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What you see may NOT be what you get.
I love potato chips. The ruffled ones with a little onion dip – now that’s heaven. But though I love potato chips dearly, they only enter our house once a year, on Super Bowl Sunday. On this day, my kids and I plow through bags of fried potatoes until our fingers are so coated in grease that they glisten like sparkling diamonds. This once-a-year indulgence is my methodology for not gaining 300 pounds of fat from chips.
Given the limits I go to restrict my chip intake, you can imagine my disbelief when I read that Markus Wilson (and his lawyers) had filed a class-action lawsuit in California against Frito-Lay and its parent company, PepsiCo. The lawsuit claims that Mr. Wilson, after reading a Frito-Lay potato chips bag that said it had “0 grams Trans Fat,” believed that the chips would have “positive contributions” to his diet, and that eating the chips would not raise “the risk of diet-related disease or health-related conditions.”
Are you kidding me? Regardless of what the bag said, Mr. Wilson, did you not know that you were about to eat a bag of fried chips? Trying to hold off judgment, I took a look at the complaint. Mr. Wilson alleges, among other things, that Frito-Lay makes the following claims about its chips:
After confirming that Frito-Lay really does make these representations on its website (www.snacksense.com), I had to conclude that PepsiCo really is trying to pimp (oops, I mean market) its chips as “healthy.” Only in the tiny ingredients label do you learn that for every 50 grams of chips you consume, you’re also ingesting 13 grams of fat. In the end, it appears that Frito-Lay and Mr. Wilson deserve one another.
What you see may NOT be what you get.
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