Originally Posted By Witches of Morva ORDDU: You're quite welcome, Dear. There are actually MANY who have no idea that the Federal Reserve Bank is one of America's greatest threats. Thomas Jefferson was against it, too, having once said, "A private, central bank issuing the public currency is a greater menace to the liberties of the people than a standing army. We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt." ORWEN: Andrew Jackson was almost killed by some nasty assassin because he wouldn't support the idea of a Central Bank in his day. Fortunately the gun meant to shoot him mis-fired. ORDDU: Abraham Lincoln was against the formation of a Central Bank, as well. We all know what happened to him. Then there were the deaths of Presidents Harrison, Taylor and Buchanan. All were poisoned because THEY wouldn't support the idea of a Central Bank, which later became known as the Federal Reserve. The Federal reserve was established by Europeans who's main goal was to undermine the United States by making Americans vulernable through financial failures. Apparently they are succeeding remarkably well...
Originally Posted By AuroraRose hi i don't know i anyone mentioned this---i just started reading this thread, but the move to huge containers for condiments has less to do with cost, and alot to do with sustainability, there's less packaging used so less harm to the environment, less packaging generates less trash, and yes ultimately saves $$$ (and landfill space).
Originally Posted By Witches of Morva ORWEN: Well, I wouldn't mind them doing things to save the environment, AuroraRosse, duckling, IF the new bar-b-que sauce they now have tasted better. And, so far, I haven't seen them put any honey mustard in any of those bigger containers. They just said they'd discontinued it. I hope they change their minds...
Originally Posted By Mr X ***I always thought Mr X was from Tokyo, what's he doing telling people in this country how to vote?*** It's all part of the master plan for Japan to dominate the world. Haven't you all noticed that we're buying up all those collapsed banks of yours? Bwahahahahaha. Okay, back to WorldEvents.
Originally Posted By MPierce >> It's all part of the master plan for Japan to dominate the world. Haven't you all noticed that we're buying up all those collapsed banks of yours? Bwahahahahaha. << If I recall correctly the last time Nippon made a tactical strike like that they ended up with worthless paper stock, and way over priced real-estate. Did y'alls economy ever fully recover from that? Anyway good luck against the Gaijin this time around.
Originally Posted By Witches of Morva ORWEN: How's the honey mustard taste in Japan, Mr. X? Do they even HAVE honey mustard over there? And what about Krispy Kreme donuts, for that matter? Surely Japan is civilized enough to have THEM!!!
Originally Posted By Mr X ***ORWEN: How's the honey mustard taste in Japan, Mr. X? Do they even HAVE honey mustard over there?*** It's very delicious, Orwen. Made from the finest honey from bees raised in the mountains of the Japanese alps, and a special, extra sweet mustard made only in Japan. Goes great with kobe beef. And it's served in EVERY restaurant at Tokyo Disneyland and the fabulous DisneySea! ***And what about Krispy Kreme donuts, for that matter? Surely Japan is civilized enough to have THEM!!!*** But of course.
Originally Posted By dshyates By the way, "Heavenly Ham" has the best Hony mustard. It's called "That mustard", but it should actually be called Mustard Honey since its is about 95% honey. <a href="http://www.heavenlyham.com/Corporate/CorpProducts.asp?Category=Soups" target="_blank">http://www.heavenlyham.com/Cor...ry=Soups</a>
Originally Posted By Mr X On the whole world events issue of the Fed and how very, VERY dangerous it is to the American people (not that anyone cares), the Witches are right on the money. I started a topic (and I'm pretty much doubting anyone but the Witches and maybe one or two others will bother to check out...BUT, it is very important imho). <a href="http://mb.laughingplace.com/MsgBoard-T-100666-P-1.asp?C=1" target="_blank">http://mb.laughingplace.com/Ms....asp?C=1</a>
Originally Posted By demderedoseguys No honey mustard? How about the fact that there are no sweet potato chips being served at The Plaza anymore ? Much worse,IMO..
Originally Posted By A Happy Haunt I remember those great vegi chips at Tucker House in 2001!! First Mr. Toad...now THIS!!
Originally Posted By Spirit of 74 It's all about cutbacks now. Someone should start a WDW cutbacks thread here. No debate ... just people adding one everytime they encounter one. And to be fair to management, it must be something new ... as of say, since Sept. 1st. How about it? anyone game?
