Black Angels - The 0% Yogurt mistake
My buddies and I are going on a two-week vacation in August. Choosing the destination is usually a lengthy process every year because, even though there are five of us, everyone wants to go somewhere different. I, for one, want to die on the Strip in Las Vegas, Dave absolutely wants to go to Dubai, but when I told him that wasn't going to happen because anyone who has visited Israel once is barred from entering the Emirates. Berlin and Amsterdam were also mentioned, and although the weed brownie - 50 euro hookers in the window combo sounds extremely appealing, it looks like Akos's choice will be the winner in the end, as we're going to Thailand. Thailand is the country of 5-dollar Vuitton bags and people of indeterminate gender, where if you pay for a girl, there's a good chance you'll end up with a 16-year-old boy. That part made me a little uneasy because I understand beaches and snakes on the table, but if I get excited about a girl in a miniskirt, she better be a girl, even if these thoughts aren't exactly politically correct in a European sense. And who knows, maybe after the third sake or whatever the hell they drink there, my judgment will be severely impaired, and I'll have my first SZDSZ-adjacent experience to the great delight of Klára Ungár and the Gay Pride movement...
So, we'll be talking about misconceptions here, and specifically the misconception of 0% yogurts. In the past few days, as you know, I went on a big shopping trip in Germany, and while I was taking photos of the hams, my eyes fell on a 0.75-liter yogurt bottle. A slender woman on the side of the box, with "0.1% fat content" highlighted in huge letters, and for good measure, a measuring tape was even graphically added to it, so that everyone would realize that this was a huge diet product. Deception and misleading the public are the privilege of politicians, and calling most 0% yogurts "diet" is as ridiculous as politicians' asset declarations. Because if someone were to take the trouble and turn the bottle around to check, "okay, 0.1% fat content, but what else is in it?", then the smile wouldn't be so wide. The biggest problem is that most women, when they see something with "light" written on it, or God forbid, it's also adorned in pink and purple, will buy it without much question or further thought. In contracts, the small print is always the key; in banks' fantastic offers, the asterisked part always conceals the sad reality. It's the same with all food products, only here you just need to turn that damn box around and correctly interpret the ratios and values on it.
New Lifestyle, the aforementioned measuring tape, at the end of which is the inscription "0.1% fat". In the bottom right corner of the bottle, there's also a calorie count, indicating how many calories are in a given amount. So, in a given amount. It's worth noting here that the 168-calorie value is stated for 2.5 deciliters, but the problem is that this yogurt is 7.5 deciliters, which in this case means 504 calories!!!! that are in a single one of these super cool diet yogurts. They often do this, that when a calorie value reaches unacceptably horrific heights, especially in the case of a product falsely advertised as diet, they only list the calorie counts for a certain quantity, and most people simply believe that this is the amount in the entire product.
The best part is yet to come, because why does it contain so many calories if it's supposed to be a diet product? The bottle turns around, and lo and behold, 13 grams of sugar per 100 grams of yogurt!!! In this case, this crap is 750 grams, meaning this 0.75-liter New Lifestyle measuring tape 0% yogurt contains a whopping 98 grams of sugar.
Unfortunately, I can't say it as slowly as Ildikó Lendvai, the grand dame of the Pinocchio government, so I'll write it down instead. NINETY-EIGHT GRAMS OF SUGAR. It's incredibly intense, and just to show you how much sugar that really is, I pulled out the scale and precisely measured how much this amount actually is.
Damn, right? Even I was surprised by this amount of sugar. Dieting has become a huge trend, and even more importantly, a huge business. Most companies have realized that if they combine the word "light" with products aimed at women, they'll be able to sell even crap, because people's intelligence doesn't extend to looking beyond the apricot and 0.1% combination to more carefully examine what they're consuming under the guise of dieting. The bottom line is, don't be easily duped suckers, because that's what the FLP and Zepter monkeys are for.
