Kraven_the_Hunter @ Kraven_the_Hunter @lemmy.dbzer0.com

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What's with all the hot dog news around here??

I was thinking maybe we could rename Florida's Prince Albert - errr Lake Okeechobee - after him instead.

Awesome, thanks!

This is good to hear! Do you have the surface keyboard and pen? I'm guessing the keyboard is probably straightforward, and there probably aren't many uses for the pen other than precision touching the screen, which is fine.

I'd say we need a Supremer Court to counter these people, but they've already made the Supremacist Court, so how do we top that?

I thought the one with the tree on it was the shame flag?

I really thought this would be an Onion article.

Yes but are these Impossible Hot Dogs made from the dregs of plants that were too disgusting to use for any other purpose? If they can't meet that high bar then I don't know if I even want them.

he might invent some sort of grant and literally give them our taxpayer dollars.

Hmmm, now where have I seen that before??

You're probably right. Part of the reason it sets me off is because I assume they're doing it on purpose. Maybe they are and I'm (partially) justified and maybe I'm attributing malice to stupidity or however that saying goes.

Fortunately this is a relatively infrequent occurrence as I've found the products I like. But god damn does it upset me when I pick up the wrong thing.

I do look for that, but sometimes I'm not paying 100% attention (the fact that I need laser focus to fucking buy water is another issue).

It also doesn't help when manufacturers use shrinkflation as an opportunity to update their packaging (is this a new product or just a smaller version of the old one?)

It ALSO doesn't help that they love to put the saccharine shit - sorry, the "artificially sweetened" - nope, not right either - the "sweetened with something that's not sugar" crap right next to the water. They want it to be healthy-by-association. It needs to be next to the sodas though, since it's a drink for people looking for an alternatively sweet product. Those of us looking for water aren't interested in it, which all adds up to making me think their marketing plan is to get people to buy it on accident.

I understand this. My point is "zero sugar" and "no sugar" are obtuse terms and much better ones exist.

Using a man-made sweetener? Call it artificially sweetened.

Using a natural sweetener other than sugar? Say so, it's not hard and also less of a misdirection than the phrasing they like to use.

So is "artificially sweetened", "natural sweeteners added" or any host of other, more useful descriptors.

Product nutrition labels are not the place for "it's technically correct" phrasing.

That's still a win though, because nobody will be duped into paying a premium for artificial flavoring.

A related label that pisses me off is "zero sugar" when artificial sweeteners are used. I like sparkling water, in large part because it has absolutely no sweetener of any kind in it, but sometimes in a hurry I grab one of these pieces of shit and it really pisses me off.

Take that you butt-hurt fart knockers.

Yes, but now it definitely does

I legit thought that this is what happened for a brief second. Then my brain said, "no they stuffed their deceased corgi and turned him into a stool". And then my brain said, "Kraven you're a moron"

I used TuneMyMusic when I switched to Amazon Music a few months ago. It worked really well. It costs $4 or $5 to subscribe for a month but it's a huge time saver.

"Something, something, Jewish space lasers."

Haha, people were soooo gullible back then.