Wilson wrote:
> On 06/24/10 2:18 PM, sometime in the recent past Nancy2 posted this:
>> On Jun 24, 12:57 pm, > wrote:
>>> On 06/23/10 4:33 PM, sometime in the recent past Doug Freyburger
>>> posted this:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> Wilson wrote:
>>>
>>>>> But in the "INGREDIENTS" section in fine print, under 'natural
>>>>> flavors,' it
>>>>> lists CHICKEN! And a little further down it lists CHICKEN FAT. WTF?
>>>
>>>> So they don't taste as good as adding bacon fat would make them. ;^)
>>>
>>>>> 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.
>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> '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.
>>>
>>> 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.
> Did you even read my post? You know, the one at the top, just before the
> ones that start with '' that wasn't snipped by the first reader.
>
> One shouldn't suspect animal products in potato chips. Simple as it gets.
>

Maybe not. But if one is concerned about such things, one should
read the label, IMO anyway.

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Jean B.