I know the American economy is not so healthy but surely things aren’t this bad?
Sales of monstrosity spam is rising rapidly as the economy flattens and consumers try to replace meat with spam.
Spam’s maker, Hormel Foods Corp., reported last week that it saw strong sales of Spam in the second quarter, helping push up its profits 14 percent. According to sales information coming from Hormel, provided by The Nielsen Co., Spam sales were up 10.6 percent in the 12-week period ending May 3, compared with last year. In the last 24 weeks, sales were up nearly 9 percent.
Apparently since food prices rose 4% in 2007, consumers have been finding ways to cut grocery bills. Spam has become a reasonable subsitute for many consumers trying to stretch their dollar – check out housewife Kimberly Quan’s statement to MSNBC:
“Quan cook meals like Spam fried rice and Spam sandwiches two or three times a month, up from once a month previously. Quan serves her husband and three children — ranging in age from 4 to 11 — organic vegetables like salads, broccoli and carrots. ‘It balances out,’ she said.”
Ehm no? Why not just shop at normal grocery stores and use the extra money to buy proper vegetables and meat?
And OMG, how gross is spam friend rice? Even if you don’t have the money to buy meat, why not vegetarian fried rice?
I’m on me way to NYC again for the weekend to spend my hard earned money on outlet goodies. The outlet mecca, Woodbury Common, beckons and I have no choice but to obey.
Instead of the usual Boston chinatown buses, Fungwah and Lucky Star, I’m taking the new bus company Bolt Bus. It’s a bit more expensive but there is free wifi and electric juice on the bus – being able to surf during the 4 hours on the highway is wonderful.
The wifi speed is surprisingly quite strong, I’m downloading some tv shows as I blog and the downloads are going fast. Goodie, I can watch “Ugly Betty” in a bit, no more staring out of the window and wishing I was nearer – who needs scenery when you have the internet?
waiting around in a conference room at 9.30pm for middle aged managers to finish editing three bullet points on a powerpoint slide for the past 90 minutes
The ABC show “Brothers and Sisters” (B&S) have got to be one of my favourite shows last year and this year.
Beyond the really well developed story arches and well rounded characters, B & S has one of the most fleshed out gay character on TV – Kevin Walker.
So throughout this current season, Kevin has oscillated between two guys – pastor Jason and chef-in-training Scotty. The past 10 episodes have Kevin breaking up with Jason and getting back to Scotty and trying to make things work by living together.
And when gossip started about an episode where Kevin proposes to Scotty, I was really curious to see how it would be like. Afterall, it’s not like everyday you see a guy proposing to another guy… much less on broadcast TV.
So when I watched last night’s episode of B & S, I knew the proposal scene was coming but was still blown away by how well written and sincere the scene was. The emotional charge of the scene was electrifying and I was blown away by how smart the proposal was….
Singapore must have really screwed New York Times bad in some way. Like a spurned lover, New York Times just wouldn’t let Singapore go without a bad spanking.
Now I really really like New York Times, its Sunday “this is a phone book” edition got me through many lonely weekends in upstate New York but its numerous snarky articles about Singapore really leaves me cold.
The Singapore government did set up a government dating agency called the Social Development Unit (SDU) to help graduates find partners after our founding father, Mr Lee Kuan Yew, bemoaned the fact that female university graduates were marrying later and later while having less and less children.
He was particularly worried about graduates not marrying and giving birth to smart kids so he decided he just had to to something about these stubborn educated ambitious women who-just-wouldn’t-give-birth-like-they-are-supposed-to-damnit
To Singaporean girls aspiring for the Sex and the City lifestyle, children would only muddle up the picture – do you think the Sex and the City girls would be this glamorous with kids in tow?
Wake up and smell the Cosmopolitans!
So the article is factually accurate, I give New York Times that. But their articles on Singapore reflect an overzealous tendency to portray Singapore as a village of infantile minions ruled by the Wizard of Oz and his flying monkeys.
Yes the SDU thing sounds ridiculous but it’s not like Singaporeans really take our government’s prodding that seriously. Singapore’s rapidly falling birth rate is a serious concern but it’s not like we’re all going to get pregnant as a form of misguided patriotism.
Singapore might not be the most complicated country in the world but it’s certainly not the land of simpletons New York Times like to believe it is
