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    Kraft Foods Has the Worst Ideas for What to Make for Dinner

    Scientists Launch Study to Determine Exactly How Human Animals Should Be
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    Image of onebadclam onebadclam
    11/10/09

    In reply to Kraft Foods Has the Worst Ideas for What to Make for Dinner
    I have always believed cole slaw lacked the proper amounts of of peas and ranch dressing. #kraftfoods
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    11/10/09

    In reply to Kraft Foods Has the Worst Ideas for What to Make for Dinner
    Chocolate is evil!

    [www.globalexchange.org] #kraftfoods
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    11/10/09

    In reply to Kraft Foods Has the Worst Ideas for What to Make for Dinner
    Aren't they embarrassed that they're legally required by law to refer to Velveeta as "Velveeta Product?" You would think they would want to bump the cheese level up or change the formula somehow so that they could call it Velveeta cheese. These are the kind of monsters we're dealing with here. #kraftfoods
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    Image of raincoaster raincoaster
    11/10/09

    In reply to Kraft Foods Has the Worst Ideas for What to Make for Dinner
    If it'll result in the un-cancellation of the Irish Rovers tv show, I'm in favour of it. #kraftfoods
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    11/10/09

    @raincoaster: (closing tag) < / Canadianism #kraftfoods
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    Image of the lesser of two weevils the lesser of two weevils
    11/10/09

    In reply to Kraft Foods Has the Worst Ideas for What to Make for Dinner
    My mother in law gets the Kraft "food and family" magazine in the mail, I swear it has the most depressingly unoriginal/downright lazy meal ideas I've ever seen. The worst has to be the "ideas" sent in from readers, which recently included this winner - "I serve juice pouches and peanut butter sandwiches at my kids' parties, they're a real hit." #kraftfoods
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    Image of Claire Buoyant Claire Buoyant
    11/10/09

    In reply to Kraft Foods Has the Worst Ideas for What to Make for Dinner

    VELVEETA Fudge #kraftfoods
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    Image of VoxPopuli VoxPopuli
    11/11/09

    @Claire Buoyant: My brain went through so many twists and turns trying to make sense of that. Ugh. #kraftfoods
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    Image of Benny Benny
    11/10/09

    In reply to Scientists Launch Study to Determine Exactly How Human Animals Should Be
    "Any reasonable person"???

    Wow. I'm a little shocked by this.

    As any first year philosophy student can tell you, the yuck factor is (literally by definition) unreasonable. It pertains to snap judgements made in the absence of reasoning, and has been used as a justification for all sorts of terrible and harmful 'moral' positions. For example, you can thank the yuck factor for the widely held belief that homosexuality is immoral. ...Great.

    The term 'wisdom of repugnance', which you link to, was coined by none other than Leon Kass, who sat on Bush's 'Presidents Council on Bioethics'. He and his ilk are the very same antagonisers of science who we have to thank for all the great stem cell research that DIDN'T happen in the past eight years.

    I'm surprised to find Gawker locking step with them and their most idiotic philosophy. They dreamt the term up in order to legitimise prejudice and justify their stifling scientific policies. #yuckfactor
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    Image of Colander Colander
    11/10/09

    @Benny: Love you. #yuckfactor
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    Image of Han Valen Han Valen
    11/10/09

    @Benny: You know what? No.

    People like you like to think of yourselves as just SOOOO enlightened. But really, you're just naive and gullible, with zero common sense. Zero. #yuckfactor
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    11/10/09

    @Colander: Aww. :) #yuckfactor
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    11/10/09

    @Han Valen: Wait. ...What? Gullible how? Articulate with words. #yuckfactor
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    Image of futuremrsrickankiel futuremrsrickankiel
    11/10/09

    In reply to Kraft Foods Has the Worst Ideas for What to Make for Dinner
    Cadbury? Cuddly? I think not. This video cemented what my sister and I swore to the rest of my family was true: #kraftfoods
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    Image of Magister Magister
    11/10/09

    @futuremrsrickankiel:
    Didn't Cadbury say in defense of this takedown that they had licensed the creme egg to Hershey and the smaller eggs weren't actually Cadbury products?
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    11/10/09

    In reply to Kraft Foods Has the Worst Ideas for What to Make for Dinner
    I bought a Mars bar the other day at the new Publix in South Beach. (Don't go there; the parking sucks. I nearly totalled my car.)

