Not-so-fat-free milk
Posted by Don Packett under Uncategorized on December 6 2006 at 2:56 PM
I know, it’s a measly 0,4g, but still, it’s false advertising.
Why couldn’t they say Almost, or Practically Fat-Free milk. Hell, they could feature it as ONLY 0,4g FAT PER 100ml, SO REALLY JUST 10ml OF FAT IN YOUR AVERAGE GLASS.
But hey, that’s just me.
December 6th, 2006 at 6:18 pm
How about a Douglas Adams style ‘Almost exactly but not quite entirely fat free milk’?
December 6th, 2006 at 6:23 pm
Actually, labelling standards do get on my tits. For example, in the UK, the can lable Pork Sausages as ’100% Pork’ as long as all the pork in the sausage is 100% Pork. What that means in practice is that your ’100% Pork Sausage’ may only have (and often does only have) 5% actual Pork in it. All the rest is breadcrumbs.
December 6th, 2006 at 10:47 pm
Yeah, they’ve been having inserts on “The F Word” (Gordon Ramsay, BBC Food, Monday 20h00).
They had one on the pork sausages (it wasn’t the breadcrumbs that worried me, it was the bits and pieces of pig that no-one wants to eat).
They also had one on “low-fat” and “fat-free.” Guess what? They can say fat-free and load it with sugar! Which is what most of them do with biscuits, etc.