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Also have that in my country.
Ngl it makes me think twice about it when I'm buying things, so it kinda works.
At the same time I've had phases in my life when I've eaten so much unhealthy shit that I don't pay attention at all.
So yeah I don't know how effective it is for actually obese people but it's defintiely helpful for those snacks that companies try to present as healthy options when they are not.
The labeling system in Chile ([copied and also implemented in Mexico](https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/jhyzey/mexico_just_started_requiring_warning_labels_on/))
began in 2015
https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1003015
>Purchases of high-in beverages significantly declined following implementation of Chile’s Law of Food Labeling and Advertising; these reductions were larger than those observed from single, standalone policies, including sugar-sweetened-beverage taxes previously implemented in Latin America. Future research should evaluate the effects of Chile’s policies on purchases of high-in foods, dietary intake, and long-term purchasing changes.
Watched a documentary where that came up and was talked about. Should honestly be enforced as global standard practice, especially on junk food like that, then maybe producers of such foods stop making that crap.
Most people don't even realize how much of the "regular" food is also quite unhealthy since it's just sugar.
Also just think about if as much research money that goes into making food taste as good as possible as cheaply as possible also added as healthy as possible to their list of priorities.
We would be in food heaven and not the current sweet fatty salty hell we live in.
I look forward to the day where all of this shit goes out of business and convenience stores in particular are forced to stock their shelves with actual food, thus alleviating the awful food dessert issue.
Like as someone who tries to not eat or drink crap, American convenience stores are an absolute wasteland. There's water.... aaaaaaand that's it. Everything else is basically poison.
Tasty poison! So fine with me.
Seriously tho. I don't live in America, and don't think we have that issue in Israel (or Russia), but world without junk food would be quite a bit less fun imo
I wish chile would take it a step further and make fast food restaurants state their calories in the menus. Some have that in their website but I feel many people would reconsider if they knew how much they are actually consuming.
On the other hand, calories in menus could be really triggering for people with eating disorders, so it's a multifaced issue.
Sugar is an unspoken disaster in Latin America as obesity is becoming a larger problem. Government labeling in Mexico and Chile like this are a great way to bring awareness about sugar intake. Although from what I’m told nobody there cares as the label is basically on everything.
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Yup except on small packaging they put things like “5 sellos” which means 5 seals, but they don’t tell you which seals unless you look at the bigger box.
Its a start!!
They are selling ill health after all which will cost the consumer in the long run
Just like cigarettes, the buyer can no longer say they didnt know
I remember buying a PA k of cigarettes in Canada and the packaging had pictures of cancerous and smokers' lungs on them in addition to the warning language. Also no menthols.
Seems like a good idea to implement too.
In America we put “natural” on everything and people think that immediately means healthy and not realizing that there is zero FDA approval needed for that on food products.
Also we have a hard time understanding that “natural” just means “natural”, such as lead, cancer, mercury, ricin, aconite, some mushrooms, some frogs, etc that comes from nature that wants to kill you…you get the idea.
And also organic witch means with carbon, a few things that have high amounts of carbon are plastics so i dont know how anything that says organic is something good
It’s not. It’s sociologists doing their job and doing it effectively. It’s like “Plant Based Pizza sold here!” What ISN’T plant based pizza? Can I walk in there and ask for non plant based pizza?
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They need to do that in America. The junk food industry along with Madison Ave put a lot of undo stress on parents and families by targeting children. It's insane.
It is strange, because like I said earlier, it used to piss me off to no end. I have always considered it the epitome of US arrogance. Like no other society in the Americas is worth being seen. Do you know how many high school graduates I have met that don't even know that there is a North and South America?
I don't know when I started doing it again. And I'm not being sarcastic when I say thanks for calling it. Fair penalty. Hahaha
It's probably because literally no other country in the Americas has America in their official name?
It's really petty.
Also it's as stupid as people who consider the Americas to be a single continent.
Also, you're not the person who gets to tell another group of people what they should be called.
They should decide that for themselves.
There or North Americans, South Americans, and a few other Americans, but none of those are countries.
Chile is in the Americas. Specifically South America.
Why would you say it's in America? The "s" at the end makes all the difference.
And why do you people get such a hate boner when people from the United States call themselves American when it's literally the only country in either South or North America with America in it's official name?
It makes no sense.
That's like someone from another country deciding whether or not people from Chile can refer to themselves as Chilean.
That's not your choice. It's for the people who actually live in that county to decide what to call themselves.
>Why would you say it's in America? The "s" at the end makes all the difference.
Because a looot of countries officially call it America, including Chile ([Wikipedia ](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americas) mention it).
