Archive for August 21st, 2009

Contains: Milk

Friday, August 21st, 2009
Alex Food Skunch

Last weekend I was enjoying a nice continental breakfast1 at a Holiday Inn Express.2 As people are wont to do, I inspected the carton of milk in front of me, mostly out of boredom. The ingredients list happened to catch my eye: Milk, Vitamin A, Vitamin D. And underneath that a food allergy disclaimer – Contains: Milk.

Of course it contains Milk! It IS Milk! ‘Milk’ is the single biggest word ON the carton, and it’s repeated several times! Are we really such an ignorant and litigious culture that we need this kind of horrendous intelligence-insulting CYA on a single serving carton of milk?3

And don’t even get me started on how the Feds are gonna start raiding garage sales.

  1. Truth be told I was trying simply to hold it together after a case of food poisoning, but whatever. ↩
  2. And just to forestall that question, yes I did make a number of extremely intelligent decisions later that day. ↩
  3. I know, I know, don’t answer that. ↩

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