Oh I thought that was because of the Triangle K mark for kosher products.
It’s called “replacement” because it’s replacing whatever was in there originally.
Maybe Country Crock does not qualify as either butter or margarine, sort of like the way Ratio Dairy Snack product, which says it’s keto-friendly, cannot be called yogurt? (I haven’t tried it; I’ve heard it’s OK.)
I’ve also seen it described as “breakfast syrup.”
Thank you for that. I love the border where chemistry & physics abut. My chemistry is so impoverished. If I ever get gumption, that’s where I’ll spend it first.
If you subscribe to aerospace industry magazines (AKA trade press) you’ll see ads where the only possible target market is legislators on the Defense Appropriation Committee. ISTM it’d be cheaper to just hand them large envelopes small yachts full of cash than to buy stupid ads seen by those few and the rest of the teeming millions of impotent folks in the biz like me.
Speaking as an ad guy: their target market is likely people who already recognize their brand, and know what they do. Advertising in that venue, for those brands, is about reinforcing top-of-mind awareness, reminding your target about you, and (hopefully) tying in some goodwill with a successful sports team.
Then again, yes, it’s possible that there’s some fool marketing exec (or CEO) who has more money than sense, and just wants to have their brand be seen there.
For a good long part of my life I would go to Wrigley Field to watch the Chicago Cubs play baseball and there was a sign for Torco in the outfield. No one I ever asked knew what it was. But there it was for a long, long time.
I am not sure if this is a joke or not.
The different marks are called hechshers. It’s pronounced hesh err. The most reliable is the U in an O. That is the symbol of The Union Of Orthdox Rabbis. There are legitimate disputes over some items. A lot of American organizations hold that gelatin made from animal bones is no longer a meat product, and is kosher even if the animal it came from was not.
There are also a few organizations with hechshers who are essentially lying whores. Pay their fee, and they will certify any product.
There are a few vegetarian restaurants in Chinatown that are proudly certified kosher.
Here is a link to a variety of hechsers used in the US.
Does anyone here remember the margarine that WAS dyed pink or blue, aimed at children? Yeah, even homeless shelters didn’t want it, and a lot of it ended up getting sold or even given to pig farmers.
ISTR that “Head On” had a bit of a counterirritant property, which did relieve pain for some people. They later came out with other commercials.
Hell, Wendy’s has labeled it’s Frosty a “frozen dairy dessert” for something like half a century now. According to something on the Internet, " In order, Wendy’s Frostys contain milk, sugar, corn syrup, cream, whey, nonfat dry milk, cocoa, guar gum, mono and diglycerides, cellulose gum, natural flavor, carrageenan, calcium sulfate, sodium citrate, dextrose, and vitamin A palmitate."
I’ll have two!
One of my best friends from college was an electrical engineering major; after he graduated, he went to work at Data General, a now-defunct minicomputer manufacturer.
A couple of years after we’d graduated, and I was living in Chicago, I was watching a Chicago Bulls game on TV (on the Chicago cable sports network of that time), and an ad for a Data General product ran. I (a marketing person) wondered, “why the hell would they bother buying ad space on a basketball game? There can’t be anyone who’s seeing this who would ever buy one of those!”
I called my friend. He laughed, and said, “ohh, I know exactly what happened there. Someone in our sales department is trying to make a sale to one guy, whom he knows lives in Chicago, and is a Bulls fan. They ran that ad so that that one guy would see it.”
An earlier version of that sign read, “TORCO - The Quiet Giant - Oil Supplier to Industry.” So, likely a good example of “if you know the name, you’re in our target; if you don’t know the name, we don’t sell to you anyway.”
Google gave me the answer. It’s a line of high-end motor oils, used in racecars and the like.
Thank you. Very informative.
Yeah…but you had to Google it. I was going there long before Google and no one knew. 
Over the years, I’ve had people comment on the “Phenylketonurics: Contains phenylalanine” warning on the side of diet soda cans, and wondering if they needed to be worried about it themselves. I always guessed, even before I went to pharmacy school, that if you didn’t know what it was, you didn’t need to worry about it.
Thankfully, phenylketonuria can be detected shortly after birth, and is very rare, about 1 person in 20,000. p.s. The heel stick done on newborn babies is a test for this and some other rare metabolic diseases, not the implantation of a microchip as has long been rumored. I had an opportunity to ask some OB nurses about that, and they assured me that it wasn’t true. Of course, I already knew that and they did too, but it wasn’t the first time they’d been asked about it.
“Pancake syrup” here.
Of all the people I have ever heard claim that hey have a bad reaction to MSG, I believe one. When I asked her about it, she gave a long list of foods she cannot eat because MSG occurs naturally in them.
Back in the 80’s or so, Chinese restaurants got so many questions from people who knew nothing about MSG and complaints from people who falsely believed that they were allergic to MSG, that most of them put big signs saying “No MSG!” in their windows.
I won’t get into “Gluten free”. Yes if you have one of a few rare conditions, you should avoid gluten. If you have a typical digestive system, there is no reason to avoid it.
IME MSG warnings have dropped off a lot but I still see them in some Chinese restaurants.
Gluten free menu items are super, super common and pointed out. And I agree it is mostly bullshit. If you have a condition where gluten is an issue I am sure it is nice to see those options* but I think it is something that encourages people to worry about something they need not worry about.
People who truly cannot tolerate gluten already know how to choose appropriate foods for themselves.
*Some places go out of their way to make gluten free alternatives (often for an extra charge). Some places just note what things are gluten free as they are normally made. Something I suspect a person who needs to be gluten free already knows.
I recall seeing ads for military weapons systems (tanks, anti-aircraft missiles, etc., not rifles) on the DC Metro. Aimed a little broader (DoD, not just Congress) but also presumably much more expensive.
That’s hilarious! I hope they made the sale!