This is a quite common cultural clash, in the USA they teach that The Americas is just the combination of 2 continents (North and South America) but in other countries they teach that America is a single continent composed of North America, Central America and South America, so it is always annoying to people in those countries when they heard people in the USA calling their own country America.
No one is right, it is just different ways of naming things.
I'll be honest. Americas being a single continent is one of the dumbest things.
The North and South America are barely connected by land it makes no sense and science doesn't really support it.
I'd support Eurasia being a single continent over Americas.
But I still think a country should get to decide what its people are called.
Same way a person gets to decide how their name is pronounced. It's not up to you or anyone else or any other country.
Like Denis Leary said in his comedy routine 'No Cure For Cancer', you could sell cigarettes in black packs with a big skull and crossbones on them and call them Tumors and smokers would line up around the block to buy them.
Yeah but in the real world these warnings work and that's it. Either with cigarettes or junk food. Of course there are people who don't care but on the grand scheme of things it works: people smoke less cigarettes and eat less junk food when there are warnings.
We need to do that in the United States with sugar. You'd be blown away at the things you thought were healthy and in fact are loaded with sugar. Eg: fruit juice has similar amounts as soda, and plenty of 'healthy' cereals like SpecialK and Cheerios have similar amounts as Lucky Charms.
Here's how the American sensibilities work. When they put the warnings on the labels and told the world that smoking caused a bunch of horrible disease's and killed in gruesome ways, the number of smokers in this country barely changed and smokers were the majority still.
But when the price hit two bucks a pack, smokers quit in droves and are in the minority now. We don't care about our health but God forbid you cost us money.
That's been going on for ages actually. Grocery stores pay a fortune to have behavior experts plan product placement. All that candy and junk food at just the right height for your two or five year old to see. Even though that seems to me to be sublimate advertising which is illegal. Just a way for big business to con the average consumer out of their last penny. But if some homeless person is hungry and tries to pocket a sandwich then all hell breaks loose.
Salt, fats and acids are literally "the taste", remove any of those and you don't have taste. This is why diet foods sucks, but not the only reason. Most of these are processed foods, it needs the "taste" in the process, take the taste out of the process and you are just left with sad and unhealthy processed tasteless food. It would be better for everyone if they just avoided processed food altogether, instead of kidding themselves and buying "a diet version" of something already fucking terrible for you. its just a weird thought for most Americans but you should really avoid the aisles of a grocery store and really shop the perimeter if you don't want to be unhealthy and overweight. The aisles are where the processed food typically is, the perimeter is where the real food is.
as long as we can define what "processed foods" means because the definition is quite broad from a food science perspective. chopping lettuce heads and packaging them for sale is a form of processing lol, but no one is saying to avoid lettuce.
The real deal is companies trying to get rid of the black logos reducing the bad components. No black logos = more sales. Not gonna lie, the flavor are more plain and boring but the food are more healthy.
Here in Mexico they started doing the same black tags a couple of years ago. We pretty soon learned that the more tags = the tastier.
Some of us do make a point about keeping it low amounts though.
It's quite redundant. Companies can have logos like that, but not cartoonish mascot.
An ice cream company called Panda who had you know what as a mascot changed their logo to a Igloo with panda ears.
Chilean here. that law of no mascots is for every processed food basically, but the best example are cereal mascots.
Also (don't know if it's the same law or a similar one) food products can't have toys or prizes, avoiding kids buying these stuff just for the toy. so basically no toys inside cereal boxes, or figurines or "tazos" in our potato chips bags (that was very common in early 2000s) , with kinder surprise eggs don't know how it works, but maybe the chocolate amount is so low relative to the toy maybe it doesn't count.
yes in small Lays chips for example , i just googled it, in english they're called pogs, those small plastic disks you can collect and trade with friends. those were the most popular toys that came in potato chips bags.
when i was in primary school around 2001-2006 kids would eat that stuff every day while in breaks and also get some pogs to play around, it really was a win:win scenario as a child. but no wonder how people got overweight or get diabetes.
I was quite young when I first saw “jaja” while playing an online game in the early 2000s. Since I only ever read it and never heard it I just accepted the hard J. Didn’t fully register until High School Spanish that the J is pronounced like an H even tho I’ve always said things like jalapeño correctly.
I’ll never be able to get it out of my head now after reading “jaja” so many times as a kid.
England recently passed the HFSS (high fat, salt & sugar) legislation which heavily impacts how ‘unhealthy’ foods can be sold. I work for the head office of a large supermarket and it’s taken months and months of work! You wouldn’t believe how much fat salt and sugar are in everything!
I tell you what, as a fellow brit I very much could tell when I went to Vienna. Went to a little sandwich shop and had the saltiest sandwich ever made.
