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Re:Nearly 80k pounds of butter recalled because of missing l... by gkoberger on Friday November 15, 2024 @05:45PM (#42152128)
You might know about the recall, but does someone visiting your house know that? Does a random chef who gets an allergy notification at a restaurant know about the recall?

EDIT: Again, people are trained to trust the labels – not to parse the marketing. That's why they exist. If someone in a kitchen says "grab the dairy-free butter", the most accurate way to check is to glance at the "Contains" label. Once that trust is broken, the label is useless.

Re:Nearly 80k pounds of butter recalled because of missing l... by Hizonner on Friday November 15, 2024 @05:57PM (#42152234)
> You might know, but does someone visiting your house know that?

Well, yes, because 99 percent of people in general know that butter is made from milk, and that includes 100 percent of the people who might visit my house. And if I did somehow have a visitor so profoundly broken that they didn't know it, I would notice that.

Also approximately 100 percent of professional cooks know that butter is made from milk.

Re:Nearly 80k pounds of butter recalled because of missing l... by netsharc on Friday November 15, 2024 @06:27PM (#42152478)
The antidote to the "strict rules mean common sense can't be used" is... to use common sense: In this instance to ignore the recall instructions, and don't throw away the butter.

Grandparent poster is just throwing all the hypotheticals for the remote chance of "But what if, and if, and if, and if...".

Re:Nearly 80k pounds of butter recalled because of missing l... by readthenotes1 on Friday November 15, 2024 @06:01PM (#42152269)
And, the people who don't know that butter is made out of milk probably cannot read the contains milk symbols on the box
Re:Nearly 80k pounds of butter recalled because of missing l... by tbrownaw on Friday November 15, 2024 @10:35PM (#42153924)
> Also approximately 100 percent of professional cooks know that butter is made from milk.

I am now curious about that "approximately".

Re:Nearly 80k pounds of butter recalled because of missing l... by lolinder on Friday November 15, 2024 @05:48PM (#42152164)
> Does a random chef who gets an allergy notification at a restaurant know that?

I certainly hope that anyone cooking food at a restaurant knows that butter is a milk product.

Re:Nearly 80k pounds of butter recalled because of missing l... by IcyWindows on Friday November 15, 2024 @09:21PM (#42153584)
Maybe have people write "milk" on their own packages instead of throwing the butter inside in the trash.
Re:Nearly 80k pounds of butter recalled because of missing l... by tbrownaw on Friday November 15, 2024 @10:32PM (#42153911)
> but does someone visiting your house know that?

The butter in my fridge right now doesn't have labels on it. Because I take it out of the box it comes in and put an individual stick in that little covered shelf at the top of the door. My understanding is that that's what that shelf is for, so I suspect that this is a fairly common thing to do.