Loyal reader Michael submitted this story:

So I’m in the line at the grocery and I have two boxes of microwave popcorn. My wife doesn’t like the heavy butter so I get one box of light butter and one box of butter lovers. As usual, some bonehead in front of me needs a price check. So I’m stuck. I’m past the mags but not quite to checkout. I had nothing to do. So I read the popcorn boxes.

Check this shit out. The ingredients in the light butter box contained butter. But the ingredients in the butter lovers contained no butter. To add insult to injury, the light butter box contained soy, milk and egg. What the hell? If I wanted milk and eggs, I would eat breakfast. But the atrocities didn’t stop there.

I looked at the Nutrition Facts, the RDA. There was a category for “popped” and for - are you ready for this - “unpopped“. That means some poor bastard somewhere felt that it was necessary to add the “unpopped” RDA percentages. So did someone along the way crack open a bag and start eating the kernels and say, “I wonder how much of this shit I gotta eat to meet the recommended daily allowance?” Did they get sued and have to add it? Is there someone out there that is so anal that they felt it was necessary?

I tried to share this shocking news with the people in line. The nice lady behind me didn’t care. And the cashier rushed me through. Then when I got home, my wife rolled her eyes and told me to take out the trash.

Am I the only one who thinks this is strange?

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