# Weird product warnings revisited! Add your gems to this treasure.
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-product-warnings-revisited-add-your-gems-to-this-treasure/376763
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [October 17, 2006, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-product-warnings-revisited-add-your-gems-to-this-treasure/376763 "2006-10-17T12:34:39Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@zagloba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zagloba)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2006, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-product-warnings-revisited-add-your-gems-to-this-treasure/376763/61 "2006-10-18T06:00:27Z")
[QUOTE=Eyebrows 0f Doom]
That reminds me of when Apple first released the iPod Shuffle, at the bottom of their webpage was a small disclaimer warning:
“Do not eat iPod Shuffle.”
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If Apple can perform the miracle of shrinking a digital music player to the size of a couple of sticks of gum, surely they can make it _chewable_, too!
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### Author:  [@Freudian\_Push\_Up\_Bra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Push_Up_Bra)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2006, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-product-warnings-revisited-add-your-gems-to-this-treasure/376763/62 "2006-10-18T06:28:31Z")
[QUOTE=Eyebrows 0f Doom]
That reminds me of when Apple first released the iPod Shuffle, at the bottom of their webpage was a small disclaimer warning:
“Do not eat iPod Shuffle.”
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I really REALLY want to know what prompted this disclaimer…
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### Author:  [@Common\_Tater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Common_Tater)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2006, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-product-warnings-revisited-add-your-gems-to-this-treasure/376763/63 "2006-10-18T18:33:10Z")
“Do Not Eat Frozen Pizza”
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### Author:  [@iamthewalrus\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamthewalrus_3)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2006, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-product-warnings-revisited-add-your-gems-to-this-treasure/376763/64 "2006-10-18T18:39:44Z")
[QUOTE=Miller]
In all seriousness, there’s probably a law requiring any product that contains peanuts to put a warning label on the package, no matter how obvious it is that there are peanuts inside. It’s easier to write a blanket law like that covers everything, then try to come up with exceptions for jars of peanut butter or bags of peanuts that might inadvertently exclude something not so obvious.
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That would explain all the obviously peanut-based products that say “Contains peanuts.” It still doesn’t excuse the silly sort of waffling that leads to labeling something with “Peanut” in the name with “_May_ contain nuts.”
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### Author:  [@Mindfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mindfield)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2006, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-product-warnings-revisited-add-your-gems-to-this-treasure/376763/65 "2006-10-18T18:56:38Z")
Reminds me of my local Tim Horton’s coffee shop. The lids always say, “Caution! Contents may be hot!”
They’d damn well better be, 'cos I didn’t ask for _iced_.
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### Author:  [@FatBaldGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FatBaldGuy)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2006, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-product-warnings-revisited-add-your-gems-to-this-treasure/376763/66 "2006-10-18T20:06:49Z")
[QUOTE=iamthewalrus(:3=]
That would explain all the obviously peanut-based products that say “Contains peanuts.” It still doesn’t excuse the silly sort of waffling that leads to labeling something with “Peanut” in the name with “_May_ contain nuts.”
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Because, despite the name, peanuts are not nuts. They are legumes. Some people have allergies to peanuts. Other people have allergies to nuts. One of my co-workers is just fine with peanuts, but if he gets anywhere near a pecan or almond he can’t breathe.
The warning on the peanut package is for the benefit of those like him, who may not be aware that the peanut packing line may have some residue from the batch of walnuts that was processed a few hours earlier.
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### Author:  [@Anne\_Neville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anne_Neville)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2006, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-product-warnings-revisited-add-your-gems-to-this-treasure/376763/67 "2006-10-18T20:20:53Z")
[QUOTE=The Sausage Creature]
Nephew’s school menu went like this
\*\*
THURSDAY\*\*
BBQ Pork Rib Sandwich\*
Fries
Relish Cup
Milk
\*May contain pork.
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Obviously, the nephew goes to a school that is run by the same people who ran the dining hole at my college.
> [@Common Tater](#):
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> “Do Not Eat Frozen Pizza”
What are we supposed to _do_ with it, then? I’ve been doing this wrong for so many years…
> [@matt\_mcl](#):
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> I once saw a brand of pet food whose label said something to the effect of “Tested on animals, and they liked it.”
Any beef, chicken, turkey, or fish cooked in my kitchen has probably been tested on animals. The animals insist on it.
Once when I was a TA, I was asked by one of my students if I had taken the test they were studying for. I said, “No, we don’t test our exams on animals”.
And **LHoD** and **freckafree** , can you save me a window seat? I laughed myself to tears at both of your posts.
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### Author:  [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)
#### Post date: [October 19, 2006, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-product-warnings-revisited-add-your-gems-to-this-treasure/376763/68 "2006-10-19T02:03:21Z")
[QUOTE=Freudian Push Up Bra]
[QUOTE=Eyebrows 0f Doom]
That reminds me of when Apple first released the iPod Shuffle, at the bottom of their webpage was a small disclaimer warning:
“Do not eat iPod Shuffle.”
[/QUOTE]
I really REALLY want to know what prompted this disclaimer…
[/QUOTE]
Probably the word “apple” + a newly literate moron…
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