A slightly altered version of this happened to me last night. I hardly ever crave salty food, but for the life of me I just really wanted to eat some good old fashioned snack mix...the kind with those oddly shaped crunchy things that are some kind of weird pretzel/potato chip/rice cake love-child. I had to pick up some laundry detergent and few other things at e-Mart (a great grocery store by my apartment) so I decided to add my snack mix to the list, though I was sure I wouldn't be able to find it here.
After scouring the aisles of e-Mart, you can imagine my delight when I finally picked up a package with a picture depicting the EXACT snack mix that I was craving! Of course the entire label was written in Korean, but the image on the front of the bag told me everything I needed to know.
By the time I got home I was so excited - my craving would be fulfilled after all! I turned on my tv and popped open the bag and smelled...Huh?! That doesn't smell like my snack mix. I peered inside the bag: looks normal. So why does it smell so gross?!
I walked over to the kitchen and dumped the contents on the counter - something was definitely amiss, and I was determined to get to the bottom of this. Unfortunately, this is what I found...
Look closely, my friends. That's right. Those bite-sized silver things mixed in with the rest of my wonderfully delicious snack mix are FISH. Nasty little dead, dried & salted FISH. And you can CLEARLY see that nowhere on the label is there a picture of a nasty little fish mixed in with the rest of the crunchy goodness. What the heck!
False advertising is not a laughing matter.
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