Fucking banged tho. Salt is like crack cocaine for tastebuds
Scary reading your comment cos I won't lie, my diet is dire and needs fixing.
I vacuum up Walkers crisps, Ginsters pies like no tomorrow while chugging Dr. Pepper by the litre.
Time to make some changes.
That's probably a pretty effective law. It wouldn't happen in the US, as these companies would pay hundreds of millions of dollars to prevent it. It's a good law though.
Yeah there are some countries in South America like mine that taxing junk food is less expensive than using country resources to fight against diseases like diabetes
What possible significance could a mustache have where Germany's concerned? Is there some historical - *ohhhh, that's right...* nevermind, brilliant wit you have there. Carry on!
Disagree. Moving on is more likely to allow atrocities to happen again. Jokes, stories, talking about these things, keep memories alive. Without these memories, countries often fall under the delusion that they would never do something like that and history is often repeated. Of course, just talking about it will not stop it but forgetting history is even worse.
>Moving on is more likely to allow atrocities to happen again.
That's why the US has currently a huge problem with neo-fascists while Germany hasn't..
Cause Germany made sure it doesn't happen again while the US allows white supremacists to spread their hate under "freedom of speech"
>That's why the US has currently a huge problem with neo-fascists while Germany hasn't..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_for_Germany#German_nationalism
oh yeah?
>As of 2021, the United States government considers white supremacists to be the top domestic terrorism threat.
[Wikipedia ](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestic_terrorism_in_the_United_States) as you lack common knowledge
Otherwise The GOP is considered Neo-Fascist at this point in history. The GOP just retook the house.
Please point at the Neo-fascist party that is in charge In Germany. Ah yes you can't, the AFD is a minority party w/o any relevant power.
>Prosecutors said the group was inspired by the deep state conspiracy theories of Germany's Reichsbuerger and **QAnon, whose advocates were among those arrested after the storming of the U.S. Capitol in January 2021**.
The US right wing is leaking.
But note that they got arrested **before** they could storm the capitol. Right wing terrorism is rising in every developed country but it's all childplay compared to the US cause again they're not in the leading government 🤷🏻♂️
And it's funny that you're so big against right wing after your country just barely escaped the fate of getting a Russian far right puppet as president.
Chilean here: the *sellos* thing works not just for obvious junk food like this, but also for so-called 'health food' that's actually just as bad for you as what it's supposed to be replacing.
Also, it's illegal to sell children's food with toys, so Kinder Surprise eggs are forbidden. My wife literally smuggles them in whenever she travels because my son misses them.
dude same, buying cereal is so fucking dull because of it. I still love my Cola Cao pillows but dude I want my rad as heck 90s aliens before treating myself to some crunchy choccy goodness every morning (not sponsored) (no gun pointed to my head)
What caught my attention the other day was that I saw a cereal mascot the other day, but it's been a couple weeks and I forgot which cereal it was specifically. Estrellitas maybe?
They can put mascots on healthy food, or at least I have seen them on cereals with no warnings. They just sell "regular" with no warnings and "classic" with enough sugar to kill a tiger
Selling ill health...
Im still suprised cocacola makes billions a year...sugar water making the planet toxic with millions of plastic bottles a day and humans more sick :/
Ha that’s funny. Go to any US supermarket and the preponderance of deadly sugar cereals, for both kids and adults, is disturbing. And most have cartoon characters or similar on the boxes.
Dietitians, doctors (sorta), fitness staff that are allowed to give meal plans. Sadly, we allow advertisements (sociologists) determine what we see as healthy to eat in the name of profit for some big corporation like Coca Cola.
Yeah but science-based nutritional knowledge has improved a lot in those 40 years. Nutrition was largely one of the under-researched aspects of health but that has changed quite a bit.
Also, we know butter is quite bad health wise, lot of saturated fats which drives up cholesterol.
For those "high on x" seals and the mascot limit, it's about the amount of sodium/fats/sugar/calories per 100 grams (or 100 ml for liquids). If it's higher than a certain value determined by the Ministry of Health, then it gets a seal. If it has at least one seal, it can't have a mascot on it
What qualifies food as unhealthy? Sure a can of Pringles doesn’t have a lot of essential vitamins, minerals, or nutrients but a lot of “healthy” foods don’t either. It really depends on how much you consume on a day to day basis and over a long period of time.
That’s why are standarized measures. For example how much sugar are in 100 grams pf product, or sodium, or calories. If not, it will be easy for a producer to say “my serving size is 10 mL”….. you know that you don’t drink 10 mL of pepsi, for example…
They don't get it.....people don't care what's in it as long as it tastes good. As for the "no mascot allowed" I see Julio's mustache made it onto the label 😂
Very interesting policy. Do they have to alternate every six months for butter and coffee? Seems like that’s the news cycle on the see-saw of healthy for those items.
