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Selling It.(humorous advertising and product labels)(Humor)(Column)
Blue Crab Bay Co.'s Crab Cake Kit offers "Tastes and Traditions of the Chesapeake." Elsewhere on the label: "If tastebuds could describe the Chesapeake Bay region, the celebrated crab cake would sum up its pleasures.... Treat yourself to this Chesapeake Bay delicacy! "But an asterisk after the ingredient "handpicked white crabmeat" leads you to this note: "Crabmeat is a product of Thailand."
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This just in ...
This shocking message appears atop boxes of Arm & Hammer Super Scoop Baking Soda Clumping Litter. Next thing you know, they'll tell us it's safe to use birdseed around birds.
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Huh?
The verbiage indicated above, referencing a possible markdown (with or without actual sales) and pertaining to product items at a Kohl's store, is incomprehensible. Or, as a reader asks, "Is it on sale or what?"
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[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] If someone tells...they've been to Chesapeake Bay, you can be just...means boat and on Chesapeake Bay all plank and frame...several pound nets in Chesapeake Bay, Maryland's Potomac...