100 Percent Whole-Grain Popcorn
Correct me if I’m wrong, friends, but I’m pretty sure popcorn wouldn’t work if it weren’t whole-grain.
Also, they felt it necessary to footnote the fact that the 0% Trans-Fat is only on a per-serving basis. Meaning that, perhaps, enough servings of 0% may equal some other percentage than zero, a mathematical limb I’m not willing to climb on. It won’t hold my weight on account of all the hot buttered popcorn I’ve ingested.
The people designing this box, do you think they intended the packaging to be anything less than ironic?
Perhaps they honestly thought a selling point of microwavable popcorn is the fact that the popcorn is still structurally sound.
And trans-fat free as well! But considering the bucket of butter-flavored grease the popcorn is packed in I think the trans-fat free brag is as meaningful as a bottle of vodka proudly proclaiming itself free of antifreeze.
I bet the Spanish language instructions on the back poke fun at the statements for the Gringos on the front.
Do the ingredients just say -
Corn, butter.
I have to agree with Daniel Martin… I believe it is only Corn and Butter… the colourful healthy facts are just to ‘butter’ suckers like me …
Ooooh fat free lol
Dan, RHSP, don’t forget the “artificial flavor!”
You know, the per serving 0% trans fat is probably meaningful. I bet the FDA allows the 0% label if the amount of trans fat is less then 1% per serving or some such thing. Sooooo….. if you would ingest enough servings, you might also ingest more than 1% trans fat, ergo, the qualifier on the packaging that the 0% only applies to one serving.
I agree though, whole grain is hardly necessary on the label. I do not think you can pop half a kernel of corn, and therefore, pop corn by definition is already whole grain.
By the way if there is 0% trans fat, there is no butter in the bag.
Happy Cinca de Mayo!
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