I signed up for the “ad free experience” on Amazon.
Picked a movie, popup says “this feature is not available ad free”. Cancelled
How is this legal? Oh yeah, Bezos was on the stage clapping with the other robber barons.
Indestructible or tough dog toys. My boy will have that in pieces, 15 minutes or less guaranteed
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I saw a TikTok of a guy saying that eggs have a code on the carton stating what farm they were from. The guy went to a grocery store and nearly every carton had the same code, regardless of advertising free-range, or no hormones.
Note: I did not verify if this was true but it wouldn’t surprise me.
“I saw a tiktok”… “I did not verify”
lol, we’re so fucked man.
This is why I tell you I didn’t verify. I don’t want you to take it for fact and to check yourself if you’re interested.
I didn’t live in the same area as the man in the video so it didn’t affect me as the laws aren’t the same where I live.
Sorry, I don’t mean that as an attack on you. Just that if you extrapolate the behavior, that’s what a ton of people are doing but seemingly no longer care if anything is verified or not.
I’m mostly just kicking at sand, yknow?
No worries, I know exactly what you mean. I feel it too.
There’s only so many times I can explain to family members that posting the phrase “I do not give Facebook permission to use my images” means nothing.
Hell, there’s a whole political party of people who believe everything they see on TV.
A “family size” bag of Doritos is not sized for a family. Or I on my own count as a family.
“Military Grade” is not the flex that civilians think it is.
Tbf, a family-sized (now party-sized) bag of Doritos does contain a day’s worth of calories (2250) for a single person. I can’t keep them in the house, they call to me.
I miss the old military surplus stores. 2/3 of the stuff was cheap crap, but every now and then you’d find something insane. I had this flat periscope, it was designed to go up through a slot on the roof of a tank. You could easily stand on it, and it wouldn’t have broken.
Cereal is worse. I used to get regular sized. Then I got family sized. Now I try to hold out for “mega sized” for myself
A “family size” bag of Doritos is not sized for a family. Or I on my own count as a family.
It’s enough for a family because the portion sizes are like 4 chips.
Military grade
This one is funny to me because the military commonly goes with the lowest bidder. So I take it to mean that “military grade” is absolute garbage made by the lowest bidder.
Not only that, but the US Military runs on state-of-the-art logistics. This means that military equipment can, and often is, incredibly high maintenance because you’re never far from a base that always has everything you need to keep it operational. In this environment, there’s no need to make anything super robust and reliable, so… they don’t.
How state-of-the-art are we talking? Well, let me introduce you to forward-deployed Burger King.
When I see “military grade”, I think “use it once to blow somethink up”
“Military grade” means “made by the cheapest contractor available, using sub-par materials, to juuuuuust meet the bare minimum requirements set by the government”.
It’s like when housing developers advertise that all of their houses are “built to code”. Congrats, building code is the bare minimum requirement for the house to be considered habitable. It needs to be up to code to be able to sell. Someone advertising that a house is “built to code” is saying “we would build this worse if we were legally allowed to do so, but the law says we weren’t allowed to cut any more corners and still pass an inspection.”
Anything you can think of if there isn’t a law that says they can’t. One big one for me is expiration dates. Aside from, say, milk, they really don’t mean much.
Former head chef who’s worked in restaurants and production kitchens here. I made food for both immediate consumption, and package and sale. Food safety regulations will differ by location, as I once worked where three different regional health authorities ovelapped, but this is generally false.
In a commercial kitchens we weren’t allowed to sell expired food. The “Best Before” date is different, since it’s related to taste/texture, determined through structured testing, best educated guesses and/or personal tasting.
We kept dated boxes of products to taste ourselves every month, but also sent products to a lab to determine if the ingredients degraded or grew enough bacteria in different storage conditions to make it dangerous to consume. One caveat is when product quality degrades faster than it becomes a health risk, sometimes by years. Or, in the case of hard candy, probably never. In that case, companies might pick the longest range of time the product’s been tested — and that’s why you might see expiry dates on things that shouldn’t go bad.
Best before dates are guidelines, expiry dates are rules.
Nice comment! TIL
I aim to teach, not to shame. I had a few cooks who thought the same thing.
I have been conditioned to think of “Free & Clear” as having no coloring or nasty scents added and then I come across this and was duped
This is such bullshit manipulative marketing, similar to when companies will put out an ad saying something like “ONLY $1.99/MONTH” in large, bold letters and then below it have tiny fine print saying “for the first month, then $420.69/month”.
“Free of dyes. Soft pear scent.”. Boom. Done. Not only is it short, but it’s clear and accurate. Almost nobody cares if it’s “clear” as long as it’s dye-free.
that’s fucking infuriating
Organic. Lol.
There are regulations around what you can call organic. Any issue you have here is probably more geared towards the laws themselves.
Who makes the regulations these days? 🤣
Sure but that is not on their radar.
How whip cream is keto because the serving size is 1/2 teaspoon (5mL) and it’s less than 1 calorie (1kcal).
LOL
Keto != Low calorie.
Generally it just means low carb as a marketing term. As a diet it’s an asinine amount of fat and whipped cream fits that bill. Especially if you can find low sugar whipped cream.
A lot of Keto “friendly” food have like 1g or 2g of carb, and a part from what you mentioned of the serving sized being unrealistic small, even if it wasn’t, they add up, if you consume a variety of this during the day you gonna exceed the maximum carb really easily.
“Organic” produce, like there could possibly be another kind
Organic means grown without lab made pesticides and fertilizers.
If the farm is NOP certified then that’s what it means and products will be labeled “USDA Organic.”
However the FDA doesn’t regulate the word “organic” so anyone can just slap the word on a product and call it a day.
“Safe and secure” when it comes to digital transactions. Everything is logged, stored, and saved somewhere where they very often have absolutely fuck all in terms of security and then all that shit is hacked or leaked or otherwise compromised. But its okay, because the government will force them to give you 1 whole year of another bullshit service that does absolutely fucking nothing to protect your data or identity.
“New and improved”. How is it both?
I don’t see an issue with this, things can be an improvement over their previous version and they would be new on release.
Yes! Yes! At most this means a minor modification of what exists.
If the innovations are truly enough to make it so different, its always marketed as a different product
Real cheese
Not so much a lie but jumping on the bandwagon. A lot of traditional products that never had gluten in them to begin with now show “Gluten Free!” on the label, as if they did something good for you rather than simply redesigning a product label.
Someone already mentioned the shared facilities thing that can lead to cross contamination. Another reason is: gluten-containing products aren’t intuitive. Soy sauce, malt vinegar, a lot of sauces and seasonings, most canned soups(where I live,) and some cheeses contain gluten.
I feel like in that case it’s more like “We now double-check this food wasn’t made in the same area as foods with gluten”. Cross-contamination can be a pita for celiacs
Companies have gotten better about that over the years, but “gluten-free” products are still sometimes made on shared equipment with wheat which means it’s unsafe for celiacs. My SO is a celiac who only buys foods that are either certified gluten-free or labeled gluten-free and not made on shared equipment.
I honestly do not trust those labels without proof
“Dust-free” cat litter.
