consumers really don’t read labelling properly.
the label that always makes me chuckle is “made with 100% REAL fruit juice” which is ridiculously deceptive
The worst one I have seen is:
Serving Bowl
made from
PLANT-BASED
Fibrehttps://www.healthychoice.com/power-bowls-classic
So, that cardboard bowl is made out of cardboard, but if you don’t look closely enough, you just ate pork.
Good morning. I wanted to actually visit that URL to pick a part their claims, but I cannot get the “plant-based” hoo-ha text to appear on my browser view.
I am however noticing that first they tell you that you’re getting “*all natural” pork as though there would be such a thing as unnatural pork.
The asterisk disclaimer reads “minimally processed with no artificial ingredients”. The mind spins to comprehend what could be an “artificial” ingredient.
So they’re basically saying processed pork.
Here’s a higher resolution image of the packaging. It’s in the bottom right corner, above the nutrition labeling.
Nice! High five for going the extra mile!
That’s hilarious. This is NOT cardboard, it’s plant-based fiber, cellulose, you know, cardboard material
It’s not cardboard, is just made from the stuff that cardboard is made out of… It’s a completely different product entirely.
Eye roll
Did you miss the sarcasm?
as though there would be such a thing as unnatural pork
They’re working on it, though I think chicken is further along
I was promised Poreef…
…A lonnnnnng fuckin’ time ago 😤
The plant-based bowl thing is on the bottom right-hand side on the box. They don’t bring up that claim in the text of the website.
The one I’ve been hearing lately, granted it’s only a claim made in podcast ads I’ve heard:
“Made from whole food -sourced ingredients”
edit: That was a hard one to hyphenate and have it remain clear, so I spaced the hyphen to put more weight on the words whole food. The phrase means made with ingredients which were ‘sourced’ from whole food
I can’t even understand that line means tbh. What does food-sourced ingredients mean, and why is whole better than partial?
They want you to feel as though you are getting whole foods. But since you’re getting ultra processed ingredients, they’re just telling you that at one point these ingredients were part of whole food. Before processing.
In a way it’s brilliant bafflegab.
Ah I see! The whole “ultra-processed food” issue hasn’t hit mainstream here in Japan yet so I wasn’t aware of what “whole food” implied. It’s kinda wild that food producers have to convince/trick us to believe that we’re being fed food.
It means the same as any other marketing mumbo jumbo.
(ʘ_ʘ)
Do most people still think juice is healthy? Haven’t kept up.
Or all the “Not treated with hormones!*” then in tiny print somewhere at the bottom it says “*the USDA does not permit the use of hormones”. Good job following the law, I guess?
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that’s exactly the point, and what they want you to believe.
the key word is “with.”
if i am making some mashed potatoes, and the recipe calls for 1 stick of butter, but i only put a teaspoon in, and substitute the rest with margarine, i can claim that the mashed potatoes were made with butter. in the case of the drink, we don’t even know which ratios they are working with.
they then add extra flowery language, like the word “real,” and “100%.”
the “100%” is doing some heavy lifting here, and is deliberately deceptive. it’s meant to trick you into believing that the whole package/container was made using nothing but juice, instead of a bunch of chemicals and substitutions.
hope this helps clear things up!
The ol’ apple trick.
Designed in California
I saw “Designed in California” on a fucking flask this week.
Don’t be
I’m not
Oh, hey, Apple does this with all of their products.
Designed in California, or something, right?
Those damn “Minky Couture” ads do the same thing - 100% designed in the US. 100% made in an Asian sweatshop.
Still not as cringe as the Zach Wilson bug control service ad that plays at the cinemas here in Utah, though.
And their products are not even edible!
Equally concerning is people are still buying Campbell’s shit salt-in-a-can.
I met this chick who bragged about what a great cook she was.
Every meal was basically pasta, rice, or meat in this crappy canned soup.
“Oh you didn’t like my red sauce pasta (tomato soup), you’re going to love my rice casserole (mushroom soup)”
Barf
The canned soups can be a good backup dish if you’re low on things, but it wouldn’t be like…a dish I’d be delighted to serve to guests. But you need food inside a human with minimum work? Chicken, rice, water, can of cream of something, spices, slap in oven and lay on the couch trying not to move.
I’m going to go ahead and disagree hard on this. I’ve had food scarcity in the past, and I’m a wonderful cook who can improvise from any ingredients.
