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Last several years, complaints have been registered [largely online] about Planter's dry roast peanuts.  Longtime buyers saying flavor is wrong, rancid, lower-grade [smaller] nuts.   Coincides with Planters being bought out by Kraft, the WCI of packaged foods.  Their 'French onion dip'...

2006 Corolla:  In diffuse/squinty daylight, the instrument cluster is a black hole.  Can't see the speedo.  Almost passed a cop.   A switch should force those lights on and the manual obliquely alludes to it but nothing happens.  The lights work correctly at night.   Anyone have this car...

Those prices were really getting up there.  Wish the catalog shots had dates. What would be the year of these machines?

Not a foodcourt menu item.    Rather, sis gave me a digital bloodpressure monitor 4 years ago.  Relion, a WM house brand, in the $20-30 range.  Other night the balloon that inflates the cuff popped.  Asked Amazon and Ebay, no deal.  These are specific to the box they plug into.   Called the...

If you watch commercial TV, you are beseiged by these ads for 'car repair' insurance.  "Car Shield"™ is one but not the only.  Not that my 35yo Toyota qualifies, but I looked briefly into the genre.   I'd say disregard the come-on claims.  Like much TV advertising, the BS quotient is high. ...

These come up for discussion periodically.  The LTV dishwasher is very googleable if you're interested.  Link is to a new-in-box from 2014.  Doesn't offer to sell it. https://retrorenovation.com/2014/07/02/1950s-ling-temco-nos-eye-level-automatic-dishwasher/

Sorry for short notice, just saw it myself. George Lucas' first theatrical film THX1138 is on Turner Classic @ 9:45 central tonight/Saturday 11/21. Warner wasn't thrilled: "What the blazes is THIS?" and didn't distribute or promote it widely. If they had only known. As long as there was...

I recently underwent a couple weeks of tooth pain/sensitivity and found 2 effective treatments that work in less than 20min and last for hours.   Background data: This tooth lost a filling some time back and is now hollow.  I'm arranging to have it canaled and capped, but couldn't wait for...

A washer without knobs?  How futurizmick!   What year was this?  BD or DD?  How did it go over in the marketplace?  And in the repair shop?   Thanks.

1990 rent house came with these Kenmores.  This panel design.  What was the year sold, pls?  Thinking ~1986?

For those approaching Medicare age:   You will see a great many ads for 800-number Medicare registration/benefit businesses.  DO NOT CALL THEM.  #1, they are intentionally misleading as to potential benefits for which relatively few qualify.  They make it sound like all you have to do is call...

I'm one of those who always wants to know 'why'.  Here's a 'why' we've all experienced in home technology, though long since retired.  Why Beta/VHS looks pretty OK until you try to copy it, then it looks like a half cup of brown poopoo got stirred in.   All small format video records luminance...

Watch yourself around sunflower seeds.  If there's enough of them, they can kill you.   This lady fell in a vat of them and sank to the bottom like they were quicksand.  By the time she was rescued, she could not be revived...

That I recall, kids in 1955 did not wear old man pants halfway up their ribcage.  I'd have to look again but I don't think the Little Rascals did either.  Where do ad agencies get these ideas?

Boy would I have been pixxed if I hadn't copied the whole thing before trying the suggested 'login'.   Timeout and login would have dumped an extensive, intricate post.  Shouldn't have timed out in the first place; was in the middle of preview/format/preview, made a small change (space bar)...

Bit of history in those abbrvs.  The ABC ad says 'division of AMC' and dates itself 1960.  Where was Kelvinator?  When did the Altorfers bail out?  A quick summary of this swaparound would be interesting if one had a few mins to tap it out, thanks.

What's your Amazon experience?   After 60-some years of hands-on shopping, I was skeptical.  Started with something easy: books.  (So did Bezos.)  Real comfortable with them now.  Might even say "cozy".  Nothing has gone wrong with merchandise or service.    I find that one does need to be...

Veteran of the cola wars and Duck & Cover, I remember the whole shebang.  Only recently discovered what happened to 'real' coke, when, how, and why I drink Pepsi now.   Coke used to taste delightful.  I had flings with DrPepper and RC but always came back to Coke.  Until that fateful April in...

Whataburger (southern states mostly) has introduced a "limited time" breakfast burger and it's the legendary party in your mouth.    Starts with the 'junior' size beef and bun, which is everyone else's 'standard' size.  Then builds bacon, [real] egg, cheese and hashbrowns inside!   Eat as...

Title sounds like a contradiction doesn't it?  Unknown how many here buy µwave food or would admit if they did.  I can cook pritdang well but don't always want to be bothered, especially cleaning up.  This is something would take me months (if not years) of disappointing results to make well...