I know it is late (or early depending on time zone) but in reflecting upon your screen name, I recalled another son of Pennsylvania I knew many years ago who was also an engineer by the name of George (not going to post his last name), we met down at the AT&T microchip fabrication plant in Orlando Florida back when AT&T was marketing their 6300 PC (actually built by Olivetti) but their chip and wafer fabrication was going great guns.
Anyway, having friends in other places around Pennsylvania, George and I got along well, he was about 10 years older than I was, and we used to have a quick lunch in the company cafeteria, not much on nutrition, just whatever we could get. One day, he noticed me eating a package of those notorious cheese crackers with peanut butter spread very thinly, and he said “do you actually like those?” and I said they were ok, and as I looked at the cellophane wrapper, I noticed something I had seen before but hadn’t given much thought to, and so I said to George, “tell me, why do all of these snacks and similar products always have “Approved by Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture”? We’re in Florida!
George gave me a very serious look and said “well different states have different standards for how many particles of dirt or debris or to be honest, rat droppings can be contained inside any given snack packaging.”
I said “so Pennsylvania has the highest standards?”
George said “no, in Pennsylvania they allow you to include the whole rat.”
So for his birthday, our office had the graphics department make up an oil painting of cheese peanut butter crackers with a dead, sealed up rat inside the wrapper, George was mighty amused, and so was everyone else.
Love it. Thanks for sharing.