Beatrice

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• Anonus

  2014-12-27 05:36:46

  I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat

  My father hated ConAgra (he called it "con-air-uh") because he associated them strongly with GMOs, which he hated
• Princess Alice

  2014-12-27 05:38:17

  You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022

  This is my grandmother's name!
• Calica

  2014-12-27 05:38:35

  Sup bitches, witches, Haters, and trolls.

  something something umineko
• lee4hmz

  2014-12-27 05:38:57

  ⚠ THIS MACHINE KILLS FASCISTS

  Before they expanded into packaged food, they were a major off-brand flour maker (as the Nebraska Consolidated Mills), so I'm sure they used a lot of grain, GMO or otherwise...
• Calica

  2014-12-27 05:39:46

  Sup bitches, witches, Haters, and trolls.

  i think conagra makes the frozen chicken pot pies i used to eat a bunch of
• Anonus

  2014-12-27 05:42:42

  I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat

  Are they Banquet brand? (Wikipedia says that ConAgra acquired those not via Beatrice, but when RCA - yeah, that RCA - unloaded the brand in 1980)
• Calica

  2014-12-27 05:44:33

  Sup bitches, witches, Haters, and trolls.

  they're marie calendar or w/e
• Anonus

  2014-12-27 05:47:14 edited 2014-12-27 05:47:31

  I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat

  Marie Callender's

  
  

  ConAgra makes those, though they don't own the name or logo
• lee4hmz

  2014-12-27 05:50:59

  ⚠ THIS MACHINE KILLS FASCISTS

  in other news, RCA was in the food business 

  
  

  too bad they couldn't call them TV dinners...Swanson already called dibs, although they never registered "TV dinner" (that exact wording) as a trademark
• Anonus

  2014-12-27 06:00:49

  I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat

  ironically, the most sensible of their little diversifications away from electronics and broadcasting was Random House, which they owned from 1965 until 1980, when they sold it to Advance Publications (it was sold on to Bertelsmann in 1998, and contributed to the Penguin Random House joint venture with Pearson last year)

  
  

  it's funny how some of these portfolio makeups anticipate Time Warner, which made the diversified media clusterfuck cool for a while
• Imipolex G

  2014-12-27 06:16:56

  Touch the cow. Do it now.
  

  Dante
• Tachyon

  2014-12-27 13:46:17

  ^{i will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch}
  

  bluebird