Essentially no ginger in Canada Dry ginger ale: let's sue!

[MillCreek]

https://www.businessinsider.com/canada-dry-sued-for-claiming-to-be-made-with-real-ginger-2018-7?utm_source=feedburner&amp%3Butm_medium=referral&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+businessinsider+%28Business+Insider%29&utm_content=FeedBurner+user+view

Less than two parts per million of ginger in Canada Dry ginger ale.  Clearly worth bushels of money.

[Fly320s]

So long as Canada Dry can prove they put any amount of real ginger in the drink, they will win.

Also, anyone dumb enough to believe advertising has no business filing a lawsuit.

[230RN]

Hell, it's not even dry.  Got 'em clean on that one.

[Scout26]

Everyone's looking to hit the Lottery....

[bedlamite]

Homeopathic ginger ale.

[French G.]

Wait until they hear this one. He's not really a doctor and there is no pepper in it. Next I suppose you're gonna tell me they took the blow out of coca cola. Now that would be Mexican coke worth stopping for at Walmart. Also, 7-up has no lithium, so just go take your Prozac.

[Perd Hapley]

Wait until they hear this one. He's not really a doctor and there is no pepper in it. Next I suppose you're gonna tell me they took the blow out of coca cola. Now that would be Mexican coke worth stopping for at Walmart. Also, 7-up has no lithium, so just go take your Prozac.

At least my root beer still has beer in it.

[MechAg94]

At least my root beer still has beer in it.

But don't you miss the roots?  (or did that name come from the movie?)

[MechAg94]

So long as Canada Dry can prove they put any amount of real ginger in the drink, they will win.

Also, anyone dumb enough to believe advertising has no business filing a lawsuit.

Yeah, they will win, but this is one of those cases where either 1) the judge should throw it out immediately, and or 2) they should win and the person who sued as well as their lawyer should be on the hook for all their legal bills. 

[HankB]

So it seems that trace amounts of a substance allow one to advertise a product as containing that substance.

Like the Betty Crocker sugar free cake mix that prominently displays "sweetened with Splenda" on the front of the package . . . but the splenda amount must be tiny, since splenda is one of the last ingredients under the "contains 2% or less of the following" part of the label. Most of the sweetening comes from maltitol, a sweetener known for having a laxative effect.

Don't know which smiley to use about this one -    or  . . . or more likely   

Next lawsuit coming up: do the hamburgers at fast food joints contain any actual ham?

[MechAg94]

So it seems that trace amounts of a substance allow one to advertise a product as containing that substance.

Like the Betty Crocker sugar free cake mix that prominently displays "sweetened with Splenda" on the front of the package . . . but the splenda amount must be tiny, since splenda is one of the last ingredients under the "contains 2% or less of the following" part of the label. Most of the sweetening comes from maltitol, a sweetener known for having a laxative effect.

Don't know which smiley to use about this one -    or  . . . or more likely   

Next lawsuit coming up: do the hamburgers at fast food joints contain any actual ham?

Haven't there already been discussions about chocolate not being in milk chocolate?

[cordex]

Haven't there already been discussions about chocolate not being in milk chocolate?

Do you mean white chocolate?

[MechAg94]

Do you mean white chocolate?

No, normal milk chocolate.  There is very little chocolate anymore.

[Mannlicher]

https://www.jsonline.com/story/money/2018/07/17/milk-dairy-farmers-take-case-against-soy-almond-milk-fda/792822002/

Dairy farmers who want the terms “soy milk” and “almond milk” banished from our lexicon may soon get their way as a federal agency plans to enforce the definition of "milk" as something that comes from a cow, not a plant.

U.S. Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Scott Gottlieb said Tuesday that he intends to implement the change over the next year or so.

The agency has long had a definition of milk as being an animal-based product, but it hasn't been enforced.

[230RN]

milk of human kindness

milkweed

milk him of every drop of cash

milking snake venom.

[Jamisjockey]

So it seems that trace amounts of a substance allow one to advertise a product as containing that substance.

Welcome to the "regulated" world of food.

[Hawkmoon]

Apparently I should sue whoever now owns B&M Baked Beans. They still sell a product labeled "Pork & Beans," but it no longer contains any salt pork. It contains pork flavor.

My biggest gripe is that the label still says "Original Pork & Beans," and I know from spending summers with my grandparents in Maine (where B&M baked beans originated) that the original recipe contained chunks of real salt pork.

[Jamisjockey]

Apparently I should sue whoever now owns B&M Baked Beans. They still sell a product labeled "Pork & Beans," but it no longer contains any salt pork. It contains pork flavor.

My biggest gripe is that the label still says "Original Pork & Beans," and I know from spending summers with my grandparents in Maine (where B&M baked beans originated) that the original recipe contained chunks of real salt pork.

The food industry is chock full of little "gotchas" like that. 

[zxcvbob]

Apparently I should sue whoever now owns B&M Baked Beans. They still sell a product labeled "Pork & Beans," but it no longer contains any salt pork. It contains pork flavor.

My biggest gripe is that the label still says "Original Pork & Beans," and I know from spending summers with my grandparents in Maine (where B&M baked beans originated) that the original recipe contained chunks of real salt pork.

You probably do have standing to sue.  What are the damages you're seeking, about $0.00?

[Hawkmoon]

You probably do have standing to sue.  What are the damages you're seeking, about $0.00?

That's direct, monetary damages. Don't overlook the massive mental anguish this has caused.

[zxcvbob]

That's direct, monetary damages. Don't overlook the massive mental anguish this has caused.

Intentional infliction of emotional distress?   

[just Warren]

Most Canada Dry isn't produced in Canada.


And yeah, pork n' beans ain't what they used to be.

[RoadKingLarry]

And yeah, pork n' beans ain't what they used to be.

Gotta grow your own to get the real thing these days.

[zxcvbob]

Gotta grow your own to get the real thing these days.

Van Camp's vegetarian-style beans.  Add your own bacon.  They are almost good without the bacon.

[Hawkmoon]

Intentional infliction of emotional distress?   

Sounds good. Counselor, add that to my complaint.