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Dinner, it's what's for dinner. Now with 5% more foodstuff.
Try our new Breakfast Dinner. The same Dinner you already know you are able to digest, but now you can have it for breakfast too.
But what will I have for lunch :/
Move to a place where they call lunch dinner and dinner supper. It's simple.
Be sure to move back for dinner- I mean supper. I mean dinner..
Are food labelling laws really that bad in the US? Can you really really buy "dinner" without having any idea what its main ingredient is?
Anytime I read some in-depth report about food regulations in the USA my jaw drops. Favourite permanent head-shaker: the FDA relies on manufacturers self-reporting if their food is "safe" - and has been for decades.
It's not just the FDA. The Department of Transportation standards for helmets have barely changed since they were set back in 74 based on flawed and already outdated data, and helmet manufacturers self report whether their helmets conform. It's estimated 20% of DoT helmets don't actually comply, despite being DoT certification.
Yes. Everything is “natural and artificial flavoring”. Also Tic-Tacs (which are literally just compressed balls of sugar) say in the nutrition facts that they have 0g of sugar because they keep the “serving size” just below the amount where they are allowed to round down to zero.
I think this is just a supermarket thing. It's a generic label for the purpose of their inventory system for things they make themselves as opposed to something they sell that was purchased from a primary vendor.
My supermarket has a deli I can order sandwiches from and they'll have "lunch" or something to that effect on the label that has the barcode on it.
We do have very "strict" food labeling laws as far as what you can call a thing based on what's in it, so much so that I basically call it "food language." For example a product that is made with synthetic chocolate is not allowed to be called simply "chocolate," it can be called chocolaty or I think chocolate flavored, but not "chocolate."
Also there are some labels that are standard but not regulatory in nature, which results in the frankly beautiful stupidity that is a "non-GMO" label on a salt container.
I like to get the salads from Kroger sometimes and they are all labeled "SALAD" haha
I recall a small cookie or dessert company that listed "love" as an ingredient. FDA made them take it out of the list.
They also made Jeremy stop jacking off into the dough.
Hasn't tasted right since.
Well yeah...that's the "love" part. It would be false advertising if they took Jeremy away but still insisted it contained love.
Not just the main ingredient; every ingredient must be on the label where in from. What would people with allergies do otherwise?
It usually depends on the size of the company producing the food. It's different from place to place but there is usually an exception in food labeling laws for very small business. So if less than X is sold, if the companies revenues surpass Y, or if anything is sold across state lines it needs a nutritional label. Otherwise they're exempt. Doesn't mean that the specific seller in the photo isn't breaking the law but like everything it's a lot more nuanced than just everything needs a label.
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Europe does the exact same thing with food like this - this is like going to the lunch/dinner buffet station thing at your grocery store that has a price per kg or whatever. You won't find exact ingredients on the price tag you slap on you weighed food.
Now with flavor
Whatever that is it would go good with hot sauce
For 4.99 I'm not asking any questions. Dinner is served baby!
It's deep fried, what else do you need? You're not one of those savages that puts ketchup on everything, are you?
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Gotta be Mac and Cheese inside. What the Canadians call Kraft Dinner.
Just make sure you use them by last January the 9th otherwise your mystery slabs could make you sick!
i'm a bit concerned about that label. if you look closelier, you'll see it's actually a date range: 1/9/25-18/8. this food doesn't even exist yet, and when it does it'll be good til august. but only if you're in europe.
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Darn, I was looking for breakfast
I'm gonna be honest, it looks tasty. I'd try it.
Does anyone actually know what these are
Looks like chicken strips to me
Edit: after a quick search it appears to me that Lewis market offers hot meals, and in many grocery stores you can find chicken strips in their hot meal section. My assumption is that the barcode 'dinner' is just a generic code for any of their hot food items.
Usually you wouldn’t wrap a hot meal in plastic wrap though.
They use harder plastic here, but often times they make items like this, then refrigerate some and package them next to the hot food section. So they don't get as dried out sitting under a heat lamp for hours. This also qualifies them for SNAP (food stamps) as hot food does not qualify. Then you just take it home and throw it in the oven when your ready to eat it.
The grocery store by my house sells precooked/fried chicken like this but it's cool and stored in a little cooler thing.
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Lewis Fresh Market, it's what's for Dinner.
I would totally eat slabs like this if they ensured all vitamins and balanced macronutrients, and came in various flavors so I don't get bored.
Winner winner, mystery dinner.
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Your customers can't compare prices with the competition if there's nothing to compare.
Quantity of 1 dinner.
i wonder whats for
Welp, its spelled differently so im glad its not near me.
I'll take it, and another one to-go... Side of gravy. I'm a bit of a health nut.
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