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    When pineapple=wheat...

    I spent nearly five minutes today trying--unsuccessfully--to convince a customer that a bottle of pineapple juice is in fact gluten free. Shouldn't that be common sense (especially if the ingredients list is nothing more than "Pineapple Juice")?

    I think her confusion arose from that brand's GF labeling, which is a wheat-stalk icon with a slash through it--underneath does say "Gluten Free" though so I'm not entirely sure how her thought process got to "contains wheat". The only thing I can come up with is that she read it to be "not not gluten free" which still doesn't make any sense.

    At the end of this strange odyssey, she left the bottle on my desk with a "Thanks, but I'd better not risk it. I'm gluten free." Another customer who was idly watching this whole thing gave me the best "WTF" look I've seen yet and the cashier across from me was trying not to laugh.

    ...Well to be fair the juice is in the same aisle as the crackers. Maybe she thought wheat molecules can pass through packaging?
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    My mid-twenties daughter had taken me to the pharmacy for a script and while we were waiting some girl about her age was asking her BFF if the lambskin condoms were vegan...
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      Having flashbacks to the time I got asked if a case of bottled water had carbs in it.
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      • #4
        Applesauce is even labeled as gluten free (again, DUH).... Maybe stores should just go the obvious absurd route and just have two grocery sections: "Gluten" and "Gluten Free". Or would the questions just get dumber?
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          Quoth Dreamstalker View Post
          Applesauce is even labeled as gluten free (again, DUH).... Maybe stores should just go the obvious absurd route and just have two grocery sections: "Gluten" and "Gluten Free". Or would the questions just get dumber?
          We already know the answer to that one.

          Besides, people don't read signs or have common sense.
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          • #6
            Yeah, it wouldn't work.
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            • #7
              Bags of sugar will sometimes have gluten-free labeling on them. SUGAR!
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              • #8
                I think I may have mentioned before the big bags of American-style marshmallows we get here. They're the massive ones you can use to make s'mores with, often imported direct from the USA. It never fails to tickle me that they all say "A Fat-Free Food" on them, as if being 100%±1% sugar somehow makes them more healthy than if they had any kind of fat in.
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