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Someone:
Wait until the OP discovers kosher/halal/ital labeling. Some people want to be advertised to, the market decided it was too big to ignore so it ended up on the front of the packet rather than hidden in a footnote on the rear.

nightfire:

--- Quote from: MikeK on May 23, 2022, 11:46:03 pm ---
--- Quote from: SiliconWizard on May 23, 2022, 05:36:34 pm ---Of course one of the most common is added sugar in just about everything. Do people naturally expect significant amounts of sugar in salty food? Yet it's there. But the list is endless.
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One thing I never expected to have sugar added was packaged bacon.  Totally surprised me when I saw it recently.  (I don't think I've looked at the ingredients before).  So I bought the one without sugar added and guess what?....It tastes like bacon!  I'm wondering if the sugar is added to balance the salty taste.

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Sugar is a natural taste intensifier, and can help (by drawing some water) with drying bacon.
Yes, bad world, as sugar is not considered something you have (legally) to declare for its taste intensifying abilities, so a producer could claim that it is "free of artificial intensifiers"

CatalinaWOW:

--- Quote from: free_electron on May 23, 2022, 05:08:49 am ---I was munching on a bag of chips. Ingredients : Potato , safflower oil , salt.
In big bold lettering on the front of the package : Gluten free
Of course it's gluten free. it doesn't contain any wheat or other grains that contain glutenin.

 :palm:

They might as well put things like "Does not contain elephants" or "Comes without steering wheel"

what's next ?
A bag of salad that says "Vegan friendly" ?
A bag of rice that says "No cows inside" ?

post your marketing bullshittery gripes below. i'm curious to see what other bullshittery is out there.

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The absurd marketing may be somewhat different than you think.  One of my kids friends has real and extreme gluten intolerance.  She can have a severe reaction from something like potato chips which nominally doesn't have gluten, but which has been processed in a facility which processes other gluten containing foods, or commonly, on the same process and packaging machines which processed another non-gluten free product.  For her there is a real and critical difference between a product which is truly gluten free and one which has no nominal gluten containing ingredients.  She literally has to call the production facilities for each product she eats and find what they mean by gluten free.  As you can imagine such conversations are not high on most producers priority list so this is a painful process.

Since gluten free is currently a fad, many products in the latter category are labeled gluten free.  The bullshittery is claiming a product is gluten free when technically it is low gluten content.  A more useful and honest label would never say gluten free, but would say guaranteed less than X ppm gluten.

There are peanut allergy sufferers who have similar issues.

Ground_Loop:
I saw this disclaimer in an advertisement for legal services. A close paraphrase:  Not licensed to practice law in Montana, Iowa, Tennessee, Oregon, Maine, Florida, South Carolina, Delaware, Vermont, Arizona, or any other state.  My assumption is that they didn't think anyone would read the whole sentence. 

free_electron:
just saw a package of cheese .. "contain milk and milk products"  no shit sherlock ! who'd have thought that that was even a remote possibility ? 

Now i've probably offended the politically correct lactose intolerant people. note : i'm not making fun of , nor denying the existence of lactose intolerant people. i know several personally. I can't imagine living a life without being able to enjoy an ice-cream( a real ice-cream made with eggs, cream, sugar and vanilla. none of that soy milk , guar gum , ground-up beetles vanilla flavor crap.) or yoghurt without having the trots for four days.

I'm just wondering why the hell a packet of cheese needs a label that says "contains milk". isn't that obvious ? its cheese ! And before you cry "what about plant based or soy based?". THAT AIN'T CHEESE ! that's a substitute.

Which is another one of the things i wonder about. "we need to eat plant based stuff. soy based bayon , beyond burger , tofy shaped like a t-bone, including a fake piece of bone... i can get that you don't like eating animals. fully understood. but why does it need to be made to LOOK LIKE MEAT ? I don't have my steak mashed up to look like a block of tofu or extruded to look like soybean sprouts. have a head of lettuce. it's actually made from processed pork chops.



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