Nanaimo bar gets Canada Post stamp, but critics question base-to-filling ratio • Hacker News Board

Re: Nanaimo bar gets Canada Post stamp, but critics question base-to-filling ratio

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Post by benj111 » Mon, Apr 15, 2019, 6:56 AM UTC

So I always thought that 'sugar pie' was a pet name for a loved one.

Apparently not [1], I guess it is also a pet name, else there's a few songs I need to re evaluate.

Ps Does North America not use the word tart. The wikipedia page describes it as a 'single-crust' pie? How do you differentiate those annoying upside down tart 'pies' consisting of a disc of pastry plonked on top?

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar_pie

Re: Nanaimo bar gets Canada Post stamp, but critics question base-to-filling ratio

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Post by dawnerd » Mon, Apr 15, 2019, 7:02 AM UTC

Kind of reminds me of the USPS using a picture of the Statue of Liberty in Vegas.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/05/arts/statue-of-liberty-st...

Re: Nanaimo bar gets Canada Post stamp, but critics question base-to-filling ratio

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Post by benj111 » Mon, Apr 15, 2019, 7:07 AM UTC

leoc wrote: post #20

Something almost but not completely unlike millionaire's shortbread ... It does seems that nanaimo bar came first, actually: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caramel_shortbread https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanaimo_bar

Unfortunately inflation and wealth inequality is leading to it being called billionaires shortbread.

Re: Nanaimo bar gets Canada Post stamp, but critics question base-to-filling ratio

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Post by Ensorceled » Mon, Apr 15, 2019, 7:25 AM UTC

sandworm101 wrote: post #13

And continuing that great stamp conspiracy of not putting the value on the stamp so i have to spend ten minutes on google trying to figure out how many i need. Eventually i give up and just plaster the envelope with stamps. They win again. By the time i next have to mail something to my great aunt ive totally forgotten about the last and repeat the cycle. I must overspend at least a dollar or two each year on this sc…

That’s not how you’re supposed to use the amazing thing that are permanent stamps. You should just take your larger packages to the post office is this is so hard on you.

Re: Nanaimo bar gets Canada Post stamp, but critics question base-to-filling ratio

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Post by rdiddly » Mon, Apr 15, 2019, 8:20 AM UTC

I've seen them looking like this in the States. Guess I can now assume those weren't quite authentic.

Re: Nanaimo bar gets Canada Post stamp, but critics question base-to-filling ratio

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Post by interfixus » Mon, Apr 15, 2019, 9:19 AM UTC

The weird and wonderful erudition one may gain on HN. Before clicking through I couldn't even parse the title. Canada, yes, the huge country we never hear about, and Post, and stamp, but who's Nanaimo, or where's the bar, and what's with its capacity for filling?

All is now clear. On to weightier if possibly less entertaining matters.

Re: Nanaimo bar gets Canada Post stamp, but critics question base-to-filling ratio

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Post by ChoGGi » Mon, Apr 15, 2019, 10:20 AM UTC

mikekchar wrote: post #9

BTW, I just want to say that if you get a chance to eat a Saskatoon berry pie: do it. I haven't had the chance for at least 20 years, unfortunately :-(

I can't say I've had the pie, but I'm a sucker for the jam.

Re: Nanaimo bar gets Canada Post stamp, but critics question base-to-filling ratio

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Post by jimktrains2 » Mon, Apr 15, 2019, 10:58 AM UTC

sandworm101 wrote: post #18

ckuhl wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I... I'm confused. They're permanent stamps. They always have the correct value.

Weight. Not all things require the same number of stamps.

Sure, but all weights require the same number or permanent or forever stamps, regardless of when said stamp was purchased. The value of the stamps are now always base postage, regardless of when said stamp was purchased; hence why they don't place the value on them: it isn't fixed.

In the us I want to say it's nominally 1 (forever) stamp per oz.

Re: Nanaimo bar gets Canada Post stamp, but critics question base-to-filling ratio

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Post by decasteve » Mon, Apr 15, 2019, 11:44 AM UTC

bhouston wrote: post #3

Hilarious. How could they get that wrong? A simple Google Image search show this representation is non typical.

Very funny. Marketing gimmick to get it wrong? More people talk about it this way.

Re: Nanaimo bar gets Canada Post stamp, but critics question base-to-filling ratio

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Post by HoochieKoo » Mon, Apr 15, 2019, 12:01 PM UTC

decasteve wrote: post #29

bhouston wrote: post #3

Hilarious. How could they get that wrong? A simple Google Image search show this representation is non typical.

Very funny. Marketing gimmick to get it wrong? More people talk about it this way.

Let’s talk about Rampart.