As Snopes demonstrates, the oft-told tale of the 27,000-word cabbage-sale regulation is an urban legend. But Stuart Buck notes a nine-year FDA battle over “whether ‘peanut butter’ should be 87.5% or 90% peanuts” where the hearings took up 7,736 pages of transcript. (“The Buck Stops Here”, Dec. 31, citing Corn Products Co. v. Department of Health, Education & Welfare, 427 F.2d 511, 513 (3d Cir. 1970)).