# Funny labeling on products **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 1, 2014, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-labeling-on-products/677665 "2014-01-01T23:30:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2014, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-labeling-on-products/677665/1 "2014-01-01T23:30:59Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2014, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-labeling-on-products/677665/2 "2014-01-02T00:26:47Z")
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: > [@](#): > > Original packages of Screaming Yellow Zonkers were black, something very unusual in food marketing. Furthermore, they employed the talents of Allan Katz, a noted advertising copywriter and humorist whose later projects would include such television hits as All in the Family, Laugh-In, M_A_S\*H and The Mary Tyler Moore Show. In 1970, he was hired by Lincoln Snacks to bring some humor to their packaging, and for his efforts, won numerous awards. Much of what was written on the boxes bordered on the absurd, such as information on how to wash them, or advice on how to tell if the box was upright or not: [http://www.retroland.com/screaming-yellow-zonkers/](http://www.retroland.com/screaming-yellow-zonkers/) See here, too, although it’s tough to read: > **[From the Snack Aisle: Screaming Yellow Zonkers](http://gbnfgroceries.blogspot.com/2012/04/from-snack-aisle-screaming-yellow.html)** > > Product: Screaming Yellow Zonkers Company: Lincoln Foods Years: 1969-2007 Sometimes in life, you are aware of certain things without ev... And here: [http://superitch.com/?p=6015](http://superitch.com/?p=6015) 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://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images;\_ylt=A0oG7j22scRSpwoAWgRXNyoA;\_ylu=X3oDMTB0dW8wOGdlBHNlYwNzYwRjb2xvA2FjMgR2dGlkA1NNRTI2Ml8x?\_adv\_prop=image&fr=yfp-t-901&va=Dr.+Bronner+soap+label](http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images;_ylt=A0oG7j22scRSpwoAWgRXNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTB0dW8wOGdlBHNlYwNzYwRjb2xvA2FjMgR2dGlkA1NNRTI2Ml8x?_adv_prop=image&fr=yfp-t-901&va=Dr.+Bronner+soap+label) [http://www.thegloss.com/2012/12/08/beauty/skin/dr-bronners-magic-soap-label/](http://www.thegloss.com/2012/12/08/beauty/skin/dr-bronners-magic-soap-label/) > **[Dr. Bronner’s crazy-ass Magic Soap labels](https://www.adweek.com/creativity/dr-bronner-s-crazy-ass-magic-soap-labels-18606/)** > > Maybe you’ve seen these before: the wacky labels on Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soaps. (Click the image to enlarge.) This is what you get when your product packaging is designed by a philosopher who spent time in mental hospitals: labels stuffed to the gills... Not to mention, of course, a column by the True Master: > **[Why the weird religious ravings on Dr. Bronner’s soap?](https://www.straightdope.com/21342071/why-the-weird-religious-ravings-on-dr-bronner-s-soap)** ---
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2014, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-labeling-on-products/677665/3 "2014-01-02T02:05:48Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2014, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-labeling-on-products/677665/4 "2014-01-02T12:01:14Z")
> [@ralph124c](#): > > 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.” 😕 Edit: [Thought I’d mentioned that before](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=8217601). ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2014, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-labeling-on-products/677665/5 "2014-01-02T19:32:45Z")
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.” ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2014, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-labeling-on-products/677665/6 "2014-01-02T20:23:56Z")
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…