stephencrose Stephen C. Rose Jun 21, 10:27 AMRobert Draper Book: GOP's Anti-Obama Campaign Started Night Of Inaugurationhttp://t.co/zPPylyM7 Another source.
Robert Draper Book: GOP's Anti-Obama Campaign Started Night Of In...[democratsforprogress.com]
From the article:
You aren't seeing things and it's no accident. The sizes, portions, and varieties are bigger and better marketed. Another round of dubious 1st place blue ribbons the US has won.
The History of Supersizing: How We've Become a Nation Hooked on Bigger Is Better
http://www.alternet.org/food/155932/the_...is_better/From the article:
Quote:New York Mayor Bloomberg's new rules limiting sodas and other sugary drinks sold in restaurants, movie theaters, sports arenas, food carts and delis to 16 ounces has spurred a national debate. Should government limit our serving sizes? Bloomberg's rules do not prevent a person from buying two, five or 10 16-ounce sodas and drinking them all in one sitting. They just prevent a restaurant from selling that much soda in one cup. Stupid rule? Not if you know the history of supersizing.
The idea can be traced back to a man named David Wallerstein, who ran movie theaters in the 1960s. He tried method after method to get his customers to buy more than one order of popcorn. Nothing worked. Then he realized why: people thought they would look like pigs if they bought two popcorns. So he tried increasing sales a different way, by offering a jumbo size popcorn. The trick worked. Popcorn sales went up.
Nowadays, this profit-boosting trick is the standard at any movie theater. Some theater chains require cashiers to inform every customer that they can have the next size up for an extra quarter or two. It's a tiny amount of money to pay for a larger size of soda or popcorn, but for the theater, those extra few cents are nearly all profit. The labor costs them the same to sell you a small popcorn or a large one. The added cost of a box or a cup plus some syrup and water, or some popcorn, salt and seasoning is minimal. And you as the customer perceive this as a great value.
Wallerstein's brilliant idea might have stayed in his theater chain, but in 1968, he became a director of McDonald's. In the 1970s, the economy was not on McDonald's' side, and customers were visiting the restaurants less and less and then only buying very little. Wallerstein convinced the chain to offer larger sizes of fries to boost sales -- and, of course, it worked. Incredibly, the large size of fries from the late 1970s is the small size of fries today! The same is true of other menu items. The largest soda in 1955 was a mere seven ounces, smaller than the 12-ounce child size offered today.
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You aren't seeing things and it's no accident. The sizes, portions, and varieties are bigger and better marketed. Another round of dubious 1st place blue ribbons the US has won.
stephencrose Stephen C. Rose Jun 21, 10:26 AMRobert Draper Book: GOP's Anti-Obama Campaign Started Night Of Inaugurationhttp://t.co/5pPgK6Kr
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stephencrose Stephen C. Rose Jun 21, 10:23 AM@scottabel Thanks. I repeat the url http://t.co/ZfArmieG because I fear it will be zapped. A previous list of attendees cannot be accessed.
GOP plot is definitely un-American [thetandd.com]
stephencrose Stephen C. Rose Jun 21, 10:22 AM@kasinca http://t.co/ZfArmieG This story is in danger of extinction. It confirms precisely what we inferred from the start: GOP treason.
GOP plot is definitely un-American [thetandd.com]
stephencrose Stephen C. Rose Jun 21, 10:16 AMTweet the virtually invisible GOP conspiracy story far and wide. http://t.co/ZfArmieG
GOP plot is definitely un-American [thetandd.com]
stephencrose Stephen C. Rose Jun 21, 10:13 AMhttp://t.co/EscrqiaD Search http://t.co/AHtMAPF3 Jan. 20, 2008 reveals no reference to the GOP conspiracy meeting. The essential story!
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stephencrose Stephen C. Rose Jun 21, 10:09 AM"The conspiracy undertaken by the GOP is highly reprehensible and most definitely un-American." http://t.co/ZfArmieG
GOP plot is definitely un-American [thetandd.com]
stephencrose Stephen C. Rose Jun 21, 10:08 AM"Conservatives chose to risk the possibility of causing our nation untold damage in order to discredit the president." http://t.co/ZfArmieG
GOP plot is definitely un-American [thetandd.com]
stephencrose Stephen C. Rose Jun 21, 10:07 AM"There is a conspiracy by conservatives to use any means necessary to label the president as incompetent" http://t.co/ZfArmieG
GOP plot is definitely un-American [thetandd.com]
stephencrose Stephen C. Rose Jun 21, 10:07 AMGOP was "tethering on the edge of treason. " http://t.co/ZfArmieG
GOP plot is definitely un-American [thetandd.com]
stephencrose Stephen C. Rose Jun 21, 10:05 AM"GOP decided that they would play a game of “political chicken” with the economy, health care and the budget" http://t.co/ZfArmieG
GOP plot is definitely un-American [thetandd.com]
stephencrose Stephen C. Rose Jun 21, 10:04 AMJan 20, 09 conspirators Jim DeMint, Jon Kyl, Frank Luntz, Pete Hoekstra, Kevin McCarthy, Jeb Hensarling and Pete Se… http://t.co/ZfArmieG
GOP plot is definitely un-American [thetandd.com]
stephencrose Stephen C. Rose Jun 21, 10:02 AMJan 20, 09 conspirators Newt Gingrich, Eric Cantor, Paul Ryan, Dan Lungren, Tom Coburn, Bob Corker, John Ensign http://t.co/ZfArmieG
GOP plot is definitely un-American [thetandd.com]
stephencrose Stephen C. Rose Jun 21, 10:00 AM"A meeting of the GOP elite was held in Washington on the evening of Jan. 20, 2009" http://t.co/ZfArmieG
GOP plot is definitely un-American [thetandd.com]
stephencrose Stephen C. Rose Jun 21, 09:59 AMGOP plot is definitely un-American http://t.co/ZfArmieG
GOP plot is definitely un-American [thetandd.com]
stephencrose Stephen C. Rose Jun 21, 09:09 AMOpen Salon is down at this time. Salon is up. Strange as OS has seminal piece naming names of GOP conspirators vs. Obama 1/20/08.stephencrose Stephen C. Rose Jun 21, 09:02 AMPolice are being motivated to do racial profiling http://t.co/nLfZAW0Vstephencrose Stephen C. Rose Jun 21, 09:00 AM@EdieVP I cannot open it either. Overload? Foul play? I'm on the case. This clarified the GOP conspiracy to bring down the President.stephencrose Stephen C. Rose Jun 21, 08:50 AMPolice prison and education privatization aimed at saving money is a recipe for radical social decay.
