Fish or No Fish?

[WillParkinson]

Recently at work they started serving a new orange juice and grapefruit juice. Each bottle has a fish logo on it and the grapefruit juice proudly proclaims 'Only what GOD put in it!'

If at the store and saw this would you buy it or pass it by?

[ZombieHorde]

1. I sometimes crave grapefruit juice in the summer time, I would probably buy it.

Of course you could anonymously do some immaturely crude stuff with the fish label, such as cut out the fish and place it in a urinal.

[YankeyMCC]

2. I wonder if he's made them new and improved like he did with Raspberries

http://www.theonion.com/audio/god-proclaims-raspberries-now-even-more-berrilicio,17324/

[realisticphish]

3. God put a fish in grapefruit juice?

suddenly i'm glad I drink unholy beverages

[onager]

4. I try to boycott companies that advertise Jebus.

Though if I couldn't get anything else, I'd probably buy the fish stuff and gripe about it.

Oh, another major exception is In-N-Out Burger here in California, which puts sneaky little Bible verses on their cups, burger wrappers, etc.

Their stuff is so good, I would probably sign a notarized affidavit swearing I was born again to get served.

In-N-Out is owned by a Xian family. I can only imagine what they think about the most popular edit to their bumper stickers in the Los Angeles area.

The stickers say "In-N-Out Burger" in big letters, but are often edited by wise-asses to read: In-N-Out Urge.

:rofl:

[trotsky]

7. I have a similar weakness for Chick-Fil-A, onager.

Can't get it up here in Minnesota except for weekdays at the U of Minn campus, which is a little tricky for a suburban-working old fart like me.

Similar fundie family ownership, even going so far (as you certainly know) as to be closed on Sundays.

But Gawd-damn that is a fine chicken sandwich.

[charlie]

10. Stay out of Hobby Lobby

Remember the Oral Roberts U scandal a couple years back? Where Big O's son Richard was caught living large on university funds? The owners of Hobby Lobby gave them enough money to pay off their staggering $50+ million debt and make the scandal go away. They saved ORU and Richard's ass (he's fleecing the gullible in Africa nowadays).

[trotsky]

12. No problem there.

My hobbies are supported at pet stores and MicroCenter. :)

[onager]

13. Hobby Lobby and Chick-Fil-A? I haz a geography win!

Fortunately, AFAIK neither of these businesses operate in the Los Angeles area, so I'm not even tempted. Whew!

Chick-Fil-A: I didn't even know they were in Minnesota! Thought they were regional, in the South only. Anyway, I understand your cravings - everybody in my family is nuts about that place, especially the biscuits.

I love me some junk food, but I think of Chick-Fil-A as just...OK. Maybe my taste buds are burned out.

Hobby Lobby: I confess! When I'm in South Carolina visiting family, I occasionally slink in there because of my Weird Hobby, building scale models. They usually have discount coupons. Not even the grisly looming specter of the Zombie Messiah deters me from 25% off for a plastic fix.

My local equivalent is Michael's Crafts. I can roam around in there for a long time. Their scale model selection is not great, but I always seem to find some kind of doo-dads I can adapt to my hobby.

Unfortunately, on the Interwebz the scale model selection IS great. The store is always open. And nobody can hear me scream (except the Alien)...when I click and order goofy stuff like this, from Bandai's ever-growing Gundam universe...


(Those figures are 1/35 scale, or about as tall as your finger. And their boots are SEPARATE PARTS! Damn Japanese!)

[charlie]

14. Happily, my town has Michaels and Hobby Lobby

I didn't even know Hobby Lobby was a borg colony until I pulled up on a Sunday, found it closed, and thought, uh-oh. It's next to a Super Walmart, which is boiling over every Sunday, so they were losing major mammon on purpose... and yep, the intarwebs confirmed it. And wouldn't you know it, that same Walmart has a Chick-Fil-A in its parking lot. What a blessing, competitors who'll obey the commandment, "Thou shalt not vex the Waltons. Keep the sabbath".

It's trotsky who enjoys Chick-Fil-A, BTW. Like you, I think the stuff is meh. I like chicken southern style, with a fiercely toothsome crust, boiled in industrial artery spackle.

Model kits! Man, I used to have a blast when I was a kid, saving up to buy 5 or 6 at a time, then mixing the parts to make crazy spaceships and roadsters. I don't even know why I don't do it anymore, the meditative zoning that comes with precision crafting is so soul soothing. Hmm...

[DavidDvorkin]

5. Pass it by.

[yellerpup]

6. No sale for me.

I've never met a Christian who wore his/her religion on his sleeve who wasn't a charlatan. The more you puff Jesus, the less you have to say or sell.

[marybourg]

8. I would pass it by as I do all tradespeople and stores who use

fishies in their ads (except seafood shops and aquarium suppliers, of course). :eyes:

[laconicsax]

9. I'd pass it by.

Since their god certainly did not make the product, you have no idea what's actually in it. If the label is going to contain such blatant lies, why should you believe anything else on the package? It might contain grapefruit juice, it might contain arsenic, it might contain water, high fructose corn syrup, and artificial grapefruit flavor. Who knows.

[charlie]

11. God thinks He's the Unabomber, then?

(July 2005) To date there have been reports of 15 cases of a matching strain of illness directly linked to a history of consumption of Orchid Island Juice from mid-May to June in Michigan, Ohio and Massachusetts. In addition, at least 16 other states have reported cases of Salmonella Typhimurium infection that match this specific strain. Further investigations are underway to determine if these infections are also related to these products or not.

FDA Issues Nationwide Health Alert on Orchid Island Unpasteurized Orange Juice Products

[sybylla]

15. Pass, just like I pass up the frozen hashbrowns

that have scripture all over it in my grocery store's freezer section.

Fu**-em.

I want heathen potatoes and I'm damned happy to pay more for them.