Anyone else think there is something strange with the nutrition label on my roommate’s Advent calendar? (and not just that there is a nutrition label on an Advent calendar!)
Advent Calendar Nutrition Label
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-Tofer
Well, let’s see:
- There are 190 calories per half-year serving (12 pages)
- Advent calendars are loaded with fat.
- Advent calendars are not a significant source of vitamins.
- That said, advent calendars are still a nice light snack.
Someone wasn’t thinking when they wrote that, were they? :smack: Why didn’t they give info on a single piece, since it’s meant to be eaten once a day for 24 days?! Though by my math the calories from one would be neglible. Still…
That’s the one that made me wonder. Granted, I’ve been known to eat a good portion of one serving in a sitting, but I wasn’t exactly following the Advent Calendar Rules…
-Tofer
It states that a serving size is 12 pieces and that there are 2 servings per container, thus it is intended to be eaten over the course of two days, or eaten once by two people.
Wait, we’re supposed to SHARE our chocolates? What the hell kind of Christmas tradition is THAT? I want all 24 for me me me me ME!
Another Advent Calendar Head Scratcher. (No link or pic available).
My nieces (and parents) are driving to my parents’ house on Hammer Day.
Which day is that?
(Wednesday of this week, but there’s no logical reason why it’s hammer day).
The Googles do nothing. What the hell is Hammer Day?
Was the calendar imported (like from Germany)?
If so, could be that their nutrition label regs are different.
Otherwise, ich habe kein Klu. 
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Do you happen to have a photo of the entire package, rather than the label, alone? I am having a bit of trouble figuring out where “E n j o y C o” (enjoy Coke®?) would appear on a calendar.
Hammer Day is the day on the Advent calendar marked with a hammer. There is no connection to December 20th, no reason why an Advent Calendar need have a hammer. Except, our Advent calendar always did have one, and now it belongs to my brother so my nieces can enjoy it.
The advent calendar in question is a large felt Christmas tree, with a grid at the bottom featuring the numbers 1-25. Each day someone moves an ornament from a box at the bottom and hangs it on the tree. This year, the hammer was on December 20, and I’m sure my brother or his wife told my almost 4 year old niece that they would be traveling on Hammer Day as somewhat of a joke, mixed with Hammer day being something concrete for her to grasp.
Wow. Shows how long it’s been since I’ve been a kid – and that I obviously haven’t any. I’d completely forgotten what an advent calendar is. Chocolates, one per day. So, yes … a serving size of 12 does seem odd. Maybe they intend for you to save the whole calendar 'til the 24th, then gorge yourself on horrible simulated chocolate.
They must have some sort of weight allowance that defines what a “serving size” is. Those pieces are usually pretty darn small, so maybe individually they don’t have a way to measure the nutritional value.
I always find it amusing anyway that they have nutritional labels on candy. They should just have a label that says, “hey, nothing in here is any good for you at all…enjoy!”
Advent calendars are mammals.
Okay, am I the only one puzzled about the missing 4g of fat? There’s 7 g of Saturated fat, and 11 per serving. Can’t be trans fats; they’s banned, after all. So, where are the other four grams of fat?
The FDA has strict guidelines about what constitutes a proper “serving size.” They wouldn’t take the context into consideration, just the nutrition content for the chocolates (or whatever they are). You would find the same information if you bought the chocolates in a bag. This is so, for example, Reisen, can’t say, “Our serving size is also one” and change the nutrition information to make it look like there’s a lot less fat than there really is.
Having never seen an advent calendar that had anything to do with any sort of food or with tools I just wanted to say that absolutely nothing in this thread makes any sense at all to me.
… and yet, a serving of ice cream is still 1/2 a cup…
Unsaturated fat.
Trans-fats are banned?
Everywhere?
I read a story about (I think) New York (?) banning them, but not a total US-wide ban? Not this fast?
Or maybe I missed it.
Wouldn’t be surprised. :rolleyes:
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