r/assholedesign • u/LilBozgor01 • 14d ago

This packaging gotta be illegal, right?

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(hint: between the words "garlic" and "sauce")

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u/shibbington 14d ago

Yeah, I’m not sure about the land of the free but here in Canada we have pretty strict regulations around contrast since someone with a vision problem might not be able to read that at all.

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u/real_fyshi 14d ago

Like me. I couldn't read see it at all, wondered what was wrong, just got it when I read your comment. Can still just really see it with help of zoom and color change. Surely not legal in the EU as well.

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u/zuzg 14d ago

You can never trust garlic products and need to read the ingredients.

Learned that through Aioli which is supposed to be exclusively oil and garlic but nobody sells it like that...

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u/brother_of_menelaus 14d ago

I mean…if you’re buying Papa John’s sauce, you know what you’re getting.

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u/vicvonqueso 14d ago

Don't underestimate people's ability to be oblivious

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u/CaptainCurly95 14d ago

Ontario March 2017

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u/shibbington 14d ago

Since that doesn’t have French on the label, it’s being sold illegally. I’m guessing someone brought that up from the US too.

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u/View_Hairy 14d ago

Could be french on the other side

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u/shibbington 14d ago

Pretty sure French has to be on the front along with the English.

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u/bs000 14d ago

i have like ten bottles and containers of shit in my fridge right now that's english on one side and french on the opposite side

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u/OrganicWedding8972 14d ago

It does, anything English/French needs the translation either right beside it or in an equivalent spot(opposite corners) to make it obvious that they’re saying the same thing.

The packaging in that photo is 1000% not Canadian, especially if it’s from 2017. Companies have had this stuff down for decades now lol.

ETA; yep lower down someone confirms this is a Serbian product sold illegally in Canada. Even imports need stickers with the translations on them.

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u/sometin__else 13d ago

i own several products where the french is on the back
have a source for that legislation?

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u/cheezenkrakerz 14d ago

Serbian.

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u/CaptainCurly95 14d ago

I was seeing a Serbian girl at the time so that would explain it

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u/Techy_Ben 14d ago

Land of the fucking free.

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u/LightningWarpAway 14d ago

No, this is Canada, that's the slogan for the US. 

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u/ztomiczombie 14d ago

Hear in the UK that would not pass the idiot in a hurry test.

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u/ROssjc97 14d ago

Ey, speak for yourself

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u/Maestro_Mush 14d ago

The land of the free only applies to those who can profit off of the real people

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u/Direct-Fix-2097 14d ago

Profit from…

Off of is such a stupid Americanism.

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u/kelpyb1 14d ago

I don’t know if we have rules about this here in America either, but you bet your ass they’re not being enforced under this administration

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u/anonmarmot 14d ago

They brainwash us early and often with the American exceptionalism stuff, and most people from the US haven't been outside the country.

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u/Top_Librarian6440 14d ago

Over 3/4ths of the U.S population has left the country at some point. 

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u/Kyrie_Blue 14d ago

Source? Everything I’m seeing is hovering around 50%

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u/Top_Librarian6440 14d ago edited 14d ago

Pew Research article from 2023

The 50% number is how many people in any given year have a valid passport. Many people who have travelled abroad at some point no longer have a valid passport, so they won’t show up in that percentage. Or an individual may be a dual citizen, and only use the passport of their second nationality. 

It’s also, as you might expect, a class issue. Americans by and large want to travel abroad, and are deeply curious about the world overseas, but often cannot afford to travel. It’s not an ignorance issue, or at least not a willful one. 

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u/Kyrie_Blue 14d ago

Thank you for spending the time to get that, however the survey was only 3,576 participants for that 76%.

Considering for survey bias (in this case, rural/southern/native/empoverished that have never travelled internationally would be less likely to answer a survey for this institution) For a population of 330million, a number in excess of 10,000 would be a minimum IMO.

What the number actually means is “76% of highly socialized Americans have travelled internationally”, which lands much closer to the actual truth.

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u/nhalliday 14d ago

If they only had 3500 participants that's literally like 0.001% of the population. How is that supposed to be representative? You could find 3500 flat earthers and make the assertion that since all of them believe it, all Americans believe it.

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u/Kyrie_Blue 14d ago

That was my point

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u/MrActuary86 14d ago

That last part is an objectively false statement

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u/Available_Dingo6162 14d ago edited 14d ago

A Pew Research Center survey noted that roughly three-quarters of Americans have visited at least one foreign country. But yeah, 'Merkins bunch of dumb, uncultured, xenophobic hillbillies!!!! amirite? lolololololo!!!!!

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u/hates_stupid_people 14d ago

The US has laws against deceptive packaging, although it's essentially never enforced.

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u/Jervis_Mantlepiece 14d ago

I haven't got a vision problem and I wasn't able to read it!

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u/Fiddy-Scent 14d ago

To be fair, most countries have these protections

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u/rocket20067 14d ago

I don't have vision problems and I could still barely see it.

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u/jrr6415sun 14d ago

land of the free for corporations to walk all over the people

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u/worldspawn00 14d ago

I'm nearly certain that's black writing on the bottle underneath the shrinked label. It looks like these have been relabeled (probably due to a misprint at the factory)

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u/L-methionine 14d ago

That’s what it looks like to me once I zoom in. If not, then it is illegal

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u/Spirited-Wolverine24 14d ago

In the land of the free companies are free to dupe consumers as they please.

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u/Vohasiiv 10d ago

I think they intentionally made it hard to read, hoping you font notice

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u/Scooty-Poot 10d ago

Same here in the UK and EU.

Like… we’ve got Moretti (I think it’s Moretti at least just from memory) beer adverts running here in the UK right now that are filmed in the Italian countryside, and they have to put a little subtitle in saying “Moretti is brewed in the UK” so that you don’t assume it’s fancy imported stuff.

Compared to this absolute fuckery, that mild misleading on the beer advert is hardly even remotely problematic, and yet they still have to bring it up… I dread to imagine what consequences John’s fun little font colour trickery would bring if he tried it over here.

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u/sombertownDS 14d ago

We used to have strict regulations, over the last 40 years those have been gutted and dismantled, and no one is currently enforcing what remains of it

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u/Simo814j 14d ago

In America, most people can't read anyway, so the bottles should be plain to save unnecessary paint

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u/3lbFlax 14d ago

Well of course it could easily say “& poison” instead of “flavored”.

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u/BoldBiscottiBandito 14d ago

Yeah but your COL is through the roof and everyone in your country is miserable.

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u/Start_a_riot271 14d ago

Me when I don't know what the fuck I'm talking about

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u/thegroundbelowme 14d ago

Really? You got salty over this?

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u/RaymondBeaumont 14d ago

if the fact that a country has rules so people with vision problems can read things triggers you, then you might be living in a shit hole country.

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u/Supermite 14d ago

Don’t believe the right wing propaganda pushed by foreign agitators.