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Thursday, 5 June 2003
Contains ranting

Lots of products are displaying disclaimers warning people of the products' contents. Sometimes this makes sense. A Milky Way bar, for example, might be made in the same factory as a Snickers, and therefore contain traces of pressed peanut sweepings, so it's only logical to note the possibility on the wrapper.

They're starting to go a little overboard, though. For example, this morning I noticed that Karen had bought a new kind of dentifrice: Colgate Herbal White toothpaste. One would think that, with "herbal" in the name, they wouldn't have to put Contains herbal ingredients on the tube; if you don't happen to notice the 24-point type proclaiming HERBAL on the front, what good is a six-point warning going to do on the back?

However, even that isn't as ridiculous as the Baskin-Robbins we stopped at a couple of months ago. Printed on the label of every ice-cream flavor was the warning: Contains dairy products. It's ice cream! What kind of moron doesn't know that ice cream is a dairy product?

(Well, okay, there was this one person I knew who insisted that she was deathly allergic to all forms of dairy — into which category she also included mayonnaise — but that didn't stop her from eating ice cream, putting cream in her coffee, eating cookies and cakes made with butter...)

Posted by godfrey (link)
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For the record, I picked out the herbal toothpaste because it was the closest I could find to Tom's of Maine at the Mal-Wart. I'm no herbal hippie! And also, I thought it was weird, and you like werid things.
Posted by Ginevra on 5 Jun 2003 09:30
You also like weird things.

"Wait, this isn't Weird Magazine!"
Posted by Ginevra on 5 Jun 2003 09:32
Now the word weird looks weird to me.
Posted by Ginevra on 5 Jun 2003 09:33
We learned a valuable lesson from her; sugar nullifies dairy allergies.
Posted by Lunchbox on 6 Jun 2003 13:53
dentifrice

MOIRA'S BRAIN: "Denham's Dentrifice. Consider the lilies....Denham's Dentrifice. They toil not, neither do they....Denham's Dentrifice!"

Sometimes I like my brain.
Posted by M o I r A on 8 Jun 2003 01:44
Huh... I just read Fahrenheit 451...

Weeeeird.

Posted by Godfrey on 8 Jun 2003 15:12