Is it normal that serving suggestions treat us like idiots?

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On the pack of a packet of gravy granules, there's a picture of the gravy steaming away in a gravy boat and the words "serving suggestion" underneath.

What did they think I was going to do with it? Pour the granules on the table, spit on them, and the suck up the resultant gravy out of the tablecloth?

Same with a tin of peas. The serving suggestion was the peas on a plate, next to some meat. The worst of the lot was a picture on the back of an iced lolly which showed a girl taking the wrapper off and then sucking the lolly.

Is this what we've come to? I fully expect to see toilet paper with operating instructions soon.

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  • twistedmama81
    13 years ago

    WTF is a lolly??

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    • dappled
      13 years ago

      Why are you swearing about a small, frozen, juice-based treat on a stick? It seems the least offensive thing in the world.

      Also, a general tip: If you don't know what something is, don't curse at random strangers. Type the word into Google, press "Search", read the answers it gives you, process the information, and then remember the information in your brain (in your head).

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  • pluto88
    13 years ago

    I like the commercials with disclaimers at the bottom saying "use as directed".

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  • MercedesBenz
    13 years ago

    They are all usually legal requirements, because although the majority of us are not that stupid-- there is that 1% of people who are and do make case law with their misuse of items or claims against the companies for not "warning them".

    For instance, everyone knows about the McDonald's lady who spilled the hot coffee on her crouch. Thats just one of many. There was also a man who bought a brand new RV, turned on cruise control, then went to the back to make a sandwich. Only when his RV went crashing through a few cars and a field, did he realize his "cruise control" was not intended for the steering wheel. He sued the manufacturer because they failed to put a warning in the user manual explaining cruise control only controls the throttle/acceleration. Thats why now there are dumbass signs everywhere. "This coffee is hot". You don't say?"You cannot really tape a child to the wall with post it notes." Really? Because I planned on trying to hang a midget from my wall later.

    Yeah, sad but true. We created this monster. Damn that 1%.

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    • [Old Memory]
      13 years ago

      Didn't the same thing with coffee happen to Kramer on Seinfeld too?

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  • fluffyshem
    13 years ago

    It's for the illiterate. In other words, yes.

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  • sjshp
    13 years ago

    Hahahaha just made me crack up, thanks much :p

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  • MercedesBenz
    13 years ago

    Yes!

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  • [Old Memory]
    13 years ago

    that's hilarious..1

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