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It's not food companies' fault that the English word “fat” has multiple meanings and is the normal word for several of them.
by TazeTSchnitzel 6y ago
It's not food companies' fault that the English word “fat” has multiple meanings and is the normal word for several of them.
- AnthonyMouse 6y agoYou don't think they're intentionally using that word for precisely that reason?
- TazeTSchnitzel 6y agoBut there's no other commonly-used word for it!
- AnthonyMouse 6y ago"Sugar free" (oops, not true) "No calories" (not true again) There are a hundred ways to say that something won't cause you to gain weight. They chose the one that sounds like it means that even though it doesn't, because it also has a different meaning which is technically true.