[Daffynition]

[MeganC]

But do all of these foods come with real and genuine Chinese melamine?

[bigheadfred]

Those hard crunchy blue things in my Colossal Berry Crunch aren’t REAL?

OH, The Huge Manatee!!!!

[donhunt]

Hey, if we can have a fake president they can have fake blueberries.

[JoeProBono]

Don't eat much desert but I love crabmeat.

[oh8eleven]

JERRY: You faked it?
ELAINE: I faked it.
JERRY: That whole thing, the whole production, it was all an act?
ELAINE: Not bad huh?
JERRY: What about the breathing, the panting, the moaning, the screaming?
ELAINE: Fake, fake, fake, fake.

[Bean Counter]

We have access to so many blueberries here that we keep a couple of bags in the freezer. They work great in muffins or anything else your make if you treat them like another dry ingredient. They thaw quickly when you bake ‘em.

Same goes for raspberries here...we get gallons of them off of our canes every summer.

[Batrachian]

It seems odd that concocting artificial blueberries out of all those ingredients is cheaper than the real thing. Or maybe it just tastes better? At least there's no pesticides in the artificial variety. Take that, self-proclaimed food safety watchdogs!

Hmm... I wonder if the fruit in my Kellogg's Fruit Harvest cereal is the real thing or the imitation kind. Must read ingredients.

[La Lydia]

No plastic bits here, the ingredients include “blueberries canned in light syrup.”

[bunkerhill7]

went bucket berryin` last year on Hogback,

but the bears got there first,

ate all the blueberries

[Ezekiel]

It used to be that processed food was bad "merely" because it was stripped of nutrients. Now it's brazenly stripped of food.

If the word "marriage" can be redefined such that it retains no objective meaning, then nothing is immune from attack. Clinton's "is" hydra lives on. Otherwise how does one explain "fat-free half and half"?

Last year sometime I was looking at a container of ice cream and saw on the label what appeared to be an ingredient list (it was formatted to look like one). It said something along the lines of, "Contains: cream, milk, sugar, vanilla....". Looks so wholesome, natural, real.

However, in small print below this list it stated that the FULL ingredient list was located somewhere else (on the back panel IIRC). I mean WTH? Two ingredient lists? I had never seen that. It's one thing to highlight a particular ingredient or nutrient or so-called health benefit, but to plant a faux ingedient list?! So now you have to beware of abridged ingredient lists.

What with all the shrinking product sizes, where do they find the space?

A red flag is the word "real". "Made with real [insert ostensibly real food]". Depends what their definition of "real" is.

Lies are the coin of the realm. If the ingredients are an obvious lie, what about the safety and long-term effects of ingesting these products? Do. Not. Want.

[Celtic Cross]

[nhwingut]

[Revolting cat!]

[metmom]

For years I thought I hated blueberries because they tasted so awful in baked goods.

Then I had some real ones.