Was it Marie Antoinette who said, "Let them eat PUDDING?"

Some day after the apocalypse, I shall be sitting under the stars around a campfire with my great grandchildren. As the stories are spun, I will take great joy in watching their wild-eyed wonder as I recount to them...The Legend of Pudding Guy! http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif

What? Pudding Guy is not Time's Person of the Year? http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/wink.gif Who was responsible for issuing the news releases on this one?

Congratulations to the Pudding Guy. Now I know why my source dried up in Northern California. I was doing the same plan and was hoping to get 440,000 miles for a pair of first class One World tickets on AA. I was cruising along and had 1,750 puddings when my outlet store stopped getting the cases. I did get 115,000 miles from the Healthy Choice deal and fed a couple of schools with pudding snacks. What a deal. I went through the same anxiety of wondering if HC would honor the pudding UPCs and felt I got the last laugh when all those miles ended up in my accounts. Great story to see from the Pudding Guy.

My hat is off to Pudding Guy!
When and where is the FF Hall of Fame being created? I nominate PG as first inductee.

Pudding Guy would be my second nomination....our host Randy Petersen would be first.

Pudding Guy, you are truly an inspiration. You really think outside the box--part of your civil engineering training, no doubt.

I've been off these boards for a while and to come back and read your story was such a treat. I'm sitting here at Kinko's laughing my head off and attracting some stares, but I don't care. You've made my day. Thanks.

O.K., here's my proposal: forget George W. Bush, Al Gore, and anyone else in the upcoming election....Pudding Guy for President, Satori for Vice-President, and a concurrent/automatic appointment of Randy Peterson for Secretary of Transportation!

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Yikes! What's the deal? I must admit I thought about registering it for fun, but couldn't think of any good reason to do so. Sounds like somebody figured out an angle I missed...

www.puddingguy.com,

"Vancouver Sun" Article posted on the site.
"Pudding Guy Article"

Hooray! Healthy Choice finally recovered from Pudding Guy's feat of consumerism. I returned home from the 500 K LatinPass trip today to find a receipt for a registered letter that contained the 29,500 miles in American certificates I sent off for October 7. I just read through the old posts and saw Pudding Guy mapped out a 200 mile zone for Grocery Outlets. It is a good thing I live 280 miles from Pudding Guy or I wouldn't have 120,000 miles from the Healthy Choice deal. What a great couple of weeks. Finally got the OneWorld bonus posted from American, just got the Healthy Choice certs, and just did a LatinPass tour. Only waiting for 2000 more United miles from a December Healthy Choice mailing and that program will be completed and posted. Be seeing you in the air!

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Congrats satori! What did you buy? For the record, my shopping was actually limited to a 200-mile stretch between Davis and Fresno. I didn't even reach the Grocery Outlet in Yuba City.

By the way, and for the rest of you awaiting certificates: I spoke with the man in charge of promotions for Healthy Choice and he asked me to pass along the "bear with us" message if I heard any complaints about the long delays. He said they got over two times as many UPCs as they expected. Plus, (surprise surprise) the vast majority came in right at the end. See, the delays really weren't my fault! It seems my 1.25 million were a drop in the bucket for this promotion.

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Pudding Guy - I purchased about 1,800 chocolate fudge puddings at $.25 ea. and maybe 100 or so other items. I only had 500 UPCs sent during the double bonus for 50,000 miles on United and TWA. (I topped off TWA balances at even 60,000 miles and transferred the miles to 120,000 Hilton points for 10 free hotel nights on point stretchers.) I received 34,500 American miles from an August mailing of pudding after the kids in the summer school class I taught ate all the pudding they could stomach. I received 2,500 more American miles in November (which was supposed to be 59 certificates and somehow was processed as 5 certs and the reason for such a long delay in getting the miles I just received). 29,500 American miles today. And I am now waiting for the last 2,000 with United. So I guess that is actually 118,500 miles. Students in the afterschool program just finished the last pudding last week (I had already peeled off the UPC stickers of course.) And I have to say that during a pudding eating contest last summer one 6th grade boy ate 9 puddings out of the cups in 60 seconds.