Smucker sued over '100 percent' fruit label

CNN ^ | 10/20/2003

[Born Conservative]

LOS ANGELES, California (Reuters) --A California woman with a "sensitive palate" has filed a proposed class-action lawsuit against the J.M. Smucker Co. claiming that its familiar label is misleading since its spreadable jam is less than half fruit.

The case was filed last week in Los Angeles Superior Court on behalf of anyone who bought the Smucker premium brand in the past four years.

[M. Peach]

To all you jelly fans - check this out:

http://poetry.rotten.com/potatoes-n-jelly/

[Cold Heat]

Smucker's is still the best.

100% fruit would likely be a bit hard to spread and acidic. IMHO

[Sunshine Sister]

Better yet she get laughed out of court and has to pay court costs!

[JimVT]

I'd like to give her the razzberry!

[Conspiracy Guy]

Liberals for a Food Free America. It's for the children.

[Cobra Scott]

The premium jam also contains fruit syrup, lemon juice concentrate, fruit pectin, red grape juice concentrate and natural flavors,

What part of the above is not "fruit"?

Smuckers should countersue, and include the guy's law school for imitating a place of higher education.

[okkev68]

Isn't fruit syrup made with sugar? If they use sugar to make their fruit syrup then technically it is not 100%. We buy "spreadable fruit" to avoid the corn syrup that goes into "everything".

[HolgerDansk]

Smuckers is 100% Fruit. That's F-R-U-I-T, as in apples, lemons, grapes, etc.

Bloody liberals, they can't read!

[CSM]

If it saves just one, it is worth it! Plus, it causes second hand food a clear danger to the children!

SAVE THE KIDS!

[January24th]

Hope this gets jammed up in the court dockets.
It all boils down to greed.
The idea for a lawsuit never gelled until she read the research.
She'll need a better batch of lawyers to win this.
We should stop this from spreading.

[Revolting cat!]

Tomorrow's headline today:

Schwebel & Schmuck Shyster Sigal Sue Smucker

[Argh]

BWWAAAAHAhahahaha, very nice, Miss Jan! Long time, etc. I hope she doesn't put them out of business, they make a seedless raspberry jam I really like!

[Conservative_Rob]

This must be the same lady that caused the manufacturers of KY Jelly to place the warning "For external use only" on thier tubes.

[SpinyNorman]

From an old SNL parody commercial: "If it's called Painful Rectal Itch, it HAS to be good!!"

[January24th]

I can't even say that one time real fast. LOL!

[Graybeard58]

"No wonder lawyers have such a bad reputation"


...Yep! It's mother smuckers like her who give it to them.

[San Jacinto]

This proves that we need tart reform...<p.And torte reform. I think Smuckers is owned by a French outfit. It is not allowed in my house.

[jslade]

This why we should kill all the lawyers, as per Shakespeare.

[Conspiracy Guy]

Second hand food is disgusting and dangerous. In addition to the toxins and carcinogens it is highly flamable and in a closed environment EXPLOSIVE. It most be stopped. The best way to stop second hand food is to ban food. If no one consumes food then second hand food will not be produced. Did you know that 100% of the people who consume food will die. Food was the cause of my grandfather's death at 90 years of age. My grandmother died a few months later from her own addiction to food and all those years of exposure to grandpa's second hand food. Food was so debilitating to grandpa that in his last few years he often said, "I'm so full I can barely bend wind". Then he'd smoke a cigarette and rip one or two. Lucky for he and grandma that he didn't blow the house up.

[Graybeard58]

"This must be the same lady that caused the manufacturers of KY Jelly to place the warning "For external use only" on thier tubes".



...What have you got against Kentucky jelly?