Pedants: What "Facts" Have Annoyed You Lately?

[NotQuiteCockney]

I keep going into a nice baker, which has sourdough breads, with a big sign saying they're "yeast free". They're not bloody well yeast free, they just don't have added yeast.

I'm also unduly annoyed by things that are chemical-free, when that expression just doesn't make any sense ...

Make me feel like less of a freak! Share your pedanty annoyances. (No greengrocer's apostrophe stories, please ...)

Shouldn't that be "greengrocers'"

I hate it when it says "A more healthy option for your child: 100% sugar free", and then the list of ingredients shows aspartame and many E numbers in it. Would rather have the sugar...

I find it hilarious hearing those people who complain about Mc Donalds but feed their children white bread, frozen chicken fingers, and Fruit Shots on a very regular basis. The only thing that is different is that their children are not getting a plastic toy with their meals... So more ecological yes, healthier.... I doubt it.

Pedant, does that mean person of a pedantic persuasion

Or things like sugar, being 100% fat free.
It's sugar FGS

Organic food. It is all bloody organic unless it is made of non carbon compounds!

Advert for Nutella: Less fat than peanut butter, less sugar than jam ...

I was in a park cafe today and "homebaked potatos" [sic] were on the menu, when they were clearly baked on the premises. Duh!

And when things say "Only 96% fat" ... um well that means it must be 4% fat ...
That is a good thing is it?

Thank you martianbishop - that one annoys me too!

I bought some prawns and on the back it said 'warning may contain seafood' - bloody hope so!

I saw a magazine called Organic Life in WHS.
I presume non carbon based life forms don't need their own magazine.

Organic food in French is "biological" which somehow seems sillier to me than "organic".

near miss. If you nearly miss you hit something!

Yes, Inorganic Life won't have many takers, will it ...

Whenever I see an advertising slogan or similar, I always imagine whether the opposite could be true. Waitrose is always going on about how their fruit and veg are from "selected farms". As opposed to what? Random roadsides? Every factory? What other option is there?

for some reason I get very irritated by signs saying "this door is alarmed".
I always think - about what is it alarmed?
(It's probably correct, though, strictly speaking.)

Oh, and "no sugar added" products that are very sweet, thanks to apple juice or grape juice or something in that line. They're not actually significantly better for you than good old sugar, if at all ...

hand cooked crisps, Christ that must hurt!

I remember Walkers - as much vitamin C as an apple!

Woweeeeeeeeeee

British signage is much more verbiose than the Canadian equivalent. Nobody in Canada ever puts the flowery touches on signs that you get here ... We would just say Alarm, I think.

That whole "Prithee sir and madam, do not position your vehicle so as to block this entrance. Thank you for your considerateness." thing just doesn't happen back home.

Ah yes, the bag of nuts that has the warning "May contain/Contains nuts". No shit.....

Anything that is "Fat free" "Sugar Free"....like they arent charging you for the 'benefit'....

And, like "fat free" doesn't normally mean "loaded with sugar and chemicals", and "sugar free" doesn't normally mean "loaded with fat and chemicals".

When looking for dairy-free food, I often find that anything describing itself as "Creamy" is a good start. I'm not kidding!

oh, had a good giggle at these...and am glad I am not the only one that harbours these thoughts when reading these sort of things!
The ad that gets me at the moment is the SMA one, where they claim they formulate their milk to the needs of "YOUR" (special intonation there, implying its made to individulal needs) Baby.......think they would find that difficult!

LOL at Martianbishop's comment on the handcooked crisps.
On a related note, Kettle Chips being made 'without science'.