I’ve been meaning to post this yogurt bit for a while, but I’ve since then found another (somewhat funny) food label find, so… figured I’d put them together and let anyone else throw in their own strangeness.
First up, yogurt (that I get for my kids). I usually get my kids Whole Milk Plain Stonyfield yogurt (for a weekend breakfast, but they don’t eat keto anyway). Recently, they did some kind of shift so that now what I only find the “Whole Milk Smooth And Creamy” (rather than it saying whole milk plain). Well, whatever, I guess that’s fine. Around the time of this shift, they also introduced some lines with “25% Less sugar than before” labels in the corner. Well, that sounds good. Oddly, they had two versions of “Whole Milk Smooth And Creamy”, one with that little bit in the corner, and one without, but otherwise everything was identical.
Here is the one that was equivalent mostly to the old “plain” label and didn’t have the 25% less:
So I checked the label to see how things were going with the reduction. Well, turns out “25% Less” means “100% more” to them:
As you can see, total carbs also more than doubled, and fat, potassium, and vitamins decreased a bit. So… I get the one that doesn’t have “25% less sugar” for them.
Should have taken a picture of this one, but was checking the label of a bag of frozen riced cauliflower earlier this week (first time I had found it, as I don’t usually get frozen vegetables), and I found it had a Total Carb count of 3, dietary fiber count of 2, and sugars count of 2. Well, something seems off about that.
I know these things are rounded, but still a bit funny. There’s an old programmer joke about 2 + 2 = 5 for very high values of 2, but I haven’t heard a 2 + 2 = 3 variation.