I mean, fresh bread and cheese is delicious. Stale bread, not so much. You're aware that stale just means old?
Yes. I found it appealing because I identified with Harry and wanted to share an experience with him. Why you hate on me.
Because Harry was forced into eating that by the Dursleys! Why would you want to eat something Harry didn't even want to eat? If you had an obsession with treacle or coffee cake or one of the many other delights Harry enjoyed at Hogwarts are at the Weasley's, I'd understand your motives better!
Quite honestly, I question the need to drink milk. I think it's another marketing gimmick that pushes parents to feed kids with milk. I'm yet to come across a toddler/kid who actually loves drinking milk. Most of them hate it and that's possibly for a reason. When our daughter was born, we spoke to a lactation consultant who explained how infants wean away from breast milk naturally. She explained that it's not cow's…
I can assure you, children in communist countries were pushed to drink milk - without any profit motive involved. I think this has more to do with 'common knowledge' of what's healthy. It's also certainly better to have your kid drinking milk, over sugar waters, like sodas, most fruit juices...
Yep it's way better to have kids drink milk than sodas and even bottled fruit juices.
You make a fair point, yet overlook the fact that corruption is often how business works in these countries. You might not be aware that in a country like China it is common for foreign companies to be penalized for "corruption" that is widely known to be standard fare in local industry. It is how things get done.
> yet overlook the fact that corruption is often how business works in these countries That seems interesting. I'd be interested to know whether that's true and for which specific countries. How much of it is powerful MNCs utilizing their power to put the right politician/legislator in place, similar to how lobbying works in the US. I'm also surprised you use the strong words "overlook" and "fact". I wonder if you're…
It's far more systematic and normal in developing countries. In the US you wouldn't have to bribe city officials to get a factory built, for instance. I've an acquaintance who is doing just that and construction has stopped because they refused to pay off the right people. Later on, if you do something that the authorities don't like, they take you down for corruption. I don't have a hollywood view of China; I've lived there for some time.
Yes. I found it appealing because I identified with Harry and wanted to share an experience with him. Why you hate on me.
Because Harry was forced into eating that by the Dursleys! Why would you want to eat something Harry didn't even want to eat? If you had an obsession with treacle or coffee cake or one of the many other delights Harry enjoyed at Hogwarts are at the Weasley's, I'd understand your motives better!
I definitely wanted the other things too, such as the moving chocolate frogs, but sadly they aren't as available as stale bread and cheese.