Not another can! Not one! (Pringles)

[Clemenza]

1. English is NOT the official language of the US (although it should be).

2. Multilingual product info has been around since I was a kid. I'm 29, btw.

As someone else on this thread said, pick your fights wisely. This is just silly. Senator Coburn would not be proud. ;-)

[ConservativeMan55]

Can you make the connection or not?

[Keith in Iowa]

You really want to know what they are doing?

They are maximizing efficiency to provide a greater return on their investment in the production, and enhancing their profits with an eye toward maximizing shareholder value. It's capitalism, man - you got something against that?

[mtbopfuyn]

Last night there was a commercial on tv totally in spanish. I was so shocked I don't know what they were selling. It's not bad enough I have to pay for spanish channels (ok, throw in the golf channel, too) but now it's on the regular channels as well.

[Clemenza]

Being that most of Atlanta speaks Ebonics, I don't see how what you said can be true. Nobody's "forcing" the citizenry to learn other languages. Get a clue.

[ConservativeMan55]

I agree

[rdb3]

This was the first can of pringles we had bought in a long time. It will be the last.

Then there will be more for me. Pringles and Munchos. Those are my chips.

[Kokojmudd]

Are these the jalapeno flavored chips?

[.38sw]

It's marketing. It's not the government doing it. If I refused to buy anything that had instructions in several languages, I wouldn't have much of anything. I'd have to send my new washer and dry back, my new gas range, my new refrigerator, dishwasher and microwave, my Timex watch, my iPod, my clock radio, television, my computer....

[JennysCool]

I guess you don't believe in any type of slippery slope.

Well, it is true that once you've sunk to the Pringle's level of the fast food chain, it's all pretty much downhill from there.

[Inspectorette]

Heheheh - when we were visiting our daughter in Okinawa, she took us to see a highway sign: "Your recklessness driving bring about your death!"

[Clemenza]

Zot?

[Logophile]

I don't speak spanish. I speak English. I live in an English speaking country. Nuff said.

But you said this was an "alternative" list of ingredients. Wasn't there also a list in English?

By the way, I speak Spanish. Knowing Spanish has not in any way impaired my use of English. If anything, it has helped me. Perhaps you should give it a try.

[fatnotlazy]

I'm still appalled that the Moen kitchen faucet we recently installed had no words of instruction in any language - just pictures!!!

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Frustrates me too. Pictures are fine, but I'd like a little textual instruction.

I think the idea is to save money -- the company can just use pictures and not have to repeat the instructions in a dozen different languages.

[mnehring]

I guess you don't believe in any type of slippery slope.

No offense but this is the dumbest slippery slope example I've heard (not just here, this complaint has been around for hundreds of years.. you should read the history of immigrants (legal) in NYC and how the 'native' Americans (ie, Mayflower claimed legacy(sic)) were worried we would all speak Italian, etc..

[burzum]

I appreciate companies listing information on different products in Spanish. Since I am learning Spanish, it is helpful to see it in the real world.

There is nothing evil or even liberal about foreign languages. You point of view is frighteningly xenophobic.

[.38sw]

Well, it is true that once you've sunk to the Pringle's level of the fast food chain, it's all pretty much downhill from there.

Now that's the smartest thing on this thread.

[MarkeyD]

I bought a box of condoms the other day and the directions were in Esperanto.

[Inspectorette]

I remember at least 30 years ago, a commercial for toothpaste all in Spanish (and this was when I lived in Massachusetts!) "Si Mama! Con Gleem!!!"

[fatnotlazy]

Heheheh - when we were visiting our daughter in Okinawa, she took us to see a highway sign: "Your recklessness driving bring about your death!"

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LOL