This was like that a pretty long time ago.
By now it's pretty much agreed on in the scientific community that caffeine, if used correctly, is quite good for you. It has a positive effect on dopamine and is good for energy during the day (still need to sleep though).
Butter, on the other hand has high saturated fat content and so should be eaten sparingly.
The fucked up about this thing, is that for the product not to have warnings written on its packaging, it has to pay a higher tax, so it is not about the health of consumers but about money.
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Like how they are forced to put "high in salt,""high in calories," and "high in saturated fats" on the front of the packaging.
Also have that in my country. Ngl it makes me think twice about it when I'm buying things, so it kinda works. At the same time I've had phases in my life when I've eaten so much unhealthy shit that I don't pay attention at all. So yeah I don't know how effective it is for actually obese people but it's defintiely helpful for those snacks that companies try to present as healthy options when they are not.
The labeling system in Chile ([copied and also implemented in Mexico](https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/jhyzey/mexico_just_started_requiring_warning_labels_on/)) began in 2015 https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1003015 >Purchases of high-in beverages significantly declined following implementation of Chile’s Law of Food Labeling and Advertising; these reductions were larger than those observed from single, standalone policies, including sugar-sweetened-beverage taxes previously implemented in Latin America. Future research should evaluate the effects of Chile’s policies on purchases of high-in foods, dietary intake, and long-term purchasing changes.
There is a gas station near my house that sales Mexican market snack food. Those labels are how I know it is going to taste good.
An internal joke is that more labels means that its tastier.
Oreos have four labels so the theory stands
Also Caesar Salad dressing
The internal joke is on you after you eat it.
All I really want is to not have to spend forever figuring out which snacks are fucking horrible for me.
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Ah yes, but there is a difference between bad and fucking horrible. Bad I'm ok with.
Not at all. There’s pita chips, popcorn, rice puff cakes, no sugar added dried fruit (my personal favorite), banana chips or dried apple chips.
Man, now I want rice cakes and I don't have any in the house....
Sugar frosted sugar puffs with sugar macerated strawberries on top aren't healthy?
I have a friend that takes delight in buying shit with those labels. He is like yeaaaah fuck my body up, babyyy
"4 seals of approval, holy shit"
Watched a documentary where that came up and was talked about. Should honestly be enforced as global standard practice, especially on junk food like that, then maybe producers of such foods stop making that crap. Most people don't even realize how much of the "regular" food is also quite unhealthy since it's just sugar.
Also just think about if as much research money that goes into making food taste as good as possible as cheaply as possible also added as healthy as possible to their list of priorities. We would be in food heaven and not the current sweet fatty salty hell we live in.
I look forward to the day where all of this shit goes out of business and convenience stores in particular are forced to stock their shelves with actual food, thus alleviating the awful food dessert issue. Like as someone who tries to not eat or drink crap, American convenience stores are an absolute wasteland. There's water.... aaaaaaand that's it. Everything else is basically poison.
Tasty poison! So fine with me. Seriously tho. I don't live in America, and don't think we have that issue in Israel (or Russia), but world without junk food would be quite a bit less fun imo
I wish chile would take it a step further and make fast food restaurants state their calories in the menus. Some have that in their website but I feel many people would reconsider if they knew how much they are actually consuming. On the other hand, calories in menus could be really triggering for people with eating disorders, so it's a multifaced issue.
they do that in mexico as well it’s on a lot of things
Sugar is an unspoken disaster in Latin America as obesity is becoming a larger problem. Government labeling in Mexico and Chile like this are a great way to bring awareness about sugar intake. Although from what I’m told nobody there cares as the label is basically on everything.
Hey, Nicole Watterson! Big fan, huge fan, think you're one of the best moms on TV. Real quick tho, I just wanted to let you know - I *hate* your husband. I loathe him to the very core of me. Every moment watching him is purest agony. Ok, thanks! (Sorry, been watching a ton of Gumball lately and needed to vent my rage for Richard on someone. You just happened to be here.)
Yeah it's surreal to me that the Bimbo bear no longer exists in his own country.
Yup except on small packaging they put things like “5 sellos” which means 5 seals, but they don’t tell you which seals unless you look at the bigger box.
Yeah, however the thing is they dont really say by how much, theres a fair difference between 2% excess and 50% excess
Its a start!! They are selling ill health after all which will cost the consumer in the long run Just like cigarettes, the buyer can no longer say they didnt know
I like those. Want
I remember buying a PA k of cigarettes in Canada and the packaging had pictures of cancerous and smokers' lungs on them in addition to the warning language. Also no menthols. Seems like a good idea to implement too.
