty little teabag with a long string and a cardboard tag that says on it “genuine leaf tea.” Well, I suppose you could make false tea from rabbit droppings…
And if you ever use the word “albeit,” I fart in your general direction. Or alright, irregardless or “a phenomena.” Grr! Were not doing apostrophe’s in this thread by any chance, are we?
I hate when people ask a question like: “Did you not break the vase”? I am like, yes, I mean no, hold on, I mean yes, I dont know.
Words that dont mean anything:
howzabout:
“Do not fold, bend, spindle or mutilate”
“Priority Mail”
“Yield”
“No Turn On Red”
“Speed Limit: 65”
“Employees Must Wash Hands Before Leaving Restroom”
I live in Huntington Harbour. Its a man made harbor, on a flood plain, in southern California.
(I must like it though as I am an original owner of a townhome I bought in 1976.) 
Sandy
Nano, ever been inside a sugar mill? Tubinado is another one of them there meaningless words. Sugar is sugar is sugar, and your body can’t tell one from another.
Nano-- I had forgotten about turbinado…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbinado
hyldemoer already covered the rye, so I’ll just mention that “corn bread” is not something that’s typically sold on the bread aisle. It’s actually more of a cake, though not typically as sweet. You eat it in wedges or chunks, or crumbled over a bowl of chili or the like, and you’d never be able to make a sandwich from it. It’s also sometimes called “Johnny Cake” or “Corn Pone.”
There’s also “corn meal muffins,” which are essentially corn bread cooked in muffin tins.
You can sometimes buy it ready made, but as it’s best fresh, most people make their own, either from scratch or from a mix.
Sounds good right at the moment, actually. I may need to make some later!
In any case, my point was that people are led to believe that “wheat” bread is somehow healthier than the ordinary white sandwich bread next to it on the shelf, or the sourdough the next shelf over, when in fact it’s just white bread with a little coloring added back in. They see brownish bread labeled “wheat bread” and assume that means “whole wheat.”
Redwolf
My tongue is part of my body and it sure can tell the difference between sugar and that nasty corn syrup stuff. Blech! I hate that stuff.
I work in marketing, despite all my best attempts not to. I really want to be in engineering but I keep ending up in marketing. I should have gotten a better education. Anyway, it pains me greatly the stuff I’m forced to produce. The most annoying words ever to this web developer? “Learn More”. That’s code for “Click here for more marketing BS”.
Corinthian leather seats.
Oh… and what is lovingly handcrafted?
While we’re at it, I was always annoyed by the product that claims to get your dishes “virtually spotless.” What is virtual spotlessness? Is it spotlessness that only appears to be that way? It has invisible spots.
That’s American tea, dear. The “genuine leaf” bit is supposed to assure you that it’s not stems and roots, even if it tastes like it.
And if you ever use the word “albeit,” I f*rt in your general direction. Or alright, irregardless or “a phenomena.” Grr! Were not doing apostrophe’s in this thread by any chance, are we?
I find “inflammable” to be vaguely disconcerting. You never know about that one.
“Alot” gives me a twitch.
“We the people of the United States of America, in order to form a more perfect union…”
Wait. More perfect? More? Perfect?
Functionality. That word drives me crazy. Why not just say an item’s functions are improved instead of saying it has increased functionality???
Ah yes! “people who are led to believe” Yes, of course, people who are led to believe so easily are the very sort of people that are the target for “words that don’t mean anything”.
Hmm, people who are led to believe. Vey good.
Honestly, for the most part Americans simply accept such a thing, and even look forward to such a price as $X.99, $X.98, $X.95, and the like. Indeed, for a $400,000 house, it would be altogether acceptable to see $399,995. Of course, such a price is an outright invitation to haggle. See how that works?
No, it’s bogus. Tea comes in two broad categories. Leaf and Bag. If it’s loose, it’s leaf tea. If it’s in a bag, it’s “Bag”. Labelling a tea-bag as “Leaf Tea” is not just misleading, it’s insulting.
A few years ago, some bright spark decided to put the supermarket garlic in a box so it was prettier on the shelves. They labelled the box “Fresh Garlic”. Except it wasn’t, it was dried. But they caught themselves on, on that one.