Is it nuts to assume a scoop of pistachio ice cream should contain actual pistachios? Or how about real butter in a dish of butter pecan?
Such weighty questions about a favorite summertime confection could soon be decided by the courts.
A federal judge in New York has given the go-ahead to a Long Island woman’s class action lawsuit that claims consumers are being duped by Cold Stone Creamery when they purchase certain flavors that “do not contain their represented ingredients.”
Lead plaintiff Jenna Marie Duncan purchased her serving of pistachio ice cream from a Cold Stone Creamery store in Levittown, New York, in or around July 2022. According her lawsuit, Duncan “reasonably believed that the Pistachio ice cream she purchased from defendant contained pistachio.”
I’m sure all that will happen is they’ll change the label to say “pistachio flavored ice cream” lol
That’s still a win though, because nobody will be duped into paying a premium for artificial flavoring.
A related label that pisses me off is “zero sugar” when artificial sweeteners are used. I like sparkling water, in large part because it has absolutely no sweetener of any kind in it, but sometimes in a hurry I grab one of these pieces of shit and it really pisses me off.
Zero sugar is a correct label in that case
So is “artificially sweetened”, “natural sweeteners added” or any host of other, more useful descriptors.
Product nutrition labels are not the place for “it’s technically correct” phrasing.
So is “artificially sweetened”,
That description doesn’t communicate if there is any sugar (calories) in it or not. That label would be accurate on a zero calorie or full calorie beverage.
The term you’re looking for is “unsweetened”. That tells you there’s no natural or artificial sweeteners in it.
** no actual pistachios were used for flavor.
No pistachios were harmed in the making of this ice cream.
But… did the tree scream?
I scream, ewe scream.
It’s also cold stone, so you can get a mix-in of pistachios and actually have real pistachios in your pistachio flavored ice cream.
Also: Now I wonder if the cheese cake ice cream has cheese cake in it. I usually assume everything is artificially flavored unless it’s plain chocolate or vanilla.
Vanilla is a pretty expensive spice and vanillin can be synthesized from oil or wood, you should probably assume most things vanilla flavored are artificially flavored. There is way more demand for vanilla than the amount of vanilla pods grown in the world.
It’s a decently fair complaint. Other food products have to use language to somewhat clearly differentiate between real and “flavored like” products.
KFC “Honey Sauce” comes to mind.
That still makes it sound like there’s real honey in it. Should be “Honey Flavored Sauce” IMO
100% agree. America lets a lot of crap slide that shouldn’t. The main ingredient in said “sauce” last I checked (which to be fair, was many years ago) was high fructose corn syrup.
Like the “Butter Chicken” sauce in a jar that I saw in the supermarket. Basically: “Fry chicken, pour contents of jar over it, cook ten minutes, ready!” like. With 7.5g of butter in total for four servings of butter chicken.
My Butter Chicken (Murgh Makhani) uses 100g butter for the sauce, and some Ghee for frying purposes.
Although I have seen recipes on he net which are completely devoid of butter. Why do they still call this “Butter Chicken” then?
I would never think that butter pecan ice cream would contain butter
You toast pecans in butter for several minutes to get that specific flavor. Butters a prominent ingredient and a core flavor.
You should think that butter pecan ice cream would contain butter, because it’s supposed to.
You should expect it the same way you would expect pecans, because they are both named ingredients of the flavor.
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I’m confused, are you against consumer rights? I don’t think anyone actually cares if it’s real or fake. They just want it to be on the packaging so they can make an informed choice
If you want to advertise your “Pistachio flavored confectionery” you can put whatever you want in it - if you’re calling it “Pistachio Ice Cream” I expect actual pistachios to be contributing mainly to the flavoring. I’m honestly sad we allow “X flavored” instead of forcing these shit-heels to explicitly call it out like “Artificially X flavored” but it’ll take a lot of consumer advocacy to get us back into the realm of sanity.
Are you one of those people who thinks if a bad thing is not as bad as another bad thing then it isn’t bad at all?
Because I’d personally rather be poked in the eye than stabbed in the chest, but I wouldn’t say either thing was good.
Because I’d personally rather be poked in the eye than stabbed in the chest
Instructions unclear, proceeding to stab you in the eye.
And as in pain as I am, I’m not dead like I would be if you stabbed me in the chest, so you proved my point!
Now, if you excuse me, I’m going to the emergency room.
We really need to find you a good cleric. Not sure you could afford a Heal though.
Can I have a bionic eye?
And can there be a cool sound effect when I run?
“We can rebuild him. We have the technology.”
