It used to be illegal…. They don’t enforce that kind of stuff anymore
Used to be able to sue anything calling themselves “meat” or “milk” etc. if they weren’t, because it caused damage to the actual meat and milk industry…
"Butter flavored butter" is a falsification. This is run of the mill cheap table syrup with 'butter flavor' that someone fabricated. You can see the syrup in the container on the edge. The funniest part is that the container is half-consumed, so this was someone posting/faking this for "omg look at these ingredients" of something they bought and ate. Which means the only purpose of this was to generate rage from retards on the internet.
Now, as for the original product - uh, nobody is being deceived. Like, the ingredients are right there. And for all the whining, you all act like the very same shelf with this product doesn't have pure maple syrup sold right next to it.
It's not like maple syrup is 'good' for you either, it's distilled pure fucking sugar. Diabetics don't eat that shit either because it's a massive glycemic bomb on your system. If you're a health puritan you wouldn't be eating any of it. Just because it's shit pissed out of "muh natural tree" doesn't mean it's 'healthy'.
False advertising, in general, should be much more strict in my opinion. I also don't think you should be able to make natural foods out of imitation slop.
> "Butter flavored butter" is a falsification.
Looking at it now with scrutiny, yes, I can see this is false. Why is butter in syrup form, and why is it amber colored like maple syrup?
However, the thousand *"I can't believe it's not butter!"* commercials I saw growing up is proof of concept. Fake butter has been big business for a long time and you can find plenty of it at the super market.
The rest of your drivel is exactly that. I never claimed maple syrup isn't actually sold, or that it's good for you, or that natural things might inherently be bad or good.
I know you're kind of the "food" guy around here, but I seriously glanced at this and shot from the hip off a false advertisement vibe I got. Given the present times and place this was posted, I didn't think anyone would burn me too hard.
My guess is that it was actually done for a laugh, and not to quote "*generate rage from retards on the internet."*
Thanks, by the way.
But I have a serious problem with false advertising in general. I always have. I also think things should be as pure and true to source as possible, so that also irritated me.
>However, the thousand "I can't believe it's not butter!" commercials I saw growing up is proof of concept. Fake butter has been big business for a long time and you can find plenty of it at the super market.
That's... a terrible example, man. You said it yourself, the tagline outright announced that it was, in fact, *not* butter. I have never once seen *anything* labeled 'butter' that contained margarine instead.
Yes, you know me as the "food" guy, it's because of the important things to care about in the world right now, the food puritan shit is like #8,238 on the list in order of critical issues, overwhelmingly because this is something you have utterly limitless control over in your own life.
I would love to see HFCS banned, I'd love to see a ton more regulation, and definitely clearer labeling and advertising restrictions, but there's far more pressing issues. The reason is because I have total, absolute control, and really, what other people eat very much doesn't affect me. I have more options at the grocery store than I could imagine. I can even get that disgusting peanut butter you have to swirl the oil in to (yes, it's the most pure peanut butter you can get, but god is it fucking gross).
This place gets angrier about what someone eats than it does whether or not they haven't stepped foot in a gym or run more than a tenth of a mile in years and is something I love to point out - this whole issue is fabulously overblown.
You should be angrier that "P.E." functionally *doesn't exist in school* anymore and I've never seen a single post about it.
> The irony of this is they literally say in the tagline it is not butter. There was no deception. That might be the worst example you could find.
Deception or not, my point with this example was about fake butter. But if I'm being honest I still don't think you should be able to sell "butter flavored spray or spread". It's fucking gross.
And come on. You know as well as I that's a fucking jewish lawyer language trick when they say *"I can't believe it's NOT real butter"*. Done both for advertising effect, and heeb lawyer coverage. *"We can say butter 50 times and show butter, but because we have the NOT in there, we're golden!"*
Tiresome small hat language drivel conjured up specifically to sell bullshit like this.
I put butter on my boiled vegetables, because vegetables don't contain enough calories and I want to get my calories from animal fat rather than sugar. I'm not trying to eliminate sugar from my diet; I enjoy fruit, even thought it has lots of fructose. It is just that in the UK it is hard to dodge sugar in food, so I take easy wins, like butter on vegetables, hoping that some of my calories won't come from sugar.
I'm shocked by people making a yellow spread from sugar. I'm even more shocked that they get to call it butter.
Are you shocked that it's a total fabrication, because you can literally see the *syrup* in the container on the right edge of the picture? It's a photoshop job.
I mean just read that ingredient label. Not a single thing in there is capable of creating a product that resembles butter. 98% of the ingredients are water and corn syrup - that makes a sticky highly-viscous fluid.
You are always genuinely best-served by thinking *everything* on the internet is a fucking lie, and 'everything' includes everything people posted on this forum too.
Holy fuck this is the most (((American))) thing i've ever seen