In a previous post, I wrote about how to get free food by writing letters to food companies. If you want to try it out for yourself, here’s an example that can serve as kind of a template to follow:
December 31, 2009
Consumer Affairs
Sargento Foods Inc.
One Persnickety Place
Plymouth, WI 53073Dear Sargento,
Your cheese is awesome. SUPER awesome. My favorite thing by you guys is the cheese sticks. The other day, I ate like five cheese sticks in one day. My dream is to have a house made out of cheese sticks and then I would eat the house. I even wrote a poem about cheese sticks:
What food shall I eat?
If I had my pick
I’d go to the store
And buy a cheese stick.
How much shall I eat?
If I had my way
I’d stuff my big mouth
Full of cheese sticks all day.
I’ll shout from the mountains
With fervor and zeal
I want to eat cheese sticks
For every meal!Thanks again, Sargento, for making awesome cheese sticks. I love them!
Sincerely,
Jason Swett
See? It’s pretty easy. You don’t have to put a lot of thought into it and you don’t have to lie and say you had some bad experience with the product (although if you actually DO have a bad experience with the product, they really pile on the freebies). You just have to tell them you like their product and they’ll probably send you some for free. I can taste the cheese sticks already.
That poem is awesome. This letter should have gotten you all the cheese you can eat and a job as a sargento advertising rep. It sounds like something dr. suess would write if he was trying to get free cheese sticks.