A few weeks ago in the Press Herald there was a news item about a local dairy. Because of some FDA inspectors, the dairy had to find a way to label their egg nog as containing eggs. Because, you know, people with egg allergens would of course think egg nog was okay to drink.
Knight headed for Staples Thursday and bought a bunch of red,
one-inch-round labels. Then he fired up his computer and
printed “WARNING Contains EGGS” twice on each one.Then he and the rest of the family spent the day cutting each
label in half and affixing the semi-circular warnings to the cap
on each bottle — being careful not to encroach on the bar code.“Someday we’re going to look back at this and laugh,” chortled
one of the workers.Replied Knight, “Yeah, but it won’t be tomorrow.”
I finally had a chance to see one of these labelled bottles, and just had to share.
Be careful, or the FDA might encroach on your local family operation as well!
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[...] Oh, and speaking of real ingredients: buy real eggnog please, the kind that comes from your local dairy and doesn’t contain thickeners or artificial stuff. You know, the kind that actually contains eggs. [...]
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