On Hulu, each episode of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia is preceded by the disclaimer “The following is intended only for mature audiences. Viewer discretion advised.” So, to be clear: they want only mature people to watch these characters do the stuff they do. LOL.
Yeah, I get that there’s stuff in that show that most parents wouldn’t want their kids to see and be amused by. A lot of stuff. I’m not disagreeing with that. I’m just saying that the way the message (the warning) is presented to the viewer is, well, always funny in context of a show that has, for example, Danny DeVito clawing his way out of the inside of a sofa, stark naked, in the middle of a company Christmas party.
What are the things, probably but not necessarily small and insignificant in the big picture, that strike you as “this will never not be funny”? It doesn’t have to be television in particular or even pop culture in general. Anything that answers the question is fair game here.
Botanically yes, but for culinary purposes they are nuts. So it’s not accurate to say that they’re not nuts in any sense. And they are very unique among legumes in that the plant burrows into the soil to form its pods unlike other legumes, so calling them “legumes” isn’t very useful.
Almonds, Brazil nuts, cashews, and pistachios are also not nuts. In fact, few of what we call “nuts” are actual botanical nuts. Acorns, hazelnuts, and chestnuts are actual nuts. Look at this:
None of those are nuts from a botanical perspective. Which is completely useless information that is meaningless to consumers.
Here in the UK at least ‘peanuts’ and ‘nuts’ (or ‘tree nuts’) are two distinct categories in food, with separate warning labels for allergy purposes. Both need to be listed separately on ingredients if both are present.
Peanut butter will typically be labelled ‘contains peanuts, may contain nuts’, and they mean two different things.
I gotta admit, it’s hard for me to keep it together when I see someone step in something, then look at the bottom of their foot. It slays me for some reason!
I can only speak from a US perspective, but that’s not how it works here.
There is a specific “tree nut” allergy warning, but “nuts” does not exclude “peanuts”.
Here is the back of packaging for a bag of store brand pistachios from Target (a large retail store chain here):
It says it contains pistachio (which again, is pretty damn funny; and it gets back to what I said about how I’d rather be warned if it didn’t) and that it “may contain peanut and other tree nuts”. Which seems to imply that “peanut” is a tree nut, when it isn’t in any sense. (Just a clumsy way to write it I guess; it seems to get the message across well enough anyway.)
Another label from a bag of cookies in the US:
It lists various kinds of nuts, none of which are tree nuts, and just call them out individually. Any one of those items might trigger a different allergy so are listed separately.
I don’t think a warning about “nuts” in itself actually appears on any US packaging, because there is no such thing as an allergy to “nuts”, but rather certain kinds of nuts.
I think what the UK calls “nuts” on their packaging, the US calls “tree nuts”. Because again, a peanut is a nut for many usages, as are many other foods that aren’t tree nuts.
That reminds me of something a friend pointed out to me. If you’re out in public and see someone look at their watch, walk up to them and ask them what time it is. Chances are, they’ll look at their watch again–seconds later, mind you–before they answer.
If you order your pizza online from Casey’s (for those who don’t know, a convenience store chain in the US mostly concentrated to the South and Midwest - with fucking awesome pizza), you can, of course, add toppings to only one half of the pizza. Hand to Og, they ask you which side of the pizza you want your half toppings on.
That actually makes sense to me. Makes it more clear when you want different combinations on each side of the pizza. Like, onions, olives and mushrooms on one half, but sardines, corn, and peanut butter on the other half. Nobody would want to get onions on the peanut butter half, would they?
