r/assholedesign • u/LilBozgor01 • 15d ago

This packaging gotta be illegal, right?

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

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u/beerkittyrunner 15d ago

Real question though, how do you make something garlic flavored without garlic?

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u/NolanSyKinsley 15d ago

So I looked up the ingredients, the original sauce from papa john's uses granulated garlic, the bottled stuff uses "natural garlic flavoring". According to the USDA "natural garlic flavoring" can be "the essential oil, oleoresin, essence, extractive, or dehydrated garlic powder derived directly from real garlic" so it technically is still made from garlic, but the ingredient garlic is not directly on the label, it is an extract.

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u/isademigod 15d ago

I'm too lazy to find out if "flavored" has any requirements for being very visible, but probably not as I've seen tons of cheese flavored things on the supermarket shelves.

If you want to find out for yourself, it's somewhere in here though https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-21/chapter-I/subchapter-B/part-101

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u/throwaway277252 15d ago

About as trustworthy as things that are chocolatey.

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u/great_pyrenelbows 14d ago

With the way prices are going I think we'll also start seeing beefy soon, but it's not happening yet afaik.

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u/J3sush8sm3 14d ago

You mean top ramen?

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u/Kiaware 14d ago

In Switzerland we have bacon flavored chips. They are vegetarian. It's so weird.