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“Creamy” skim milk, and the skinny on H-E-B

Posted By Matt Bramanti On 8th September 2005 @ 00:24 In Uncategorized | 14 Comments

I noticed the following words on my bottle of milk this evening:

Creamy & Delicious

It’s skim milk, dammit. If my skim milk is creamy, the milk-skimming machine is not performing its intended function.

The milk in question is branded “MooTopia.” The Mongoloid dumbasses good folks at H-E-B [1] claim it’s far superior to standard [2] divinely ordained milk. Quoth H-E-B:

Compared to traditional whole milk, H-E-B’s MooTopia features 60 percent less sugar, 35 percent more calcium, 75 percent more protein, 4 grams of carbs, is enhanced with vitamins A and D and lactose free.

Pretty impressive for something you squeeze out of a four-pack of teats. Unfortunately, selling precision-engineered dairy products is the only thing H-E-B is good at.

In addition to tempting the Lord, commissioning horribly written press releases and parking 18-wheelers on my route home from work, H-E-B operates a [3] large chain of crappy supermarkets. The executives at H-E-B (the [4] B stands for Butt, seriously) have devised a unique business model, combining the following elements:

  • Bad store layout featuring offset aisles, so you have to make two 90-degree turns to stay in an aisle;
  • An array of products narrow enough to make an East Berliner feel right at home;
  • Shiftless, apathetic employees;
  • Shopping carts built in such a way that my feet hit the underside of the cart with every stride;
  • Lots of dirt and clutter; and
  • Enraged customers

H-E-B’s site proclaims that the company is celebrating its [5] 100th anniversary. I urge H-E-B’s management to mark the occasion by ceasing operations immediately and turning the location nearest me into something more pleasant, like a chemical weapons depot, hog farm or pentitentiary. I appreciate the company’s [6] philanthropy, but the executives could do a lot more for the community by leaving it. I doubt I’ll ever enter an H-E-B store again without criminal intent.

I hope someone at H-E-B reads this post and communicates my concerns to the brass. Ordinarily I’d fill out a comment card, but my friendly neighborhood H-E-B location’s comment cards are printed exclusively in Spanish.

Cabrones.


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[1] claim it’s far superior: http://64.233.187.104/search?q=cache:wgdvjzToMPIJ:www.texaspress.com/pressreleas
es/mootopia0904.htm

[2] divinely ordained: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%201:25;&version=9;
[3] large chain: http://www.heb.com/welcome/index.jsp
[4] B stands for Butt: http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/HH/dhh1.html
[5] 100th anniversary: http://www.heb.com/100th/index.jsp
[6] philanthropy: http://www.heb.com/aboutHEB/HH.jsp

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