On Sat, 11 Jan 2003, Carl Remick wrote:
> This urgent need to ram commodities down the consumer's throat no matter
> what the peril to said consumer reminds me of Catch-22 and
> uber-entrepreneur Milo Minderbinder's frantic scheme to liquidate his
> overstock of Egyptian cotton by bringing an innovative new confection to
> market, chocolate-covered cotton.
That's hilarious, Carl. I'd completely forgotten that passage.
But it should be mentioned in passing that our obsession with thinness also has its American, puritan, and even conspicuous consumption aspects.
Michael