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| Guess What Ingredient 'Snapple Apple' Does Not Contain? | Top |
| It has the awesome, rhyming name "Snapple Apple." It has a prominent photo of a juicy, red, sliced-up apple. How can it contain absolutely no apple juice? If you look at the ingredients of Snapple Apple, you see that it consists of the following: "filtered water, sugar, pear juice, concentrate, citric acid, natural flavors, vegetable and fruit extracts (for color)." No apples. Consumerist's managing editor Ben Popken wanted to know why his bottle of Snapple Apple contained some pear juice, but no apple juice, and sent an email off to Snapple. The response Popken received from Snapple's Consumer Relations department didn't really address the seeming illogic at work here, and basically just said the company complied with "all applicable labeling regulations promulgated" by the FDA. Snapple then seemed to try to turn the tables on Popken, telling him to contact his health care provider if he had concerns about his "intake" of the product. Popken reports that the key to Snapple being able to sell a Snapple Apple that contains no apple juice lies in the phrase "juice drink" -- and specifically the word "drink:" Here's what's really going on: While something called "juice" and having pictures of fruit on... | |
| The Day's Three Burning Legal Questions | Top |
| Here are today's three burning legal questions, along with the answers provided by the blogosphere. 1) Question: A man who was apprehended by four nearby Marines (and who stabbed one of the Marines) while he was trying to steal a laptop was just brought to our hospital with two broken arms, a broken ankle, several missing teeth, possible broken ribs, multiple contusions, assorted lacerations, a broken nose and a broken jaw. What could cause such injuries? Answer: Falling off of the curb after stabbing the Marine. (Legal Antics, Wow. That must've been some curb) 2) Question: I saw your post last week on Things You Can't Do on a Plane. What about being a quadripelegic -- can you do that on a plane? Answer: Sometimes yes, sometimes no. (Reuters, Frontier apologizes to quadriplegic passenger) (via Consumerist) 3) Question: Why is my town spending $36,000 to dump all 8 million gallons of water from our reservoir? Answer: Sometimes when a drunk guy urinates in a town's reservoir, the town will drain the whole reservoir rather than "deal with the 100 people who would be unhappy that [it is] serving them pee in their water." It happens. (Associated Press, Man urinates in... | |
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