{"id":209,"date":"2006-07-10T23:54:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-11T06:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/?p=209"},"modified":"2007-07-29T13:05:10","modified_gmt":"2007-07-29T20:05:10","slug":"a-sad-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/?p=209","title":{"rendered":"a sad day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is with a sense of foreboding that I read the news about <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/business\/5166366.stm\">Kraft Foods&#8217; purchase of part of United Biscuits<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>United Biscuits make <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jaffa_Cake\">Jaffa Cakes<\/a>, the nicest biscuit (or cake?) known to man and a favourite of the Elbeno household.<\/p>\n<p>Kraft Foods is owned by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.altria.com\/\">Altria Group<\/a>, which used to be known as Philip Morris (and still acts as a parent company to all the Philip Morris offshoots). Because of this, I have not knowingly bought an Altria Group brand product in a good few years now. Unfortunately, I must accept that this list of things to avoid buying could sooner or later include Jaffa Cakes, and doubtless other United Biscuits products which I have enjoyed in the past.<\/p>\n<p>But a man must have principles, and principles are worth nothing if ones does not stick to them when tested.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is with a sense of foreboding that I read the news about Kraft Foods&#8217; purchase of part of United Biscuits. United Biscuits make Jaffa Cakes, the nicest biscuit (or cake?) known to man and a favourite of the Elbeno household. Kraft Foods is owned by the Altria Group, which&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baked-goods"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}