Friday, June 27, 2008

America, Not Belgium: Food Labels

This will  probably also become a returning topic on this blog: small things in daily life that remind you that you are in the U.S. and definitely not in Belgium.

One of those things are food labels and the messages they carry: from the pretty comprehensible ones like ‘organic’, ‘non-fat’, ‘calcium enriched’ and ‘zero sodium’ over the slightly more cryptic ones like ‘no trans fatty acids’ until the downright incomprehensible ones like  ‘no partially hydrogenated shortening,’ it seems like every product has to carry at least one message about how it is going to improve your life… Sometimes it’s really as if you were shopping in a pharmacy rather than in a food store.

But then one thing you cannot really say a big deal about would be fruit, right? Not really…:

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5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Cool!

pater collisilvae said...

try and find one labeled "no CO2" - MUST be out there somewhere! (suggestion: check the miniature cars department first)

Anonymous said...

Inspiratie voor een nieuwe titel is er niet gekomen maar ik vind wel dat het idd een uitdaging voor u moet worden om de meest geflipte label te vinden!

ellen said...

Zalig :D
redelijk contrast als ik zie wat der hier allemaal verkocht wordt. Ik heb nog geen benul van welk beest het zou kunnen komen, hehe

Wim said...

Voor het meest geflipte label--al dan niet met CO2--wordt gezorgd...