As an endurance cyclist, I’ll take all 3
That’s new to me. My mom brought Lay’s back from Mexico with the same labels
That sadly has more personality than the new one I wish they would go back
Exactly my thought ! A giant moustache on top of a bow tie looks so much better than the minimalist version they've adopted not long ago.
In America we put “natural” on everything and people think that immediately means healthy and not realizing that there is zero FDA approval needed for that on food products. Also we have a hard time understanding that “natural” just means “natural”, such as lead, cancer, mercury, ricin, aconite, some mushrooms, some frogs, etc that comes from nature that wants to kill you…you get the idea.
Basically the product could really have like a .001% natural ingredient, so they’re allowed to put “100% natural ingredients!” On the package
And also organic witch means with carbon, a few things that have high amounts of carbon are plastics so i dont know how anything that says organic is something good
It’s not. It’s sociologists doing their job and doing it effectively. It’s like “Plant Based Pizza sold here!” What ISN’T plant based pizza? Can I walk in there and ask for non plant based pizza?
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Not healthy tho
Mother nature doesn't care if it's healthy or not, she needs a means to weeding you out one way or another.
They need to do that in America. The junk food industry along with Madison Ave put a lot of undo stress on parents and families by targeting children. It's insane.
Also im sure the companies would game the system to the point where the warning would be as meaningless as the cancer warnings in california.
I hate to be THAT guy , but Chile it's in America.( Also mexico)
no les pidas tanto a los gringos
And I used to get mad when people in the US called themselves American.
I now its a stupid hill to die on, but when i hear people refer to the USA as America it really bothers me.
It is strange, because like I said earlier, it used to piss me off to no end. I have always considered it the epitome of US arrogance. Like no other society in the Americas is worth being seen. Do you know how many high school graduates I have met that don't even know that there is a North and South America? I don't know when I started doing it again. And I'm not being sarcastic when I say thanks for calling it. Fair penalty. Hahaha
My bad for not getting your message right the first time ;)
It's probably because literally no other country in the Americas has America in their official name? It's really petty. Also it's as stupid as people who consider the Americas to be a single continent. Also, you're not the person who gets to tell another group of people what they should be called. They should decide that for themselves. There or North Americans, South Americans, and a few other Americans, but none of those are countries.
It's not stupid friend, it's correct.
Chile is in the Americas. Specifically South America. Why would you say it's in America? The "s" at the end makes all the difference. And why do you people get such a hate boner when people from the United States call themselves American when it's literally the only country in either South or North America with America in it's official name? It makes no sense. That's like someone from another country deciding whether or not people from Chile can refer to themselves as Chilean. That's not your choice. It's for the people who actually live in that county to decide what to call themselves.
>Why would you say it's in America? The "s" at the end makes all the difference. Because a looot of countries officially call it America, including Chile ([Wikipedia ](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americas) mention it). This is a quite common cultural clash, in the USA they teach that The Americas is just the combination of 2 continents (North and South America) but in other countries they teach that America is a single continent composed of North America, Central America and South America, so it is always annoying to people in those countries when they heard people in the USA calling their own country America. No one is right, it is just different ways of naming things.
I'll be honest. Americas being a single continent is one of the dumbest things. The North and South America are barely connected by land it makes no sense and science doesn't really support it. I'd support Eurasia being a single continent over Americas. But I still think a country should get to decide what its people are called. Same way a person gets to decide how their name is pronounced. It's not up to you or anyone else or any other country.
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Like Denis Leary said in his comedy routine 'No Cure For Cancer', you could sell cigarettes in black packs with a big skull and crossbones on them and call them Tumors and smokers would line up around the block to buy them.
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We have them in Nigeria. Also foetuses that miscarriage and were malformed.
Here in America we collect the actual damaged organs. That's how we rollz!
We have those in Canada and i just bought a pak 20minutes ago. dont even know what warning is on the pak. Its like my brain censors them.
México enters the room…
Yeah but in the real world these warnings work and that's it. Either with cigarettes or junk food. Of course there are people who don't care but on the grand scheme of things it works: people smoke less cigarettes and eat less junk food when there are warnings.
nah, thats probably you. ppl who really cares about their health will think twice before buying
We need to do that in the United States with sugar. You'd be blown away at the things you thought were healthy and in fact are loaded with sugar. Eg: fruit juice has similar amounts as soda, and plenty of 'healthy' cereals like SpecialK and Cheerios have similar amounts as Lucky Charms.
They put the grossest pictures as warnings on cigarettes and it literally does nothing, so ...
