Except, are you old enough to remember the US Senator from Idaho whose name is attached to that big River of No Return wilderness area? There have been one or two non-crazy people in the state, at least in the distant past.
Very true! I love the Frank Church Wilderness and what Frank Church did to protect wild areas.
During one of Jerry Brown’s terms as Governor of California, music producer Mike Curb ran as a Republican to be the state’s Lieutenant Governor. This proved problematic for Brown, because he had to keep running back home to undo all of the crap Curb did.
One of the defense attorneys in the Ahmaud Arbery case is upset that Al Sharpton attended the trial. “We don’t need any more black pastors here.” He claims Sharpton is intimidating the jury.
Kinda like Arbery was intimidating the three defendants.
Ah, the “menacing blackness” argument.
In fairness, if you allow black pastors in the courtroom, then God might start paying attention to the trial. If God starts paying attention to the trial, he/she might get angry about what’s going on. According to Pat Robertson, if God gets angry, God sends hurricanes. But, again according to Pat Robertson, once God puts the hurricane in motion, he/she loses control of it. No one knows where that storm is going to hit and there might be some unborn babies in the path of that hurricane and that, that cannot be allowed. So, in effect, the attorney is thinking of the children, and at the end of the day isn’t that what we all want: someone to please think of the children?
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Real wasabi can cost $250 per kilo and you’re trying to sue 7-Eleven because they won’t use it? 
It’s quite likely that your local sushi place isn’t using real wasabi, either! You plan to sue them, too?
Not really seeing the stupid here. Seems to me like it’s a clear case of false advertising.
Probably a lack of “delight” in the 7-11 snacks too. The bastards! Just don’t tell them about Girl Guide Cookies.
I can say with only a tiny bit of exaggeration that 100% of “wasabi” sold in the US is not real wasabi. Literally every product with “wasabi” on the label sold at every single retailer that sells wasabi flavored things contains zero wasabi.
The stupid isn’t that the 7-11 items aren’t mislabeled, it’s that anyone would expect real wasabi in something found on a store shelf. The stupid is also that 7-11 didn’t do anything wrong, shouldn’t be punished, and the litigant should have to pay out of his own pocket for this naked cash grab over a transparently trumped up complaint.
Pretty much any place other than a wasabi grower, really.
Bingo.
The 7-11 products may not have been mislabeled if they cleared said “contains no actual wasabi” or similar language. Anyone got a picture of the package?
Or they could have said “all natural wasabi flavoring” or something along those lines, assuming they were using horseradish, which I understand is the usual substitute.
I visited a wasabi farm (?) in Japan once. It is very labor-intensive to grow, and it will only grow in very pure mountain water streams. But it is certainly affordable in Japan, I wonder if the cost here is due to some kind of import duties lobbied for by Big Horseradish.
Huh. I thought wasabi was basically just flavored horseradish. I guess what I have had is, but not true wasabi.
Wasabi flavored sounds sufficiently ambiguous to me. Espcially if the ingredients don’t list wasabi.
This class-action version of the ambulance chaser is the attorney of record:
I generally assume any “wasabi” I eat is just regular horseradish dyed green for "effect’. As long as it tastes close enough I’m fine. Actually, I probably have never had real wasabi in my life so I don’t think I’d be able to tell. I bet the plaintiff in this case is the same.
Here is info on a pretty much identical lawsuit last year against a different organization:
I expect this new lawsuit to be dismissed the same way, for the same reasons as before…
First, the court seems to say that since most “wasabi” products – including any others that the plaintiffs are likely to buy – are actually made with horseradish, the plaintiffs failed to establish they were injured by buying the defendants’ products in particular. In other words, you can’t argue that you were damaged because you chose these, as opposed to others, since you weren’t getting actual wasabi no matter what.
Second, the court also concluded that, because “wasabi” products are generally made from horseradish, the plaintiffs must have known that that “wasabi coated” actually meant “horseradish coated.”
Third, the court dismissed the notion of a “reasonable consumer” standard here and, instead, looked to the fact that the plaintiffs said that they had reviewed the packaging prior to purchasing it. The court said that, if they reviewed the packaging, they must have seen the ingredient list on the back, which didn’t include wasabi, but did include horseradish and green food coloring.
I’m guessing this new case won’t take very long.
All horseradish is flavored horseradish.
It’s all horseradish-flavored. 