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calvinmorrison | on: Mars Bar from 1991 found – and it's 20g bigger than today's
not to mention "Bac'n Bits" which my wife picked up as a salad topping which contains NO bacon, and is simply colored crispy soy bits with smoke flavor. Someone aught to arrest the manufacturer

Also in big letters "OLIVE OIL" with barely legible "mixed with 90% sunflower seed, canola and other oils"

square_usual | parent | next
Brother I don't know what to tell you. Chick'n, Bac'n, Be'ef etc. are well-known vegan susbtitutes for the pun'd meats. Most of them explicitly say they're vegan on the box. That's not shrinkflation, you just didn't read the package.
calvinmorrison | root | parent
My Brother in Christ I don't know why anyone would assume Bac'n bits are not made of Bacon...

I am reading the container it says

Bac'n Pieces BACON FLAVORED BITS Great Bacon Flavor! artificially flavored

shrx | root | parent
There's no fruit in Froot Loops.

There's no crab in Krab sticks.

There's no cream in Krispy Kreme.

There's no vanilla in Nilla Wafers.

There's no mayonnaise in Just Mayo.

There's no lemon in Country Time Lemonade mix.

There are no truffles in most truffle oil.

There's no Wasabia japonica in most of wasabi.

calvinmorrison | root | parent
and when I am king, each of those involved will be given their Just Deserts (no desert will be received)
red-iron-pine | root | parent
then what will be received, m'lord?
Broken_Hippo | parent | next
To be fair, "Bac'n Bits" have been made of soy for decades - IIRC, they have always been. That's not them being cheap - they were designed that way. You just didn't realize. A lot of brands are similar - not all are vegetarian or vegan, but many are.
nemo | parent | next
I've been vegetarian a long time, I remember eating Bac'n Bits in the 1980s since they didn't actually have any meat in them.
dogsgobork | parent | next
I remember picking up something at the grocery store that featured a large "No High Fructose Corn Syrup" claim on the front. The ingredients on the back listed "corn syrup" which fulfilled the letter of the claim, but not the spirit I would say.
jandrewrogers | root | parent
Corn syrup is fructose-free. What do you want them to put on the label? People avoid HFCS for the fructose in it. Corn syrup is glucose.

Corn syrup is one of the only plant-derived industrial-scale sweeteners that isn't substantially fructose. HFCS is made by adding fructose to it so it can be used as a substitute for high-fructose sweeteners like sugar, honey, fruit juice, maple syrup, etc.

vel0city | parent
If you see a bottle saying "OLIVE OIL" and its actually a mix of sunflower, canola, or other oils in small print that's a product illegal to be sold in the US. It has to be very clearly labeled its a mix.

If its labeled as olive oil it has to be just oil from olives. The "extra virgin" and related labels don't carry any real weight here in the US though. I do wish we'd enforce labeling standards on stuff like EVOO, maybe also require actual country of origin for that particular bottle instead of allowing them to list it may come from practically every olive oil producing country.

Please name and shame the product, and report it to the USDA.

kevin_thibedeau | root | parent
The usual trick is "made with OLIVE OIL".
vel0city | root | parent
If its a usual trick one should be able to find some usual examples. I've never encountered a bottle of oil in the US suggesting its olive oil when its really a blend. Maybe I've encountered a bottle that had a picture of an olive in the background along with other vegetables, but never something really trying to suggest its "olive oil". They almost always just have generic vegetables on them or soybeans or whatever. Can you share an example with me?
calvinmorrison | root | parent
Oh you gotta start shopping at the discount marts.
vel0city | root | parent
I do quite often, and have been for decades. Along with shopping at foreign/"world" grocery stores, higher end grocery stores, etc. Across several different US markets over the many years.

Once again, got any actual examples of this supposedly incredibly common thing?

calvinmorrison | root | parent
yes literally heres from my local market. 20% olive oil yet the main oil is in very light (its even harder to see in real life with how the eye works at a store), and then in big letters OLIVE... yeah this is a great example!
vel0city | root | parent
....got anything more than a text description of the product that happens to leave off any actual descriptions? Got a brand name? A variety name? What store sold it? No? Huh weird.

Man they now make almost all olive oil from crude oil! Look, I've got a bottle here, says 100% PURE EXTRA ULTRA VIRGIN OLIVE OIL* and then you look at the fine print on this bottle and it says "LOL ACTUALLY 100% USED MOTOR OIL GOTCHA!!" This is how all the bottles at every supermarket in my unspecified city is like!

calvinmorrison | root | parent
https://images.cdn.shoprite.com/detail/00895507000857_1
vel0city | root | parent
You're confused the "Violi Mediterranean Blend Italian Sunflower & Extra Virgin Olive Oil" isn't purely olive oil? Really?

To be honest though, I've never come across this. Apparently its sold at HEB.

Its also kind of crazy it took this many replies for someone to actually link a real product they're talking about.

Either way, I still feel like this isn't breaking my standard. Its pretty obvious from the packaging what it is. "I've never encountered a bottle of oil in the US suggesting its olive oil when its really a blend". Its not hiding its a blend at all. Its on the face of the bottle, announcing its a blend is in an even bigger font than "OLIVE OIL". The person I replied to said the fact it was a blend was hardly legible. It was immediately obvious to me this was a blend.

calvinmorrison | root | parent | next
its worse in person, in the grey LED lights of a grocery store. its very easy to miss.
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