My DUH! moment of the day...

[pfloyd]

I have in my hands a bottled chocolate milkshake. In fact, right below the brand name is the legend, "Milk Shake."

I just happened to glance at the ingredient warning section on the bottle.
I kid you not, it reads:

CONTAINS: Milk.


For one, I certainly hope so. Else I would sue the company under false advertising.
Second... it says "Milk Shake" right on the front of the bottle. Would it not be safe to assume that there would be a least one iota of milky essence in there? Especially when the first item on the list of ingredients says rather plainly, "Milk"? When was the last time you opened up a bottle of Nestle Quik, and was surprised that it was not made from, say, fish? "What's that there? Cod flavored Quik? Yum!"

This ranks right up there with the opening instructions you now find on your everyday Hershey and Kit Kat bars. Good gods above and below, have we, as a society, become such complete and utter doorknobs that even our lizard brains can't fathom that there just might be milk in a product labelled "Milkshake?"



Here endeth the snarkiness...

Comments

[lawful-evil.livejournal.com]

I think they are requires to list all those common allergens on side...

If I recall back a decade or so... MickyD's changed their product from 'MilkShake' to Shake due to the dubious amounts of milk contained.

I'm sure some vegan company makes a product that is a 'milk shake' but contains no milk(just soy or something).

[pfloyd.livejournal.com]

That's as may be, but I still found it just plain incredulous... like the aforementioned opening instructions on a candy bar.

[more-thanblue.livejournal.com]

Sweetie... here in the UK the bags of peanuts have "Contains Nuts" on the label, just in case this may surprise you. Imagine the shock when some poor soul picks up a bag of roasted peanuts and discovers, quite accidently, that it contains nuts! *gasp* the shock! the horror!

Yeah. Humans are dumb.

[pfloyd.livejournal.com]

In this day and age, nothing surprises me... especially when the public at large cannot truly think for themselves and possibly consider that the milkshake might actually contain dairy products, or that bag of peanuts just may have (erroneously called) nuts in it... (Peanuts are actually legumes, not nuts.)
But, I digress... this was more of a rant than an actual complaint.