Posted on 11/26/2019 1:44:46 AM PST by LibWhacker
Delmonte
I remember Weemsco Tuna!
Thanks for the reminder.
It may not be everyone’s taste but that has to be one of the greatest sitcoms in TV history. It was so wrong it was right. :-)
You can tune a piano, but you can’t tune-a fish.
I worked at a Bumble Bee Seafoods (BBS) salmon cannery in Alaska four summers. Hard work but in six weeks you could make enough for a year of college. A percentage of the cannery workers just couldn’t handle the workload and got reassigned to ‘quiet spaces’ (building wooden boxes for salmon roe, etc.) and were never ‘invited’ back.
Castle and Cook decided to sell BBS my last summer there and eventually it became Bumble Bee, the company in this complaint.
I don’t eat much fish...
And that boys and girls is what happens when they start selling dolphin free tuna!!
That’s a classic!
I think Nancy also wrote a law to keep American Samoa from having the same minimum wage as the rest of the USA.
This was because Starkist is the main employer on American Samoa. It saved Starkist lots of US$ in operating cost.
Iirc her husband was a major stockholder
Class action lawsuits only ever pay the law firms involved. The public gets phony coupons.
But, but, but...
The many Milli Vanilli fans were oh so screwed, they need the phony coupons to move on with their lives.
And many attorneys tend to live high on the hog, needing piles of cash, just to carry on.
I surely hope their quality stays how it is now. They’re the only brand I like.
I grew up in Long Beach. One of our field trips (remember those?) was to the local tuna cannery—either French Sardine (StarKist) or Chicken of the Sea. The smell was horrible and it looked like maybe the worst job on earth. Put me off tuna fish.
Best Tuna brand is Costco’s Kirkland brand tuna. Very good flavor and the can is tightly packed.
Doesn’t Nancy Pelosi own a tuna canning company in Samoa???
Ah, beautiful South Naknek! Population 79.
Is that where you worked? I took immediate interest in your post because I remember Jack London (a favorite author from my childhood) complained bitterly about working in a Yukon cannery during the Gold Rush. IIRC, he claimed the cannery worked its employees 16 hours a day, six, seven days a week for ten cents a day. Must be what turned him into a flaming commie. I’m sure it was an unpleasant experience, but it wouldn’t have turned most people with any sense into leftist pimps.
My first thought when I first read this was, great, another favorite brand is going to be produced in Asia from now on. I think I’m done with it.
OTOH, I’m sure this isn’t as bad as coming out of the PRC, but Taiwan... it’s just that much closer to the PRC directly turning out something I’m gonna eat? No, thank you.
But I’ll hold back for a while, a couple of years at least, see how it goes, before I try it again, and then only in tiny quantities, here and there.
There are plenty of delicious, wholesome things being produced right here in the good old USA. Don’t have to go fishing in dubious Chinese waters for something to eat.
Thanks. I’ll check it out.
A cursory search on pelosi tuna finds a lot of articles with the MSM saying how terrible it is that the right lies about the saintly Nancy and her tuna ties. I didn’t bother to click on any of them.
Haha, they ought to ban those field trips.
Not a field trip, but my stepmom worked in a big cottage cheese factory. Her job was to go in at four or five AM and chase the carpets of cockroaches off the uncovered eight-foot vats of cheese. And then one by one pick the dead ones out individually. And shrug off the ones that had sunk down out of sight. I didn’t touch cottage cheese for forty years after that. I hope things have changed because I kind of like it and will have a little bit now and then.
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