Even at my most hungry, I would give the soup away. I would rather just cut up a piece of tomato and put it in fresh rice. Or use a couple of actual mushrooms and some powdered buttermilk if I needed creamy umami.
The soups are just salty, cooked-to-mush, food industry discard ingredients in my view.
I actually could not see how disgusting the soup was until I lost about 130 lb by cooking from scratch. When I went back to some of my old convenience foods, I spit them out in disgust.
I’m a single guy. In a tiny apartment with a shitty fridge and stove Tomatoes go bad when your apartment averages 84F all summer. Some rice, broth, cream of whatever soup, and some canned vegetables is cheap, easy, and none if it really expires. I try to eat healthy but i still have to throw away so much fresh veggies because i simply cannot eat it all by the time shit goes bad.
Also, i am so piss fucking broke that i can’t afford bame brand anything. Not that i would have been buying name brand anyway.
Hard with a shitty fridge/freezer, but if you can, I think basic frozen veggies can be priced comparably to canned, and are actually more nutritious as they get flash frozen when the nutrients are higher, and they taste better.
I can’t imagine not using canned diced tomato’s for things though. Fresh are so expensive, and when the canned ones go on sale it can be so cheap. Also so much effort saved, just tossing them into a soup/stew/chilli
Heh. When I met my wife she existed on Kraft “Dinner”, corn and Campbell’s soups. The good thing is I hate all those, so I introduced her to home cooked dishes that vary from Indian, Thai, Lebanese, Greek, etc. I’ve created a food snob now though, LOL.
On rare occasions, a Campbell’s chunky seafood chowder with spaghetti hits the spot.
I bought my fair share. It’s pretty cheap and brain-dead simple to make. You literally just heat it up.
I get it. I’m not a big fan of soup, so I haven’t purchased any in years, long before the tariff fiasco… I don’t intend on buying it again anytime soon, possibly ever. But I get why people do it.
It’s the same reason that KD is still a thing. Don’t get me wrong, I have nothing against KD, but when it comes to preparation, about the only thing simpler than KD, is frozen, soup from a can, Mr. Noodles, or something ready-to-eat.
MSG in a can.
Fuck you don’t besmirch MSG like this!
I didn’t see a Campbell’s soup that has msg. Can you tell me the ones that do?
But there’s nothing wrong with MSG, it isn’t worse for you than table salt
Edit: The ones I looked at didn’t have MSG. The chicken noodle soup definitely has it.
Which is completely fine, because there isn’t anything wrong with MSG that isn’t also wrong with table salt.They literally all do. They do not list it as MSG.
“Hidden Names For MSG And Free Glutamic Acid:
Names of ingredients that always contain processed free glutamic acid.
Glutamic Acid (E 620)2
Glutamate (E 620)
Monosodium Glutamate (E 621)
Monopotassium Glutamate (E 622)
Calcium Glutamate (E 623)
Monoammonium Glutamate (E 624)
Magnesium Glutamate (E 625)
Natrium Glutamate
Yeast Extract
Anything hydrolyzed
Any hydrolyzed protein
Calcium Caseinate
Sodium Caseinate
Yeast Food
Yeast Nutrient
Autolyzed Yeast
Gelatin
Textured Protein
Soy Protein Isolate
Whey Protein Isolate
Anything :protein
Vetsin
AjinomotoNames of ingredients that often contain or produce processed free glutamic acid
Carrageenan (E 407)
Bouillon and broth
Stock
Any flavors or flavoring
Maltodextrin
Citric acid, Citrate (E 330)
Anything ultra-pasteurized
Barley malt
Pectin (E 440)
Protease
Anything enzyme modified
Anything containing enzymes
Malt extract
Soy sauce
Soy sauce extract
Anything protein fortified
Seasonings”https://www.hungryforchange.tv/article/sneaky-names-for-msg-check-your-labels
Oh Trump hurting business? Boohoo. Do something then, like fund resistance or awareness.
Campbell’s is going to do what Campbell’s is going to do
It absolutely decimated the local economy the last time this happened.
Also that can should read 540mL pre-shrinkflation.
They’ve already done their damage. They’re not manufacturing in Canada anymore, so what more could they possibly do? We’re not buying their shit.
But if they slap a maple leaf on their logo, they must be Canadian right???
Good thing no one has been able to afford Campbell in years.
They can’t give away American made products here now. It’s absolutely hilarious.
Oh I am not fooled. Fuck Campbells.
