Flickr user IWouldStay (Creative Commons, some rights reserved) snapped this one on a milk jug in the U.K.: 
Related, earlier (chocolate milk).
Flickr user IWouldStay (Creative Commons, some rights reserved) snapped this one on a milk jug in the U.K.:
Related, earlier (chocolate milk).
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Like the peanut butter jar that says “contains peanuts”.
I suppose if this is a comprehensive law, saying that anything containing milk must be labelled as such, it’s a pretty innocuous one. Unlike others I know.
Isn’t the UK on the Metric system? 2.272 liters (4 pints) don’t look like no metric sized bottle to me.
I wonder when the warning label will look exactly like the ingredient list. Right now the only things left off the warning label are the ingredients you can’t pronounce.
Interesting that it says “suitable for vegetarians”. If it were in the United States, some lawyer would file a class action against that company on behalf of vegans who don’t eat or drink dairy products.
Maybe UK labeling laws – despite the silliness of this particular case – are enforced better than they are here.
I reshelf all too many food products that contain some form of soy – soy oil, soy lecithin, soy whatever – that are not labeled “Warning: Contains soy (milk, wheat, peanuts, and whatever else is mandated)”.
OK, next time I’m at the grocery, I’ll pick up a package of tofu or edamame and see if it says “Warning: Contains soy”.
XMAS, It’s probably an Imperial pint; 20 oz., not 16.