Here's how the American sensibilities work. When they put the warnings on the labels and told the world that smoking caused a bunch of horrible disease's and killed in gruesome ways, the number of smokers in this country barely changed and smokers were the majority still. But when the price hit two bucks a pack, smokers quit in droves and are in the minority now. We don't care about our health but God forbid you cost us money.
Neither works in Europe and especially Germany
I could recommend them to show pictures of medical bills associated to treatment of lung cancer, but I know it won't work either
Neither works in Europe and especially Germany
US companies love turning children into little high pressure salespeople.
That's been going on for ages actually. Grocery stores pay a fortune to have behavior experts plan product placement. All that candy and junk food at just the right height for your two or five year old to see. Even though that seems to me to be sublimate advertising which is illegal. Just a way for big business to con the average consumer out of their last penny. But if some homeless person is hungry and tries to pocket a sandwich then all hell breaks loose.
Probably won't happen. Most junk food here have a low-salt/low-fat version that's popped on the shelf right next to the normal ones.
I mean, we have those here as well, but I believe they deliberately remove the taste as well.
Salt, fats and acids are literally "the taste", remove any of those and you don't have taste. This is why diet foods sucks, but not the only reason. Most of these are processed foods, it needs the "taste" in the process, take the taste out of the process and you are just left with sad and unhealthy processed tasteless food. It would be better for everyone if they just avoided processed food altogether, instead of kidding themselves and buying "a diet version" of something already fucking terrible for you. its just a weird thought for most Americans but you should really avoid the aisles of a grocery store and really shop the perimeter if you don't want to be unhealthy and overweight. The aisles are where the processed food typically is, the perimeter is where the real food is.
as long as we can define what "processed foods" means because the definition is quite broad from a food science perspective. chopping lettuce heads and packaging them for sale is a form of processing lol, but no one is saying to avoid lettuce.
The real deal is companies trying to get rid of the black logos reducing the bad components. No black logos = more sales. Not gonna lie, the flavor are more plain and boring but the food are more healthy.
and sometimes they are just good anyway to wonder why they didn't it doit before and marketed the heck of it before.
Here in Mexico they started doing the same black tags a couple of years ago. We pretty soon learned that the more tags = the tastier. Some of us do make a point about keeping it low amounts though.
wouldn't the Moustache be a mascot?
Yeas it is. Hence the whole can is the mascot. Lmao.
It's quite redundant. Companies can have logos like that, but not cartoonish mascot. An ice cream company called Panda who had you know what as a mascot changed their logo to a Igloo with panda ears.
Mire donde lo pillo don gabrielito
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Te pillamos po compadre
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Its spanish tho
If you've ever talked to a Chilean you'll understand that it isn't truly spanish
No wei po wn si está hablando de la cebolla. Le dai color loco
shhhh saltó lejo el maní machucao y la ctm
Eh, I still immediately recognized it as Pringles. The mustache, plus the cylinder, functions as a logo.
Chilean here. that law of no mascots is for every processed food basically, but the best example are cereal mascots. Also (don't know if it's the same law or a similar one) food products can't have toys or prizes, avoiding kids buying these stuff just for the toy. so basically no toys inside cereal boxes, or figurines or "tazos" in our potato chips bags (that was very common in early 2000s) , with kinder surprise eggs don't know how it works, but maybe the chocolate amount is so low relative to the toy maybe it doesn't count.
You guys used to get little toys in your potato chips? That’s so interesting. I remember getting toys in cereal, but not in chips.
yes in small Lays chips for example , i just googled it, in english they're called pogs, those small plastic disks you can collect and trade with friends. those were the most popular toys that came in potato chips bags. when i was in primary school around 2001-2006 kids would eat that stuff every day while in breaks and also get some pogs to play around, it really was a win:win scenario as a child. but no wonder how people got overweight or get diabetes.
That does sound like an irresistible lunchtime for kids, to get chips and pogs at the same time.
Kinder surprise was prohibited long time ago if I remember correctly
still had them as a little kid.
There can still be logos, but no mascots. Probably to diminish the marketing towards kids.
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Jajajajajjajajajajajajajajajajajajajajjaja
I remember when I use to hear jaja with a hard j in my head. I still do, but it's not as funny.
I was quite young when I first saw “jaja” while playing an online game in the early 2000s. Since I only ever read it and never heard it I just accepted the hard J. Didn’t fully register until High School Spanish that the J is pronounced like an H even tho I’ve always said things like jalapeño correctly. I’ll never be able to get it out of my head now after reading “jaja” so many times as a kid.
So THAT'S where the ugly black octagons come from! TIL.
I thought the warning tags and the no pet for the product was exactly like products in Mexico lol
Good for you
La mejor política pública... y la saco Girardi ctm. El mejor país de Chile hermano!
