This is just silly.

[palsgraf_polka]

For $2, you can buy small amounts of specific spices to put in the recipe on the back.

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[palsgraf-polka.livejournal.com]

You can always freeze the spices to extend freshness. That little packet of crappy spices is $2!

I'm not saying the marketing isn't brilliant, BTW, but that it's a total waste of money and really environmentally unfriendly.

[iron-chef-gein.livejournal.com]

Freezing spices deleteriously affects their essential oils (which, similarly, is why unground coffee beans should not be frozen). As to the financial issue, shouldn't we applaud every effort to keep currency moving in this alleged period of recovery? If the obviously witless consumers of McCormick's bland and dessicated twigs don't spend their money on this nonsense, alternate purchases would likely be far less innocuous, i.e., crystal meth and child pornography. Is that the kind of world you want to live in, Aem? Is it?! Finally, as the ecohostile packaging ... as I am about to posit to Mr. Blaque, there may be some good in our proliferation of so many carcinogens. Our species has pretty much stopped evolving since the last major ice age, and without the introduction of a vast and exotic array of possible mutagens, we will soon become stultified in our own mediocrity.

Buy more pre-packaged, pre-portioned seasonings!!!

[palsgraf-polka.livejournal.com]

I had no idea! My mother buys herbs and spices in bulk from this gourmet place and keeps them in the freezer. I always thought that was fine. Thanks for the FYI.

[iron-chef-gein.livejournal.com]

Okay for herbs, not for spices. Alton agrees.