Misleading

Picked up some plastic wrap (well, I didn't, but someone here did). Apparently it's really good stuff. It has a little official looking symbol, and it says “certified” on it. Certified plastic wrap? That's good, I was worried it might be either paper towels or aluminum foil. And we all know stupid wax paper is always trying to pass itself off as pastic wrap!

Anyway, the annoying punch line of course is that Certified™ is just a trademark of the company that makes it (admitted in fine print on the back); they stick that on everything they make… I don't know… That's right up there with “you can call it organic if it's too expensive to actually make it organic“.

“CERTIFIED”, “KEEPS FOOD FRESH”, AND “100% MONEY BACK GUARANTEE” ARE TRADEMARKS OF THE DRUG TRADING COMPANY LIMITED, MARKHAM ON. IN CANADA AND WORLDWIDE. THESE PRODUCT NAMES ARE USED FOR IDENTIFICATION PURPOSES ONLY AND BME AND/OR SHANNON LARRATT MAKE NO CLAIM TO THE TERMS “CERTIFIED” OR “100% MONEY BACK GUARANTEE” WHICH WERE CLEARLY INVENTED BY THIS MANUFACTURER OF BUDGET PLASTIC WRAP AND OTHER FINE PRODUCTS. THE OWNERSHIP OF “KEEPS FOOD FRESH” IS IN DISPUTE THOUGH.

PS. In the non-misleading category, two more verifications have been added.

Wow Shannon, that's really annoying! What is it, 1997 on Geocities? Retroweb is NOT cool!

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