nuts
I’m nuts (some say; one did just today!) but not allergic to them. If I was, I’d be confused by the following labeling on this Tesco-generic “full fat soft cheese”:
So, I think they are trying to tell us that there are no nuts in the cheese, but in case you die, they are not liable; so don’t come knocking. Would a person allergic to nuts eat this? I don’t know (I can tell you that if you are contemplating, take it on the safe side because the cheese wasn’t very good anyway and it’s just ain’t worth it.)
And what the hell does “Ingredients: Cannot guarantee nut free” suppose to mean? I’ve never seen the ingredients list take the negative form.
June 12th, 2006 at 12:10 am
What they are trying to say is that while their factory doesn’t do anything that involves nuts and their cheese doesn’t contain nuts the producer has not gone to the time and expensive to be absolutely sure that the factory NEVER has had nuts in it and that its ingrediants have always been kept away from all and any form of nuts. There is a big difference between “we don’t use nuts” and “nothing that touched or went into this cheese ever had any form of tree nut in it.” The first is cheap, the second requires labs, certifications and high liability.
June 27th, 2006 at 10:26 pm
Seems like the lack of milk or cheese in the ingredients would make me question what was really in there - certainly I wouldn’t suspect much in the way of nuts. When I first looked at the label I suspected that you were perpetrating a hoax - now it just seems that someone at Tesco just got caught up ‘in the moment’.