    I didn't mean to do it, to buy that Mars bar, I mean, I was just caught up in their ethnic aisle and vastly amused to discover that British food is now ethnic. As far as I know, Mars and Cadbury (maker of other much-loved childhood face-stuffing things) are not related.

    So I ate the English Mars bar, much smaller than it used to be, and then idly checked the wrapper. Nearly 300 calories! My daily limit!! (Wine has no calories, I've decided. If it had, I would be immense.) #kraftfoods
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    Image of raincoaster raincoaster
    11/10/09

    @registered: 300 calories is your daily limit? Do you work at Vogue? #kraftfoods
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    11/10/09

    @raincoaster: See what I said about wine. No Perrier here. #kraftfoods
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    Image of Matt Cherette Matt Cherette
    11/09/09

    In reply to Kraft Foods Has the Worst Ideas for What to Make for Dinner
    Adrian, was "Caledonia" a reference to the city in MI? I know you said you went to U of M at some point (me too), so thought I'd ask. #kraftfoods
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    Image of BaldwinPeriphetes BaldwinPeriphetes
    11/10/09

    @mattchew03: This is one of those culture traps. If he says it's the city in MI, he's a yokel. If he says it's a Scotland reference, he's a highbrow elitist. If it's a remnant from his vacation on New Caledonia, he's a rich elitist. No win answer, baby!
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    Image of mslewis mslewis
    11/09/09

    In reply to Kraft Foods Has the Worst Ideas for What to Make for Dinner
    Oh, come on, Kraft isn't that bad. They have that delicious mac & cheese dinner and now they have individual little buckets of it that you can nuke!! Great for the kiddies!! Beats ramen noodles!! #kraftfoods
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    11/10/09

    @mslewis: I'm not sure how you determined that serving your kid Mac & Cheese in a "bucket" is better then Ramen noodles in a bowl but I'm calling CPS. #kraftfoods
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    Image of Claire Buoyant Claire Buoyant
    11/09/09

    In reply to Scientists Launch Study to Determine Exactly How Human Animals Should Be
    Yet no one will stop the insanity that is turducken.
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    Image of Anrkist Anrkist
    11/09/09

    In reply to Scientists Launch Study to Determine Exactly How Human Animals Should Be

    Al Gore gets to make horrible creatures, why can't we? Another evil ploy by the left.
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    Image of Zira Zira
    11/09/09

    @Anrkist: Andrew Sullivan? #yuckfactor
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    Image of Anrkist Anrkist
    11/09/09

    @Oryx Hearts Crake: I do not know who that is, but I shall follow them and find out. #yuckfactor
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    Image of xhack xhack
    11/09/09

    In reply to Scientists Launch Study to Determine Exactly How Human Animals Should Be
    Does any of this end in me getting a pair of wings? If so, I say fuck. yes.
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    Image of Aidan_ Aidan_
    11/09/09

    @xhack: Prehensile tail for me. #yuckfactor
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    Image of Vulcan Has No Moon Vulcan Has No Moon
    11/09/09

    @Aidan_: Why not both?
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    Image of sparkyl sparkyl
    11/09/09

    In reply to Scientists Launch Study to Determine Exactly How Human Animals Should Be
    We humans turn out enough funny looking kids as it is. I can't tell you the number of times in a newborn nursery we hold up a baby and say, "Do you think he looks funny? Are his eyes weird, his ears too low, his penis too small?" The answer's generally "No, he looks like his parents." But NOW imagine those conversations!!! #yuckfactor
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    Image of If_I_Had_a_Poodle If_I_Had_a_Poodle
    11/09/09

    @sparkyl: What do you do when you do get a funny looking one? (Not tragic, just funny.) #yuckfactor
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    Image of misha trotsky misha trotsky
    11/09/09

    @If_I_Had_a_Poodle: But what if the children had my looks and your brains? #yuckfactor
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    Image of sparkyl sparkyl
    11/09/09

    @If_I_Had_a_Poodle: We hold him and cuddle him just like the beautiful cherubic ones. And tell the parents they have the sweetest baby in the nursery... #yuckfactor
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    11/09/09

    @misha trotsky: It would be able to fly and breathe fire.
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    11/09/09


    @sparkyl: Awwwwww #yuckfactor
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