I saw a package of cookies with the lettering on the side: Granny’s Cookie Bites
How’s that for a double meaning? :eek:
And a can of salmon with this enlightening message:
CAUTION: CONTAINS SALMON
Who’d a thunk it? :rolleyes:
Post your examples.
I saw a package of cookies with the lettering on the side: Granny’s Cookie Bites
How’s that for a double meaning? :eek:
And a can of salmon with this enlightening message:
CAUTION: CONTAINS SALMON
Who’d a thunk it? :rolleyes:
Post your examples.
Not what you’re after, but there were some intentionally funy (or at least inten tionally weird) package labels.
The original packages for Screaming Yellow Zonkers were a hoot:
http://www.retroland.com/screaming-yellow-zonkers/
See here, too, although it’s tough to read:
And here:
Dr. Bronner’s Soap is infamous for this, and even got a chapter on it in Poundstone’s book Big Secrets. He was also written up in the front-page “fluff” column of The Wall Street Journal many years ago.
http://www.thegloss.com/2012/12/08/beauty/skin/dr-bronners-magic-soap-label/
Not to mention, of course, a column by the True Master:
I always liked the warning label (ON A JAR OF PEANUTS): “WARNING: May Contain peanuts and other nuts; prepared in a facility with nuts”
At least they are telling the truth.
That is at least slightly more specific than a nut warning I once saw, which read, in toto: “CONTAINS NUTS. MAY CONTAIN OTHER NUTS.”
Just about the hardest I’ve ever laughed in my whole life was upon seeing a package of Pillsbury’s Bundt Cake, “Tunnel of Fudge.”
We had (perhaps still have) a bottle of Pet Shampoo which proclaims “not tested on animals”. It seems to me, if there was ever a product that would warrant animal testing…