#9
Date: Sun, 18 May 2003 21:14:53 EDT
Subject: Seven Seas Salad Dressing -- Russian
To: rlaramee "at" yahoo.com
I am writing to you, hoping you could help. I have been to numerous food
stores and cannot find Russian dressing (Seven Seas). Can you please tell me
where they might be sold. Any thought as to why I am having such major
difficulty? Your help is appreciated a whole lot. Thanks!
Jackie
Bananas619 "at" aol.com
response: Dear Jackie,
I called on a little help here in order to answer your question(s).
Luckily, my call was answered by my brother Tom.
You'll find he tracked down some very helpful information for you
in what follows below. (Thanks Tom!)
-cheers, bob
Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 09:19:30 -0700
To: Robert S Laramee rlaramee-yahoo.com, Mike D Laramee mdlaramee-yahoo.com
From: Tom Laramee laramee-pobox.com
Subject: Re: Fwd: Seven Seas Salad Dressing -- Russian
hey Guys:
it looks like Seven Seas[TM] salad dressing is a product of the Kraft
Corporation:
http://www.nutribase.com/dfm/630.htm
(By the way, i keyed in the following search into Google:
+"Seven Seas" +"salad dressing"
...and Bob's "World's Oldest Salad Dressing" page came up #1!)
Anyways, a trip to Kraft's home page:
http://www.kraftfoods.com/
...and a click on "Product Finder Shop" for those "hard to find" items...
..there's a "Condiments & Salad Dressings" item in the left-hand
navigation ... which has a specific item for "Seven Seas", and,
(whoops-a-daisey!) Russian dressing is nowhere to be found!
(this *cannot* be good)
however, there is a Russian salad dressing under the "Kraft Salad
Dressing" link in the navigation, at the very bottom:
http://www.netgrocer.com/
i suggest BANANAS 619 contact Kraft directly and ask them
if Seven Seas Russian was simply discontinued from the
product line, or whether it became part of the extensive line of
fine Kraft-brand style salad dressing offerings.
on the Kraftfoods.com page, under "Contact Us", there's a "Product
Questions" link ... so that's probably a great place to begin.
--tom
#10
Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 09:33:29 -0700
To: Robert S Laramee rlaramee "at" yahoo.com, Mike D Laramee mdlaramee "at" yahoo.com
From: Tom Laramee laramee "at" pobox.com
Subject: Re: Fwd: Seven Seas Salad Dressing -- Russian
here's my "big picture" question:
how odd/peculiar is it that someone would come across the
World's Oldest Salad Dressing page on the Turnpike, see
that the "featured" item is a bottle of Russian dressing
from 1976, and then conclude that the author of the page
would know where to obtain a [much] more recent bottle
of said product?
i mean, *i'd* be worried that the answer might be something
like:
dude!! my bottle of Russian dressing is 27 friggin
years old ... maybe YOU can tell ME where to
find some salad dressing from this century.
(there are many permutations to this [potential] answer,
but you get the idea...)
:-)
response:
i've been wondering this for awhile myself.
i think this is the 4th email i've received where someone has asked
me where they can buy the stuff.
i have one very weak theory. It goes like this:
Someone looks at the World's Oldest Salad Dressing
web page without really reading it.
Then they figure that i am advertising or even selling bottles
of Russian Seven Seas Salad dressing.
i think this can happen when someone does not interpret the phrase
"World's Oldest Salad Dressing" too literally.
Perhaps it can be interpreted as "The World's Oldest Name Brand
of Salad Dressing" or "The Longest Salad Dressing on the Market".
But not literally "The World's Oldest Bottle/Instance of Salad Dressing".
Like maybe the company in charge of Heinz ketschup could advertise
"World's Oldest Ketschup" meaning
"We've been selling it longer than any other brand of ketschup."
and not
"We've been holding onto a bottle for 100 years." ;-)
Two weak points are that: (1) the viewer does not look
at the pictures very carefully, they don't make very
good "advertisements" and (2) they have read the
web page carefully enough to find my email address.
-cheers, bob
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