I was permanently banned from the Reddit sub without recourse for posting this despite not breaking any rules. I’m slowly making the migration over thanks to such encouragement.
I was permanently banned from the Reddit sub without recourse for posting this despite not breaking any rules. I’m slowly making the migration over thanks to such encouragement.
Over here in the Netherlands, where Big Farma has more power than Big Oil, I’ve seen milk in standard milk cartons being labeled as “milk drink” because they retroactively added some vitamins. There are protected food labels, for sure, but adding the right keyword that indicates that you’re not buying what you’d expect from the packaging is a legal solution.
Same with the “vegetarian butcher”, a fake meat company that uses misspellings of meat cuts (“kipstuckjes” meaning something like “chicken byts”) getting away with using real meat names because the label “vegatarian” that’s part of their brand image is supposed to tell you that it’s not real meat.
I would’ve expected EU food regulations to block this stuff but in practice companies get away with it in practice.
Ugh, Kraft singles (individually wrapped pieces of “cheese”) are labeled something like “dairy product” because they use vegetable oil.
And make sure you’re buying “ice cream” and not “frozen dairy product”. Ice Cream has a minimum cream/milk requirement that some brands fall below. Might as well call it “ice milk, etc.”.
Or “iced dessert”. <25% milkfat is the line, I think.
That just reminded me that there’s something in the store here in the US sold as Chicken Wyngz, because they don’t contain any chicken wing meat.