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From: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Newsgroups: net.consumers
Subject: Re: on misleading food labels
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Date: Tue, 22-Jan-85 10:20:20 EST
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I don't have any specific products to cite, but I have always been mystified
by baked goods which say in bold print on the box "100% butter".  If the
product it 100% butter, then it should be labeled "butter" and put in the
dairy case next to the oleo.

What they really mean is that 100% of the shortening/fat/whatever is butter,
and that they didn't use lard, vegetable shortening, etc.  Not exactly
mis-leading or deceptive, but odd none-the-less.
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