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04-16-2017 , 10:41 PM

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2/325Falcon

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Are we going to bomb the food deserts with these?

04-16-2017 , 10:41 PM

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campfirewest

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Why not just let the poor people eat cake?

04-17-2017 , 01:10 AM

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uDevil

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If this works out, the possibilities are virtually limitless. I suggest dirt cheap air travel if you're willing to take a tranquillizer and travel in a box stacked in the cargo hold.

04-17-2017 , 01:16 AM

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AllTheCheese

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To every thought a thread.

04-17-2017 , 07:56 AM

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OmgGlutten!

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Quote:

Originally Posted by uDevil

If this works out, the possibilities are virtually limitless. I suggest dirt cheap air travel if you're willing to take a tranquillizer and travel in a box stacked in the cargo hold.

Yes please

04-17-2017 , 08:39 AM

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Kukraprout

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I'm on board if they are called Sklansky bars and have a cool catchphrase about how bland and somewhat nutritious they are.

04-17-2017 , 09:15 AM

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13ball

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Has OP considered a flavorless mush that I call rootmarm?

04-17-2017 , 11:32 AM

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bipolarbearclaw

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Why flavorless? To save money, or to punish? Are you talking like a flavorless power bar with 40% less protein?

04-17-2017 , 11:54 AM

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Zimmer4141

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Sklansky basically wants a nationwide Oliver Twist style gruel line for poor people.

04-17-2017 , 12:19 PM

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uDevil

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Are there no workhouses? Are there no prisons?

04-17-2017 , 12:28 PM

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Hamish McBagpipe

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Zimmer4141

Sklansky basically wants a nationwide Oliver Twist style gruel line for poor people.

04-17-2017 , 12:36 PM

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einbert

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Oooooh, do this one next:

I also think this idea has a lot of potential for the 2017 hellscape we call America:

You could even change up the dynamic a bit and make it liberals vs conservatives instead of criminals versus super-cops.

04-17-2017 , 01:09 PM

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FlyWf

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Quote:

Originally Posted by bipolarbearclaw

Why flavorless? To save money, or to punish? Are you talking like a flavorless power bar with 40% less protein?

I mean, maybe we could just let the free market sort this out and give the $200 billion to the hungry people directly and let them buy food. You can get an 18 pack of protein bars from Amazon for less than a buck a bar:
https://www.amazon.com/Pure-Protein-...in%2Bbars&th=1

I'm sure with economies of scale you could do even better buying wholesale.

04-17-2017 , 01:31 PM

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13ball

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04-17-2017 , 05:54 PM

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epcfast

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Should poor people be grateful if slum landlords offer them free nutritious cockroaches delivered 24-7?

Last edited by epcfast; 04-17-2017 at 06:00 PM.

04-18-2017 , 09:10 AM

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Loki

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Could a bland billionaire be made into a somewhat nutritious bar for 200 millionaires?

04-18-2017 , 09:54 AM

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Rococo

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When do we get to learn why we should care about the answer to this question?

04-18-2017 , 10:43 AM

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epcfast

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Originally Posted by Rococo

When do we get to learn why we should care about the answer to this question?

When the parrot wakes up.

04-18-2017 , 05:47 PM

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SuperUberBob

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Originally Posted by 13ball

"Hey, Deng Xiaoping died."

04-18-2017 , 06:17 PM

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2pairsof2s

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Why do they have to be bland? They could be entirely flavorless. After all, the real value is the nutrition, and flavor is merely a value added component.

Btw, the 4 billion poor people ate all of your bars for breakfast. What's for lunch?

04-18-2017 , 06:34 PM

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markksman

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Demystified ramen with 20% less flavor.

04-18-2017 , 07:18 PM

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Jbrochu

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Quote:

Originally Posted by 2pairsof2s

Why do they have to be bland? They could be entirely flavorless. After all, the real value is the somewhat nutrition, and flavor is merely a value added component.

Btw, the 4 billion poor people ate all of your bars for breakfast. What's for lunch?

04-18-2017 , 09:30 PM

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2pairsof2s

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Anyway there is little doubt that some of those dozens of different bars available in your local store are costing much less than twenty cents a bar to manufacture. I can get granola bars here in Canada for 59 cents, which is about 45 cents US retail. I doubt they cost anywhere near twenty cents each. They looked like they fit your description of bland and somewhat nutritious perfectly. They had other bars that were sort of like double size fake fig newtons and were only 89 cents so I bought them instead and they were quite tasty.

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