On 21 Sep 2008 00:19:14 GMT, Zebee Johnstone wrote: In alt.sysadmin.recovery on Sat, 20 Sep 2008 22:29:46 +0000 (UTC) Anthony de Boer - USEnet <abuse@leftmind.net> wrote: Zebee Johnstone posted thus: ... A small extra payment for more food is portrayed as a bargain with no downsize with much encouragement to go for it. Partly it's because per-serving costs (number of
While pretending to be roadkill on the InfoBahn, <usenet@vo.id.au> scrawled: And then, later on, the chain can drop its SuperDuperSize option, knowing that at least some of its customers are now used to buying larger portions, and will continue to pay for the larger amounts even though it's no longer a dollar to upgrade, it's five dollars. As someone pointed out to me, Burger King's
In alt.sysadmin.recovery, on 16 Sep 2008 09:36:32 GMT Zebee Johnstone <zebeej@gmail.com> wrote: In alt.sysadmin.recovery on Tue, 16 Sep 2008 17:56:20 +1000 Bron Gondwana <brong@brong.net> wrote: Interesting. I've lost over 20kg through exercise and diet, and stayed stable for over 2 years now since that point (actually, I've lost an additional 2kg over that time, but only
On Wed, 17 Sep 2008 12:08:04 +0200, Jasper Janssen wrote: On Sat, 13 Sep 2008 20:25:02 GMT, "Peter H. Coffin" <hellsop@ninehells.com> wrote: On Sat, 13 Sep 2008 18:58:27 GMT, Richard Bos wrote: Olivier Galibert <galibert@pobox.com> wrote: It probably doesn't help. It's incredible how american food is sweetened compared to other countries like France. But I suspect the
In alt.sysadmin.recovery on Tue, 16 Sep 2008 17:56:20 +1000 Bron Gondwana <brong@brong.net> wrote: Interesting. I've lost over 20kg through exercise and diet, and stayed stable for over 2 years now since that point (actually, I've lost an additional 2kg over that time, but only recently, and only because I've stepped up the exercise level considerably in the past couple of months