from the department of redundancy and recursion department

[piranha]

not only does it contain almond paste, but it may even contain traces of nuts!

Comments

[elissaann.livejournal.com]

I recently bought a package of cheese that claimed on the label to include "real cheese." I admit that I bought it for that very reason (because it amused me).

[epi-lj.livejournal.com]

I once bought a packet of peanuts that had that warning.

Which nuts?

[dragon3.livejournal.com]

Some of the people I know are able to tolerate some nuts and seriously allergic to others. Maybe it should say "May contain traces of of other nuts". I think it's a fair warning that would include "We use the same machines to grind cashew butter and similar stuff..." There might be something nutty in there besides almonds.

Now I feel really dumb trying to remember if almonds are the nuts T is very allergic to, or if they are the only ones to which zie has no sensitivity. Doesn't matter really, since we do some decent segregation on the boat and T makes zir own well informed choices, which might be aided by that kind of label.

[genomekelly.livejournal.com]

The word you're looking for is l-i-a-b-i-l-i-t-y.

HTH.

[pir-anha.livejournal.com]

no, actually the word i was looking for was a-m-u-s-e-m-e-n-t.