Day: July 16, 2011

http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/7a25aff0-af1f-11e0-bb89-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1SINookjI

July 15, 2011 11:35 pm
No future for Chicago pork belly contracts
By Gregory Meyer in New York

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Since then, the bacon business has changed, with consumers eating more year-round, requiring less need for cold storage and so less need to hedge the frozen meat for sale in summertime.

“People don’t put bellies into storage the way that they did. It’s all fresh bellies these days,” Mr Lothian said.

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ROFL!

Guess the free market moves on.

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Recently, I heard that CornPops were being discontinued.

So, of course, I bought a box before they were gone.

I remember Saturday mornings, 6 decades ago, sitting with my bowl of SurarPops and watching Andy Devine tame the West.

Plunk your magic twanger, Froggy.

Sigh

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http://mail.google.com/mail/help/intl/en/priority-inbox.html

Even if you don’t use gmail. Even if you don’t use email. Even if you don’t like yourself.

I found this little video very “fun”.

For some reason, it made me smile.

Maybe it was the music.

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