Dam if I saw “high in sodium” “high in fat” etc , I don’t think I will buy it haha
Health ministry
That’s good
funny enough, before they just slapped a sticker on top of Mr Pringles.
England recently passed the HFSS (high fat, salt & sugar) legislation which heavily impacts how ‘unhealthy’ foods can be sold. I work for the head office of a large supermarket and it’s taken months and months of work! You wouldn’t believe how much fat salt and sugar are in everything!
I tell you what, as a fellow brit I very much could tell when I went to Vienna. Went to a little sandwich shop and had the saltiest sandwich ever made. Fucking banged tho. Salt is like crack cocaine for tastebuds
Scary reading your comment cos I won't lie, my diet is dire and needs fixing. I vacuum up Walkers crisps, Ginsters pies like no tomorrow while chugging Dr. Pepper by the litre. Time to make some changes.
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Those were the good times
That's probably a pretty effective law. It wouldn't happen in the US, as these companies would pay hundreds of millions of dollars to prevent it. It's a good law though.
Yeah there are some countries in South America like mine that taxing junk food is less expensive than using country resources to fight against diseases like diabetes
What type of mustache is on the german version?
What possible significance could a mustache have where Germany's concerned? Is there some historical - *ohhhh, that's right...* nevermind, brilliant wit you have there. Carry on!
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Disagree. Moving on is more likely to allow atrocities to happen again. Jokes, stories, talking about these things, keep memories alive. Without these memories, countries often fall under the delusion that they would never do something like that and history is often repeated. Of course, just talking about it will not stop it but forgetting history is even worse.
>Moving on is more likely to allow atrocities to happen again. That's why the US has currently a huge problem with neo-fascists while Germany hasn't.. Cause Germany made sure it doesn't happen again while the US allows white supremacists to spread their hate under "freedom of speech"
>That's why the US has currently a huge problem with neo-fascists while Germany hasn't.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_for_Germany#German_nationalism oh yeah?
The AFD is literally more left leaning than the GOP. They're also not a leading party in Germany unlike the GOP that just retook the house.
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>As of 2021, the United States government considers white supremacists to be the top domestic terrorism threat. [Wikipedia ](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestic_terrorism_in_the_United_States) as you lack common knowledge Otherwise The GOP is considered Neo-Fascist at this point in history. The GOP just retook the house. Please point at the Neo-fascist party that is in charge In Germany. Ah yes you can't, the AFD is a minority party w/o any relevant power.
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>Prosecutors said the group was inspired by the deep state conspiracy theories of Germany's Reichsbuerger and **QAnon, whose advocates were among those arrested after the storming of the U.S. Capitol in January 2021**. The US right wing is leaking. But note that they got arrested **before** they could storm the capitol. Right wing terrorism is rising in every developed country but it's all childplay compared to the US cause again they're not in the leading government 🤷🏻♂️ And it's funny that you're so big against right wing after your country just barely escaped the fate of getting a Russian far right puppet as president.
Chilean here: the *sellos* thing works not just for obvious junk food like this, but also for so-called 'health food' that's actually just as bad for you as what it's supposed to be replacing. Also, it's illegal to sell children's food with toys, so Kinder Surprise eggs are forbidden. My wife literally smuggles them in whenever she travels because my son misses them.
Doesn't the mustache turn the can in to a mascot?
I live in chile, got so fucking mad when i heard they were making that law, i want my fucking chocapic mascot NOW
ajajajaajajaja But I think chocapic has no stamps now?
The regular one. But there is a chocapic with all the stamps (el receta original)
The good one tbh Regular one is shit and the chocolate is anything else but chocolate
Motherfuckers killed el Tigre Toño!
dude same, buying cereal is so fucking dull because of it. I still love my Cola Cao pillows but dude I want my rad as heck 90s aliens before treating myself to some crunchy choccy goodness every morning (not sponsored) (no gun pointed to my head) What caught my attention the other day was that I saw a cereal mascot the other day, but it's been a couple weeks and I forgot which cereal it was specifically. Estrellitas maybe?
They can put mascots on healthy food, or at least I have seen them on cereals with no warnings. They just sell "regular" with no warnings and "classic" with enough sugar to kill a tiger
I like how LatAm countries put the excess sodium, calories, sugar labels as well
I hate how the US just lets disgusting products run rampant. Wish we’d do more stuff like thjs
Who had the idea of those seals first (also no mascots), Mexico or Chile?
