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That they have to tell the truth in the ingredients list does not give them a license to lie everywhere else. How could a competitor benefit from using an hone
by chuckee 5y ago
That they have to tell the truth in the ingredients list does not give them a license to lie everywhere else.
How could a competitor benefit from using an honest quantity of real strawberries, if the only place they can effectively advertise that is in the tiny ingredients list that nobody reads?
- ceejayoz 5y ago> How could a competitor benefit from using an honest quantity of real strawberries... "Filling made from 100% real strawberries!" Already a common marketing construction, even. Apple juice is often sold with this bit of puffery.
- handrous 5y agoThen pop-tarts would just add some misleadingly similar but not technically wrong crap to theirs, like "100% pure natural syrup" on bottles that are definitely intended to trick you into thinking they're maple syrup, but aren't, which is a thing I've seen in the wild (Cracker Barrel syrup). Food labelling laws need an overhaul. And some serious teeth.
- josho 5y agoYes, thank you for proving my point. That statement says the strawberries are 100% real, it does nothing to exclude the addition of other ingredients or artificial red flavoring added elsewhere. You may think I'm being asinine, but I'm not. I've been fooled by that language before.