Thread: Grumpy Old Men

Originally Posted by Galopede

You've got it! It was a Dr Oetker pizza with the ten languages. I read the other day that they are the biggest selling frozen pizza in Italy and they are made in Lancashire, England and then exported to Italy!

Talk about taking coals to Newcastle. Apparently the UK makes a lot of the dried pasta they sell in Italy too...

Gareth

Dr Oetker has 10 languages on a pizza box, for a total of 16 countries (e.g. Belgium and the Netherlands share a section ). I prefer wagner pizza though.

In any case, if we can survive 10 languages on a package that is distributed in 16 countries, 2 languages should not be a drama. This is global economics at work.

I have the perfect solution for you. Make em yourself from scratch using good old Yankee ingenuity. They will taste better too. I guarantee it.

I remember when people could use proper grammar and spelling, especially in writing, and be able to make a coherent argument. At least in the language they claim as native. I still think that when somebody proclaims to be Christian they ought to demonstrate bigger concern about the plank in their own eye, before making a big issue about the straw in their neighbor's eye.

I also remember when people didn't need to read instructions how to heat up a meal, or make pancakes (in fact they didn't need a 'mix', just some flour, water, baking soda, may be an egg or two and some milk if available), although that may have been in my backwards underdeveloped country, and not in the great USA.

As far as the labeling any private company decides to use on their own products, I think that in USA it is that private company's business. The free market is more than capable to distinguish whether it is more important to save 0.001c on the labeling, cater to one group's nationalism, or to another group's lack of language skills.

Originally Posted by gugi

I remember when people could use proper grammar and spelling, especially in writing, and be able to make a coherent argument. At least in the language they claim as native. I still think that when somebody proclaims to be Christian they ought to demonstrate bigger concern about the plank in their own eye, before making a big issue about the straw in their neighbor's eye.

I also remember when people didn't need to read instructions how to heat up a meal, or make pancakes (in fact they didn't need a 'mix', just some flour, water, baking soda, may be an egg or two and some milk if available), although that may have been in my backwards underdeveloped country, and not in the great USA.

As far as the labeling any private company decides to use on their own products, I think that in USA it is that private company's business. The free market is more than capable to distinguish whether it is more important to save 0.001c on the labeling, cater to one group's nationalism, or to another group's lack of language skills.

The USA is great ,and dont you forget it!!

How could I ever forget it, it even used to have 'Great' in its name

Spanish pancakes are delicious...Just sayin'.

I dont mind the multiple languages so much, its when you are trying to read a label at the store to learn more about the product and you cant, because of the other langauges printed on the package, anymore I pass them up. I grind my own wheat btw when I make my pancakes, I used to eat six of the boxed/bagged mix variety, but it only takes two of the real ones and I am full. Too easy to do yourself, like biscuits and gravy, why the heck would you want factory made gravy, especially when you consider that half of the ingredients present are there to make sure the "product" (not food) does not gunk up the machines.

I cannot speak for the USA, having very little first hand experience of life in that country. However, in Australia we have similar things. It is mainly because in Australia we have many different base nationalities that combine together to create our country. There are those who think that white, anglo, english speakers are the only kind of "Australian". However, they'd be very wrong. In fact, the only "true" Australian may well be what is left of the Indigenous population. The rest of us are all immigrants, here at most 200-odd years. The idea that I am any more "Australian" than anyone else simply because of the colour of my skin, my religion, the language I speak, or which of my ancestors slaughtered more natives in the early years is completely laughable when you consider the time-frame of white settlement.

Australia has always been, in the post invasion and mass genocide era , a country in flux when it comes to the makeup of its population - it has defined us for generations. There will always be groups claiming that other groups should not be part of their group for whatever reason. Usually, in Australia, the reason is fear and ignorance. I've yet to hear a good reason, but I have not live that long yet so perhaps one day before I die someone will come up with a good one...

Anyway, these are just my thoughts on why, in Australia, some packaging has labelling in other languages - because we are a multi-faceted and multi-languaged country despite what some people want to believe.

I am not a pancake fan - I prefer pikelets.

James.

Originally Posted by Jimbo

I am not a pancake fan - I prefer pikelets.

I don't know what a pikelet is and I'm feeling too lazy to use the Google right now, so I'm just going to call you a blasphemer for not liking pancakes. If I was closer I'd force you to eat home made buckwheat and sweet potato pancakes with maple syrup and sausage gravy until you exploded.

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