Verily I say unto thee, that Andrew Halliwell spake thusly:
> Homer <usenet@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Talking of beans, are there /really/ 57 varieties of haricot bean,
>> and if so, then what's the point of using all 57 varieties in a
>> dish if they all end up tasting like tomatoes? Do the disadvantages
>> of all that sugar outweigh the benefits of all that fart-inducing
>> fibre? Is it true that higher education students can actually live
>> off baked beans toasties indefinitely, and only suffer minor brain
>> damage?
>
> No, heinz 57 was just a made up number. It supposedly referred to the
> number of heinz products, not baked beans, but there've never been
> 57. A lot more maybe. Suppose they just thought 57 had a ring to it.
Sounds like a case of false advertising.
Time to register the boycottheinz.com domain.
[quick whois later]
Oh wow, it seems the H. J. Heinz Company is even more paranoid than me.
> You should watch more Qi. :)
I might if I had a television.
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