Boggle

[ellarien]

Dessert tonight was a fresh (well, supermarket-fresh) nectarine. It was ripe, juicy, and delicious, and it came with a little sticker proclaiming it to be "organic" and "sugar-free."

I don't know which is more disturbing to contemplate: the notion of genetically-engineered fruit with artificial sweeteners built in; the idea that ordinary produce-section fruit might be injected with sugar-water; or the idea that the American public is gullible enough to fall for a label like that.

EDIT: alternatively, I can't read. On closer inspection, the label says "Sugar Tree".

Comments

[dendrophilous]

Maybe someone moved the sticker from something else? Fruit should not be sugar-free.

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[ellarien]

Ah. I just went back to check. Not "Sugar Free" but "Sugar Tree". Sneaky, or just unfortunate?

As for the layout, I suspect a slightly dodgy mixture of absolute and relative size elements, but I don't really understand the CSS way of doing things.

[lil-shepherd.livejournal.com]

Well, if they are using 'sugar' to mean 'sucrose' (with all the lack of education that implies)...

[ellarien]

Well, it turns out I misread it: it's "Sugar Tree". I don't want to believe they did that on purpose ...