Dear Phil, in regards to this message to ???,.

 > ----------OATS

 > PM> Guessing here: if the OZ buck is about the same as ours, your cost for

 > > That's what we pay for Uncle Toby's or any of the other brand name  

 >  Yep, plastic bags are the standard container here.


Aha,.

 > The most expensive brand, Quaker Oats, used to come in a cardboard
box, but  > they recently switched -- going the other brands one better
[meaning worse]  > -- to a flimsy paper bag.


What the hell did they do that for?

 > And it's still the most expensive.


And the most impractical,.

 > But we don't have the huge price spread you mention between the
branded      > product and the generic product -- it is at most a 10
percent saving.


Aha,.

 > I should check the price at the bulk/ health food stores.


Good idea, have you done that lately,.

 > PM> Here's Johnson's nasty swipe at the Scots, (although it probably was

 > PM> ...Oats: "a grain which in England is generally given to
horses, but

 > > I'm sure Ambrose Bierce would have said something equally as biting in

 >  Hmm.


Hmm, indeed,.

 > I haven't looked at that in a long while.


Neither have i,.

 > =Very= cynical fellow, Bierce.


Indeed he was,.

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