marcos@sdchem.UUCP (David A. Pearlman) (09/08/86)
In the latest edition of Time magazine, there is an advertisement by Sanka wherein they announce a new contest. If you can tell them how many coffee beans (to within 50) are used, on average, to produce a 13 ounce can of ground Sanka, you win *12* cans of the stuff. There is no limit on the number of entries you can submit. Limit one winning entry per household/family. There are no purchase requirements. Does anyone out there in net-land have any good guesses they'd like to share with the rest of us? Entries should be sent to: "Spill the Beans" Contest P.O. Box 5317 Kankakee, IL 60902 Enter as often as you want. Guess must be printed on a 3 x 5 inch card and sent by first class mail to the above address. Contest ends February 28,1987. Typical restrictions (no employees of General Foods, etc.) apply. David ("Dr. DAP") Pearlman
alang@masscomp.UUCP (Alan Groupe) (09/11/86)
Why not buy a couple of ounces of whole been coffee and count how many beans you get. Then just bracket this answer by +- 50 and 100.
king@kestrel.ARPA (Dick King) (09/16/86)
From: marcos@sdchem.UUCP (David A. Pearlman) Newsgroups: net.consumers,net.misc Date: 8 Sep 86 17:07:30 GMT Reply-To: marcos@sdchem.UUCP (David A. Pearlman) Keywords: Just answer a simple (?) question correctly & U win! In the latest edition of Time magazine, there is an advertisement by Sanka wherein they announce a new contest. If you can tell them how many coffee beans (to within 50) are used, on average, to produce a 13 ounce can of ground Sanka, you win *12* cans of the stuff. There is no limit on the number of entries you can submit. Limit one winning entry per household/family. There are no purchase requirements. Does anyone out there in net-land have any good guesses they'd like to share with the rest of us? Entries should be sent to: "Spill the Beans" Contest P.O. Box 5317 Kankakee, IL 60902 Enter as often as you want. Guess must be printed on a 3 x 5 inch card and sent by first class mail to the above address. Contest ends February 28,1987. Typical restrictions (no employees of General Foods, etc.) apply. David ("Dr. DAP") Pearlman I don't drink coffee, so I won't bother, but how hard would it be to count 1/2 ounce of beans and multiply by 26? Am I missing something? -dick
jin@hropus.UUCP (Jerry Natowitz) (09/16/86)
> I don't drink coffee, so I won't bother, but how hard would it be to > count 1/2 ounce of beans and multiply by 26? Am I missing something? > > -dick Coffee beans vary greatly in their weight dependent on the variety of the bean and how it was roasted. -- Jerry Natowitz (HASA - A division) Bell Labs HR 2A-214 201-615-5178 (no CORNET) ihnp4!houxm!hropus!jin or ihnp4!opus!jin Isn't it interesting how the beautiful little red flower in the forest becomes so ugly when you discover it's a candy wrapper.