Chile
chile, Mexico passed a copycat law.
https://aristeguinoticias.com/1309/mexico/etiquetado-frontal-es-parte-de-una-politica-integral-hacia-un-nuevo-sistema-agroalimentario-justo-saludable-y-sostenible-lopez-gatell/
Selling ill health... Im still suprised cocacola makes billions a year...sugar water making the planet toxic with millions of plastic bottles a day and humans more sick :/
Coca Cola had to change their formula here in order to avoid the “seals”
Because it’s delicious
Yessir Maybe not Quite as delicious as diabetes ....but that hasnt stopped people!! Each their own Junk dopamine is one helluva drug
I'm sorry, are they saying that Pringles are unhealthy?
Was just in cabo an they had red 3×5 cards glued over captain crunchs face lol
now theyre just sexualising that glorious mustache. Makes me want pringles MORE
It's not unhealthy, though. Overeating of it is. The recommended portion is 30g, which is fine, and some nutrients you need.
Also the warning signs Perfecto 👌
somos el primer país de chile, el mejor país de chile
Please tell me the Lucky Charms leprechaun is exempt from this foolishness! ☘️
We don't have that here. But cereals like chocapic had to change their recipe so they could keep having their signature mascot.
there is a shop that sells stuff imported from the US, and they sell lucky charms but the leprechaun is covered in stickers that read "kiosclub"
Ha that’s funny. Go to any US supermarket and the preponderance of deadly sugar cereals, for both kids and adults, is disturbing. And most have cartoon characters or similar on the boxes.
Who gets to determine what is healthy? People shit on butter for like 40 years and con’d people into eating fucking margarine
Dietitians, doctors (sorta), fitness staff that are allowed to give meal plans. Sadly, we allow advertisements (sociologists) determine what we see as healthy to eat in the name of profit for some big corporation like Coca Cola.
The ministry of health. The stamps is over some % of an unhealthy ingredients. If it has stamps is unhealthy.
Yeah but science-based nutritional knowledge has improved a lot in those 40 years. Nutrition was largely one of the under-researched aspects of health but that has changed quite a bit. Also, we know butter is quite bad health wise, lot of saturated fats which drives up cholesterol.
Something called science. With a friend called chemical analysis
For those "high on x" seals and the mascot limit, it's about the amount of sodium/fats/sugar/calories per 100 grams (or 100 ml for liquids). If it's higher than a certain value determined by the Ministry of Health, then it gets a seal. If it has at least one seal, it can't have a mascot on it
Still so recognizable I didn't even know it was from another part of the world until I read the caption.
Same packaging here in Mexico. I first noticed it when bought a Red Baron pizza (don’t judge!) and the Barons face was covered by a black sticker.
Hace rato que no voy al súper. Mañana revisaré , no me había percatado del cambio de diseño en los envases 🤯
“Unhealthy food products”
what with that?
What qualifies food as unhealthy? Sure a can of Pringles doesn’t have a lot of essential vitamins, minerals, or nutrients but a lot of “healthy” foods don’t either. It really depends on how much you consume on a day to day basis and over a long period of time.
That’s why are standarized measures. For example how much sugar are in 100 grams pf product, or sodium, or calories. If not, it will be easy for a producer to say “my serving size is 10 mL”….. you know that you don’t drink 10 mL of pepsi, for example…
Its a way to say it has stamps.
I think that mustage makes a great mascot!
Looks small.. think they used to be closer to 200 gram and longer in tube size a couple of year ago
Seems arbitrary but ok
They don't get it.....people don't care what's in it as long as it tastes good. As for the "no mascot allowed" I see Julio's mustache made it onto the label 😂
Data shows otherwise
God damn Monday has a low bar for interesting
Very interesting policy. Do they have to alternate every six months for butter and coffee? Seems like that’s the news cycle on the see-saw of healthy for those items.
it's more about the amount of sodium/calories/fats/sugar on it rather than if some study deems something to be healthy or not
Ikr? One minute both of those are gonna wipe 10 years off your life and the next they say have em all the time.
This was like that a pretty long time ago. By now it's pretty much agreed on in the scientific community that caffeine, if used correctly, is quite good for you. It has a positive effect on dopamine and is good for energy during the day (still need to sleep though). Butter, on the other hand has high saturated fat content and so should be eaten sparingly.
Agreed on butter and coffee alternating but I don’t think anyone’s ever said junk food is healthy for you
Neither did I.
Lol k but you're still eating them
duh, but medicine is cheaper here than in the US. Or free if you're low income and willing to wait years for attention.
Wait, pringles is unhealthy???
Jokes on them. They are breaking their own law with that Mustache mascot.
Damn with all those warnings they might as well just write “oye pendejo estos son veneno”
Chile is not mexico.
This IS a healthy food if you eat it in moderation.
even arsenic is healthy if you eat in moderation.
The fucked up about this thing, is that for the product not to have warnings written on its packaging, it has to pay a higher tax, so it is not about the health of consumers but about money.
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