On Jun 24, 12:57*pm, Wilson > wrote:
> On 06/23/10 4:33 PM, sometime in the recent past Doug Freyburger posted this:
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> > Wilson wrote:
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> >> But in the "INGREDIENTS" section in fine print, under 'natural flavors,' it
> >> lists CHICKEN! And a little further down it lists CHICKEN FAT. WTF?
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> > So they don't taste as good as adding bacon fat would make them. *;^)
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> >> I'm not even a little bit vegan or even a tad vegetarian, but the only
> >> warning of sorts says 'Contains Soy, Milk, and Wheat Ingredients.' But I
> >> never expected to find CHICKEN products in what one might mistake for a
> >> potato chip.
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> > Those warnings are because a lot of people have food intolerances known
> > or unknown. *Who has a chicken intolerance? *The only meat intolerance
> > I've ever heard of is one friend who gets symptoms from eating pork but
> > no other type of meat.
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> > As long as it doesn't say vegan or vegitarian there's no reason to
> > expect that it is. *The word "barbecue" definitely gives an association
> > with meat.
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> My point has nothing to do with warnings. It has to do with expectations.
> When I eat something that is specifically made to look like something it
> isn't and gets placed on store shelves right along side that which it's
> trying to look like, it becomes deceptive and I don't like that.
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> 'Barbecue' might conjure up 'meat' for you, but it means a style of cooking
> to me which might also infer flavors. It doesn't mean 'meat' to me. In fact,
> damn little of what is written on products means what it would appear to.
> The word 'Natural' is case in point.
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> I didn't buy these, but they were in the snack basket at a conference I
> attended. It wasn't until later that I found that it contained animal
> flavorings or chicken fat.
>
> It becomes as silly as McDonald's defense 'that we never claimed our French
> Fries were vegetarian.'
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I don't get your complaint - the subject of your post doesn't say
"vegan" or "vegetarian" was promised by the package....did you even
read the ingredients?

N.