Originally Posted By SuperDry <<< It's all about cutbacks now. >>> Speaking about cutbacks at WDW, there are a couple of unrelated things I recently read in a business book that I think provide very good explanations as to what's been happening at WDW over the past few years and continue to happen. Example 1: Consider a case of someone in charge of a popular brand of ketchup. Due to business realities, they are forced to make cost cuts but have been instructed to do so in a way that doesn't affect sales or the brand image. So, they come up with a way to reduce costs by slightly adjusting the mix and quality of ingredients, and conduct extensive taste tests to prove that these changes had no effect on consumer preferences. That is, consumers were not able to distinguish between the original Version A of the ketchup and the new Version B with slightly reduced quality in a taste test. Great - Version B is put into production and the guy in charge of this is given a bonus. Next year, the same thing happens: earnings targets can't be achieved completely by raising prices and/or increasing market share, so they go through another round of product changes. Version C is proven to be indistinguishable from Version B through taste tests, and is put into production. A few years go by, and they're now up to Version K. Unfortunately, many consumers no longer consider this brand of ketchup a premium brand, but nobody can quite figure out why. Someone decides to make up a batch of the Version A from years ago and taste test this against Version K, and the results are dramatic: Version A is what everyone remembers, and in comparison, version K doesn't taste good. But, each and every incremental cost cutting change along the way was "proven" through market research to not affect the brand quality or image. And, there's no definable "straw that broke the camel's back" moment when most consumers got fed up and switched brands: it happened incrementally over time but the real problem was the cumulative nature of them, and most consumers couldn't even put their finger on what the particular change was that made them re-evaluate. To make things worse, it's not as if they can just undo the last change, go back to Version J, and everything will be okay again. The problem isn't any particular change, but the accumulation of changes over the years. And, given that they're currently at Version K, all of the cost cuts that have accumulated into the brand are now factored into the bottom line and current budget projections. So, there simply isn't any good option at this point to fix the problem as it would be very costly, and the people in charge act as if this came out of nowhere, and that they were making only sound (if not "provably correct") business decisions all along. Example 2: A man has this quirk where once a year, he throws out all his socks and buys a new drawer-full. Rather than keeping track of pairs of socks, he wears only one color and just has a bunch of them. Over the course of a year, he wears them more or less evenly, and just throws them all out at the end of the year instead of checking each pair to see when they're worn out. He's been doing it this way for years, buying the same brand of sock from the same store. One day half way through the year, his wife finds a sock in the garbage. She thinks nothing of it, until the same thing happens the next week. She asks her husband about it, and he says that the socks just aren't made as they used to be, as they don't last a year anymore, and he vows to not buy that brand anymore. What happened was that over the years, the manufacturer was steadily reducing the quality and amount of materials. This guy didn't notice and really didn't care, since as long as they lasted him a year, he had been happy. But at some point the next cut was to remove one row of stitching to reduce the amount of thread used ever so slightly. This caused them to fall apart prematurely even though they looked the same coming out of the bag. And the thing is, for the first year, there was no discernible affect on the sales of the socks, as it takes a long time before the collective decisions of consumers to switch brands to have any affect on this particular sock's sales. So, the decision-maker gets his bonus for cutting costs, probably gets promoted or moves to another company with his "proven track record," and someone else is left to figure out what to do about it when the delayed effects on the bottom line finally start happening. Yea, I realize these are parables of sorts, but I still think they're very instructive at the kinds of things that happen, especially in large businesses. And I think that some of you will find that they sound magically familiar.
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo And Superdry, this is why I have been so vocal (and indeed maybe a little hard on the Pollyanna's). I don't want to switch brands or forget Disney. I would rather pay a premium and get the product I became devout to 33 years ago (sadly not as much anymore).
Originally Posted By bobbelee9 Nothing personal intended here, but is your waisteline what it was 10-20 years ago? Your hairline? Your hair color? Sex life? Health? I'm not happy with my answers. I would love for Disney quality to be what it was years ago, but they don't have a monopoly on downgrading. Most of us are going downhill slowly. And I'm not Pollyanna, I'm Cinderella Sunshine.
Originally Posted By dshyates "Nothing personal intended here, but is your waisteline what it was 10-20 years ago? Your hairline? Your hair color? Sex life? Health? I'm not happy with my answers." No, that's why I charge less these days.
Originally Posted By NikkiLOVESMickey <<And I'm not Pollyanna, I'm Cinderella Sunshine.>> I'm Spunky McSpunkerson. <<No, that's why I charge less these days.>> ROTFLMAO!
Originally Posted By Spirit of 74 And I'm not big into conspiracies or anything, but why can't I (or another LP.er) get my WDW magical cutbacks thread to open? All we get is file not found ... like that page doesn't exist. So, mods, what's the deal? Has Meg's evil minions got into LP.com's secret HQ?
