There sure is a lot of love for Reynolds Wrap.

A few years ago I bought a box of 75 square feet of Reynolds Wrap and found that the product was defective. The foil was messed up with some kind of odd-smelling, viscous gunk. I made this discovery at 1 in the morning on July 6, 2006, though it appears I actually bought the product over a month earlier on May 31, 2006.

With a late-night dinner in the works I was irate enough about this unusable-looking foil that I felt compelled to bring the matter to the attention of the company that makes it. I tore off a swath of the foil and wrote a 1-page letter which I promptly took to a corner mailbox. I went to to an all-night grocery to buy what ended up being a roll of cheap-o brand-x crappy foil that is almost soft and thin enough to use as tissue.

Returning to my kitchen I put down a sheet of the trusty but mysteriously soiled Heavy Duty Reynolds Wrap and then put several layers of the untrusted brand-x foil on top so as to maximize the thickness of separation between the chicken and the filthy, filthy cookie sheet (it seriously is filthy).

I was annoyed about the defective roll of foil but I honestly bring these matters to the attention of the appropriate parties in the spirit of helping companies and individuals know that there are problems with their product. I am not trying to be an ass nor do I expect anything in return.

Nevertheless, in return for my bringing this matter to their attention the fine people at the Consumer Response Division of Reynolds Wrap sent me this manufacturors coupon for a free roll of Reynolds Wrap, either 75 or 200 square feet. I didn’t understand at first why they would offer an option of 75 or 200 square feet. Who wouldn’t take 200 over 75 if it’s free? I soon found that many stores don’t seem to carry the 200 ft. size and I looked at quite a few stores before finding it.

At any rate, when I say there’s a lot of love for Reynolds Wrap I am referring to the Reynolds Wrap comment board which is suddenly clocking lots of enthusiastic remarks from site visitors who randomly find the page while looking for Reynolds Wrap coupons.

I basically loath comment boards but recently opened up comments for all my receipts and other parts of this site just to see what happens. I find I am attracted to the disembodied randomness of these things. The incoherent drive-by nature of these things, however, makes divining their substance a matter of reverse-engineering.