<![CDATA[Consumerist: jell-o]]> http://cache.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/consumerist.com.png <![CDATA[Consumerist: jell-o]]> http://consumerist.com/tag/jell-o http://consumerist.com/tag/jell-o <![CDATA[ There's Apparently Not Enough Room For Jell-O Pudding Pops Nutritional Information ]]> "I was out shopping the other day when a box of Popsicle brand Jell-O Pudding Pops caught my eye. My local supermarket doesn't carry them, so I thought I'd pick up a box as a treat. When going to open the box at home, I noticed a very suspicious location for the perforated tear-away opening strip.

Rather than use the mostly-blank side of the box for this strip, they printed the perforations straight through the nutritional info. You can still read the daily percentages afterwards, but once the box is opened, all the calories and fat measurements get torn off.

You can always read this data before opening the box, but it just seems like an unnecessarily sneaky trick for an already not-so-good-for-you dessert, especially with that blank space available on the opposite end of the box."

The suggestion to place nutritional information on the tear-off strip should have caused a chuckle at a product design meeting before being dismissed as patently absurd. Just as Reader Stephen recommends, there is an alternate location for the delicious information:Hmm%2C%20here%27s%20an%20idea.jpg
Jell-O Pudding Pops Nutritional Information [PeerTrainer]

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Consumerist-297590 Sat, 08 Sep 2007 08:56:31 EDT Carey http://consumerist.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=297590&view=rss&microfeed=true
<![CDATA[ Jell-O Causes Biohazard Scare ]]> A quivering, offal-like pool of cherry-flavored horse gelatin caused authorities in Germany to declare a biochemical emergency.

Apparently, "passers-by called police after finding a pool of a flabby red, orange and green substance on the roadside" outside of Halle. A wide area was immediately cordoned off and experts wearing E.T. like chemical warfare suits with nuclear symbols emblazoned on the back were brought into the examine the mess.

Finally, after prodding the quivering, jelly-like mass with many high-tech instruments worth hundreds of thousands of euros and scowling contemplatively at the meaningless results, one of the biochemists had a swell idea. "Hey! Why don't we just taste it?"

And, of course, it was Jell-O, dumped by a local groom after a wedding party. Which is a biochemical hazard in and of itself.

Leftover jelly triggers German security alert [Reuters]

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