Frazz by Jef Mallett for March 13, 2021

Hah. I see what Mallett did there.

Yes, we read the labels, and if we don’t like what we see, we don’t buy it.

I once saw a bag of walnuts and the label said “Might contain nuts”. I didn’t buy it, because I was afraid what would be in it if it didn’t contain nuts.

Of course “sugar water” is mostly water, and water is healthy. In fact, for active people, sugar is fine too.

love the flow of the pun into the last panel. sometimes i have to look hard for the flow, but these last two days were pretty good

At least the label is honest, unlike Post Grape-Nuts, which contains neither.

Kid is quick, but not wise. At least not yet. That’ll come when the kid begins to differentiate between being suckered by advertising and being conned by manufacturers.

Once bought a bottle of, “100% pure cranberry juice, no sugar added.” Learned they were trying to warn me. Had to cut it with 151 rum to make it drinkable.

Now technically the juice itself contains sugar and water, so the drink is over 90% sugar water.

Is “drink box” actually something people say? I’ve never heard it before.

And then we have ‘orange flavored breakfast beverage’. Not one drop of orange juice. Or Hi-C, calling itself Orange Drink. Again, no orange joooss.