Not another can! Not one! (Pringles)

[winodog]

That slope started slipping about 15 years ago when the US governement started printing all voting material in spanish and english. This was all planned many years ago and is moving down the road just as the elite want it too.

[ConservativeMan55]

Thats why I say the slope should be stopped. But from the looks of this forum not many people care.

[Yo-Yo]

"Ligthen up, Francis."

[sionnsar]

I don't have a problem with them listing the stuff in Spanish.

Heck, I'd probably try to read it just to expand (by however small an amount) my exceedingly limited knowledge of Spanish. But then I'm the kind of person who, when I see multilingual signs, tries to figure what corresponds to what -- drawing on my English, Scots Gaelic, German, Latin and Spanish (in that declining order, and #2 is rarely any help much beyond Irish). The best I've managed yet is over 50+% comprehension of Norwegian airline magazines. The worst is 0.0001% in Chinese (I can spot "Beijing" and "Chongkuo"). *\;-)

But that's just me. If it offends you, do register a complaint.

[Clemenza]

More about the all powerful "elite." Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain, for his name is Clemenza!

(oops, gave myself away)

[ConservativeMan55]

Ok.

/sarcasm

[Clemenza]

Don't look now, but I heard that they will start broadcasting Sooners games in Spanish! The new mascot is going to be the Frito Bandito. ;-)

[CzarNicky]

You think that's bad one day my TV was speaking nothing but Spanish. Then I realized I was tuned to the Spanish station. Funny thing was that the shows made more sense.

[Larry Lucido]

I'm tired of the Chinese restaurants around here having dishes with Chinese names. Instead of moo goo guy pan, can't they just use plain English, like "soggy noodles with meat-like stuff and MSM in it"?

[mnehring]

Thats why I say the slope should be stopped. But from the looks of this forum not many people care.

Guess what, tens of thousands of legal citizens are new immigrants who don't speak English. Everyone here knows you are trying to make this an issue about illegal immigration even though you haven't said it. The problem is that you are being blinded by political rhetoric (yes, our side has it too) to realize that there is nothing wrong with a multi lingual society. Who knows, a hundred years from now, we may be a country that speaks mostly Welsh. As long as it is a change that is brought by free choice of the citizens, then I'm fine with that. (albeit, I would rather it be Spanish or Japanese so I don't have to learn another language.)...

Choose your battles better grasshopper.

[ConservativeMan55]

"brought by free choice of the citizens"

Which citizens? Mexican-American citizens?

[sionnsar]

Try Atlanta. They are attempting to pass a law that would make you take tests in different langauages.

What different langauages would they force you to take them in? (Sgriobh rium anns a Gháidlig, ma 'se do thoil.)

I will say this: I am against providing the tests in other languages. Even more so voting materials.

[Lacroix]

What are Pringles?

[ConservativeMan55]

Multi-Cultural potatas fritas.

[ConservativeMan55]

There were 14 different languages in the news article.

[Felicity Fahrquar]

er...

They're Pringles. Pringles barely qualify as food. Icky things, no matter what one's opinion of P&G, and better left on the store shelf.

[mhking]

Let's see. Pringles is marketed in Spanish-speaking communities in North America and elsewhere. To save money on packaging, they have placed English and Spanish language information on the can.

No different from English and French language information being on the containers of some consumer goods that are sold in parts of Canada as well as the United States.

Your/Our tax dollars are not paying for this; plus it helps reduce packaging costs for the manufacturer.

If this was a government form or entity, I could certainly understand your anger and frustration. But for a can of potato chips? C'mon. Get a grip.

And finally, if it bothers you that much, don't purchase the brand; no one is pointing a gun at your head.

Just damn.

If you want on the list, FReepmail me. This IS a high-volume PING list...

[sionnsar]

Last night there was a commercial on tv totally in spanish.

Really?! But then again, I don't watch teeeveee... and up here they'd be more likely to be in canadian, eh?

[ConservativeMan55]

Well I wrote them a nice long letter about it.

[Dog Gone]

What's really irritating to me is when I'm in central america and pick up a product in the grocery store that only has English on the label.

Man, I want to start a riot right then and there.