I love it when products state the obvious on their packaging. This jar of peanut butter from Henry’s Marketplace in San Diego, of course, has peanuts and salt listed as ingredients. At least there isn’t anything weird in the mix. However, the allergy warning says it contains peanuts. Duh! Would someone who was allergic to peanuts knowingly buy a jar of peanut butter?
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Yes, one would think so. On the other hand, we live in a country where someone sued McDonald’s because their coffee was too hot, and where a woman sued CBS because she saw Janet Jackson’s exposed boobie on TV (I always wondered who she sued when she got out of the shower and saw her naked self in the mirror–it’s a wonder she didn’t sue because Janet has better boobs while she was at it).My favorite guidance in cases like these comes from Book 4 in the Hitchhiker’s Guide Trilogy (So Long and Thanks for all the Fish): “If you read the directions on a box of toothpicks, I think you will find where the Asylum truly is.”
That’s right, we’re in the land of the sue-happies. Even if the obvious must be restated over, people do anyway because they must cover their arses. If they don’t, someone will sue.Of course, someone would sue if someone else literally did not cover their arse.