I am going to update the pet food recall info in Post 96 as soon as I'm done with this post.
I thought of another recall from last year:
4. Peter Pan brand peanut butter. All Peter Pan was recalled due to Salmonella or E Coli(can't remember which). Deaths occured. The contamination was traced to a production plant in Georgia that had a leaky roof & leaky sprinkler system.
Peter Pan is still off of store shelves. The company says it will be resuming production in July. Other makers such as Jiff & Skippy have had a hard time filling the demand gap & have cut back or ceased making special varieties to fill the demand for creamy & chunky. Customers are constantly asking me why I don't have honey or low sugar peanut butter... I can't do anything about it, but they don't seem to believe me.
Well, my state would be yours.
It's mine! All mine! You can't have it! Muhahahahaha!
So in your state the legal limit is 18 and not 21? I thought it was 21 all over the US..
18 to buy tobacco & lottery tickets, bet at the horse/dog track races, vote & have sex. Also 18 to sell tobacco or alcohol.
21 to buy Alcoholic beverages or gamble at an Indian casino. We don't have real casinos, yet, but the state legislature just voted to allow them in one county last week.
What is the logic in that?
None. Our alcohol laws date back to the end of Prohibition & are terribly outdated. There is little political will to change them, though. Several cities won a court decision against the state last year to allow Sunday alcohol sales. That was mostly because the cities wanted the sales tax revenue.
In my state, any store that sells alcoholic beverages is barred by law from selling anything else. Conversely, food stores are barred from selling alcoholic beverages. These screwy laws artificially create an industry of liquor stores. According to state law, anything with 3.2% alcohol content or less isn't an alcoholic beverage; it's a "cereal malt beverage." Grocery stores like mine can only sell "cereal malt beverages" because of this. Welcome to Kansas where the doctors all specialize in Bible thumping injuries.
Every state has different laws regarding this.
Maryland has similar laws barring food stores from selling booze.
New Orleans was the last place in the U.S. to have a drinking age of 18. It finally buckled & raised it's age limit because the federal government was withholding highway funding.
Do you know why pop seems to taste better out of glass bottles? Am I crazy?
More than one answer here.
1. The pop made in the U.S. today is sweetened with corn syrup. Originally, cane sugar was used. That Coke you remember from when you were a kid tasted better because it was sweetened with cane sugar & came in a glass bottle.
2. Plastic leeches a plastic taste into liquid over time. This is one reason why pop in plastic bottles has shorter sell by dates.
3. Plastic bottles & lids don't hold carbonation as well as glass bottles with metal lids. Again, this is why pop in plastic has a shorter sell by date.
Cane sugar & glass bottles are no longer used in the U.S. because they are more expensive than corn syrup & plastic.
Coke & Pepsi are still made with cane sugar & bottled in glass in Mexico. You can find Mexican Coke & Pepsi in the U.S. at stores with a good Hispanic food selection. Mexican immigrants immediately notice the taste difference & look for the real thing. That's what Coke & Pepsi are supposed to taste like IMO.
The 18 to sell, 21 to buy this is pretty crazy...I agree. At work, we almost always have somebody under 21 tend the bar (and sometimes, its me, creating a double irony)
Off topic, but states vary here, too. In Kansas & Missouri, bartenders have to be 21. Waiters have to be 18 to serve alcohol. Missouri used to have a special license requirement for bartenders, but it's been years since I was in that business so I don't know if it's still the same.
Seriously, I think that the glass is less reactive to the liquid inside than aluminum is. :shrug: Just a guess.
I hadn't thought of aluminum. I think beer in cans has a slight aluminum taste, but it's just my opinion.
What seems really odd to me is that at 18 Americans can legally vote and join the millitary and kill people, but they can't drink beer or smoke cigarettes.
They can smoke, but not drink. It's odd to me, too. There is simply no political will to allow 18 year olds to drink.
You can smoke at 18 in some places. In Virginia, at least, I know you can, because just yesterday some friends of mine who are 18 bought some cigars and smoked them on the street. (A teenage blond girl who doesn't know what she's doing smoking is one of the funniest sights I've ever seen
) According to Wikipedia, the minimum smoking age is 18 in 46 states, and 19 in four. As for drinking, I'm pretty sure you can drink it on private property with the owners permission before you're 21.
Thanks for the report from Virginia! Again, every state has different laws.
American teenagers are much more irresponsible.
Although they get drunk anyway it would be even worse if it was legalized at that age.
I have been to countries with no drinking age. They have MUCH lower rates of problems like alcoholism & drunk driving. Cultures are different. Over there, drinking is no big deal. Here, it is treated like some coming of age right of passage or a method of rebellion.
I am almost positive that isn't true. How would you bust somebody for underage drinking at a party then?
I don't know about elsewhere, but, in my state, the property owners can be charged with contributing to the delinquincy of a minor or providing alcohol to a minor.
My mistake, I didn't say everything necessary.
Apparently the owner must not only give permission, but must be present as well, and be a parent or relative.
So you need a parent present, and have their permission, but if you can get that then you can drink, at least in some places in the US.
Again, thanks for the report from Virginia!
18 is the legal age for tobacco use and purchase in the US.
To get into an R rated move you need to be 16.
To smoke, vote, join the military and in some states play the lottery, 18.
Drink and gamble and some other states play the lottery, 21.
When I was younger, I really wanted to see one age for all. I'm not quite as passionate about it now, but it still makes sense to me.
Thanks for the report!
As you said, allot of people wouldn't mind the law changed, but it's not on anyone's must do now list.
Here it's all opposite, alcohol and tobacco didn't have any age restrictions until recently (except for bars), and now they're 16 for selling (there isn't anything for consumption and I still see 13-14 year-olds buy vodka at 7-11). Everything else is 18, but young people under 21 get penalized harder for traffic violations in an attempt to discourage young speed demons.
Thanks for the report from Denmark!
Sure, but very few people in the military actually kill anyone. I don't know, it is possible that more teenage drivers than teenage soldiers have killed someone.
Again, countries with no drinking age have much lower rates of drunk driving.
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