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hands are rough anyway BF..called old age...LOL

that maybe true PL...never thought of it that way...

that maybe true PL...never thought of it that way...

I learned that from someone who toured one of those kind of factories one time.

I learned that all those name brand things are all made in the same factory and then they just slap diffetent labels on them. Dawn, Palmolive, Green Giant, Del Monte.

They are, same with cosmetics. Some of the old school "semi-high end" brands such a Lancome and It Cosmetics,also  high end brand YSL and Giorgio Armani Beauty are actually owned by drugstore brand L'Oreal which also owns Maybelline and Garnier.
Coty the makers of that horrible smelling drugstore lose face powder also owns Marc Jacobs and Gucci brand cosmetics. They also own drugstore brands CG and Rimmel London.
Also are private label "brands" which manufacture many products for many companies and even ingredient rights owned, which are sold to indie companies, such as Tati's Halo Beauty brand. 

On a different twist, there are food products that are the same thing but has additional ingredients, like a Hershey bar, a Mr Goodbar is a Hershey bar with peanuts, krackel is a hershey bar with rice, etc. think Milky Way and Snickers are the same thing with exception Snickers has nuts..

Cereal is similar, Kelloggs Froot Loops and Apple Jacks are the same thing different flavor, General Mill's Kix, Trix and Cocoa Puffs are the same shape as well different flavor. Not including Corn Flakes and Frosted Flakes, Rice and Cocoa Krispies, etc which are billed as same product different flavor, Mounds and Almond Joy are the same thing one has nuts.

Black & Decker and Dewalt but on a much larger scale. General Motors, Ford Lincoln Mercury, Dodge Plymouth.  Basically the big 3 each produced multiple versions of the same car. 

They recalled alot of foods...I use to have them all wrote down..

On a different twist, there are food products that are the same thing but has additional ingredients, like a Hershey bar, a Mr Goodbar is a Hershey bar with peanuts, krackel is a hershey bar with rice, etc. think Milky Way and Snickers are the same thing with exception Snickers has nuts..

Cereal is similar, Kelloggs Froot Loops and Apple Jacks are the same thing different flavor, General Mill's Kix, Trix and Cocoa Puffs are the same shape as well different flavor. Not including Corn Flakes and Frosted Flakes, Rice and Cocoa Krispies, etc which are billed as same product different flavor, Mounds and Almond Joy are the same thing one has nuts.

Now i am craving chocolate with nuts   

If one does the research, it can all be traced back to huge parent conglomerates which own the companies making brand names and store brands, all using the same base ingredients but tweaked to cater to different tastes.

Is also the same with stores, for example in US, you have Aldi's, which is a Dutch company. In Netherlands the stores are much different than in the states. They are more like a department store in Netherlands and of course sell brands not found in the states.  There are also in Europe the British Primark stores which are different in each country where they exist but also basically the same. They launched some stores in the US, in the New England states which i here are really coming for the Walmart stores there. Will likely be Primark stores all over the US in about a decade.

Still?  That was happening when i left the states nearly four yrs ago. I would find a good indie brand and research where the food is made and also from where they get their ingredients. Anything from China or anything with grain as first ingredients, forget it.

Yep, we don't buy any pet food made in China.

I woder if they had alot of recalls on food back in the 50's? I think we are just hearing about them now, which is a good thing I think. I've lost track of the gov. shut down, I wonder if the FDA is back in business for our food to be safe yet?

I have chicken dethawing now. All I eat is chicken most of the time. Hope it's safe, I'm not sick yet since the FDA shut down, yet.... Anyone else sick from chicken or any other food since the FDA shut down here?