Is it nuts to assume a scoop of pistachio ice cream should contain actual pistachios? Or how about real butter in a dish of butter pecan?
Such weighty questions about a favorite summertime confection could soon be decided by the courts.
A federal judge in New York has given the go-ahead to a Long Island woman’s class action lawsuit that claims consumers are being duped by Cold Stone Creamery when they purchase certain flavors that “do not contain their represented ingredients.”
Lead plaintiff Jenna Marie Duncan purchased her serving of pistachio ice cream from a Cold Stone Creamery store in Levittown, New York, in or around July 2022. According her lawsuit, Duncan “reasonably believed that the Pistachio ice cream she purchased from defendant contained pistachio.”
I do look for that, but sometimes I’m not paying 100% attention (the fact that I need laser focus to fucking buy water is another issue).
It also doesn’t help when manufacturers use shrinkflation as an opportunity to update their packaging (is this a new product or just a smaller version of the old one?)
It ALSO doesn’t help that they love to put the saccharine shit - sorry, the “artificially sweetened” - nope, not right either - the “sweetened with something that’s not sugar” crap right next to the water. They want it to be healthy-by-association. It needs to be next to the sodas though, since it’s a drink for people looking for an alternatively sweet product. Those of us looking for water aren’t interested in it, which all adds up to making me think their marketing plan is to get people to buy it on accident.
I know people who genuinely don’t like stuff like LaCroix because they say there isn’t enough flavor, and instead drink the sickly sweet swill like “Sparkling Ice.” My best man is like this. There are many things about him I cannot comprehend, and this is one of them.
So the market certainly exists.