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American-in-Sweden

American product ads in Swedish

It's always so funny to hear Hasse spout off some old ad jingle in Swedish for an American product. One came up the other night when I sang the jingle for Pepsodent in English (don't remember why) and he sang the Swedish version.

ENGLISH
You'll wonder where the yellow went
When you brush your teeth with Pepsodent.

SWEDISH
Den gula hinnan det är kännt
De borstas bort med Pepsodent.

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What I did this weekend

I'm not bringing it up because it's thrilling info. :) I'm just bragging. I've had these old photo albums from the 1980's in the attic. They're the ONLY photos of my THOUSANDS of photos that I don't have digitized (I HOPE). So this weekend, I've torn apart those photo scrap books and gone through them, making the decisions for each photo - keep or toss, etc. Then I digitized the keepers, put those photos on my external hard drive with the masses, threw away the remains of the albums and - making the hand gesture indicating you're finished with a project - done and dusted! Yipee!!!!

(LOVE looking through old photos. One of those 1985 books was from my very first business trip (or trip of any kind) to Stockholm, when I had arranged to stop in Oslo for a weekend first and then take a train to Sweden. I'd kept 'samples' of the toilet paper and paper towels and other important stuff like that. :) Fun.)

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Is your honey real?

Some quotes from this article on honey from Dr. Mercola:

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In a new report by Food Safety News, more than 75 percent of the honey on American supermarket shelves may be ultra-processed—to the point that all inherent medicinal properties are completely gone—and then smuggled into the country by the barrel drum. Nearly all of this fake honey is made in China. Some of these brokers will even create bogus country of origin papers. All 60 jars of "honey" tested by FSN came back negative for pollen (including Sue Bee and Winnie the Pooh brands), which is a clear sign of ultra-processing.

Millions of pounds of honey that have been banned by the European Union are being smuggled into the U.S. from China. Much of this honey is tainted with illegal antibiotics, including chloramphenicol, which can cause DNA damage and cancer, and heavy metals like lead. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) states that any product that's been ultra-filtered and no longer contains pollen IS NOT honey. 

In their investigation, FSN discovered the following:

  • 76 percent of honey samples bought at grocery stores (such as TOP Food, Safeway, QFC, Kroger, Harris Teeter, etc.) were absent of pollen
  • 77 percent of the honey from big box stores (like Costco, Sam's Club, Walmart, and Target) were absent of pollen
  • 100 percent of the honey sampled from drug stores (like Walgreens, Rite-Aid, and CVS Pharmacy) were absent of pollen
The good news is, all of the samples from farmers markets, co-ops, and natural stores like Trader Joe's had the full, proper compliment of pollen, as did organic brands from common grocery stores. 

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