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Lite CrÃ¨me

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Lite CrÃ¨me	comment	The implication of qualities or ingredients in a product that aren't there because of certain words or spellings of words that vary from the standard. This is usually done to get around government regulations on truth in advertising laws. This is how you end up with products like fruit "punch" when a drink contains no actual fruit juice, "choc" or "choco" when something contains little to no actual chocolate, and "creme" spread that contains no dairy cream. The intent of the law was to prevent advertisers from using words like "chocolate" and "cream" to describe products that didn't contain the ingredients mentioned, but the feds didn't count on consumer illiteracy; too many people now assume that "froot with choco creme" is the same thing as "fruit with chocolate cream", and assume they're getting vitamins, minerals, and flavor they really aren't. And advertisers happily take advantage of it. Generally speaking, added quantifiers indicate lower amounts of an actual ingredient. If the product also uses Xtreme Kool Letterz, any nutritional value and unadded flavors are likely an unintentional side-effect. You're probably better off eating Soylent Green. (Much more nutritious and tasty than Soylent Yellow and Red!) Consumers during the age of mass food production in the 19th century lobbied against artificial foods being sold alongside "normal" food and demanded such food be distinctly labeled; margarine, for example, received a push to be dyed pink so consumers would not confuse it for actual butter, and for a while it was illegal in some places to sell margarine that was dyed butter-yellow (it's naturally white, and even today, margarine is dyed bright yellow whereas natural butter is pale). Company lobbyists learned using Lite Creme was an easy escape, as no one wanted an ominous "artificial" label on their product. Official nutritional labels on products are somewhat more informative, though overly technical writing can obscure this for the same reasons. Ingredients being listed in decreasing order does not specify actual amounts, nor does the use of several names to indicate variations on essentially the same ingredient. Lite Creme products may in fact taste like "normal" foods anyway, and brands being sold directly as food replacements (such as vegan) directly advertise as such. In general, as All-Natural Snake Oil can tell you, there's nothing particularly wrong with something being a processed food in and of itself, and things that are "natural" can be just as unhealthy as Froot Choco-Cheez. Generally though, Lite Creme in the public image brings to mind bizarre concoctions of usually unhealthy additives. See also Asbestos-Free Cereal and The Coconut Effect. Compare Bland-Name Product, when your Froot'n'Nutz Choco-bar is made by "Cadberry's."
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Lite CrÃ¨me / int_13679a09	comment	In Ward, one chapter has two men attempting to steal goods from a supermarket. The more experienced man advises his student to look for products with the wrong names, such as 'cleansing bars' instead of 'soap'- things that are so full of preservatives that the makers aren't legally allowed to call it what it's meant to be, because the preservatives mean that the goods last and can be resold.
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Lite CrÃ¨me / int_160b4833	comment	Clone High features "X-Stream Blu," which is packed with "nutramites" and has a list of healthful-sounding "ingrediments"... follows by its actual ingredients, which are pancake batter and blue house paint.
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Lite CrÃ¨me / int_1e9b6aa9	comment	Sam & Max go to the carnival to bust a bootleg corndog seller, whose establishment proudly proclaims "It's fooode!" (trademark).
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Lite CrÃ¨me / int_2350acad	comment	In Cheers, Cliff mentions a favourite restaurant that serves "loobster" (with two "o"s). Loobster was actually an alternative to the restaurant's specialty, "Roast Bif."
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Lite CrÃ¨me / int_261c8d3f	comment	Many Krusty Brand products in The Simpsons TV show and comic books fall under this trope: The Krusty Burger (a "meat-flavored sandwich"). Krusty Partially Gelatinated Non-Dairy Gum-Based Beverage. Krusty's Non-Dairy Non-Ice Cream Whey Product Sandwich. Krusty Brand Bite-A-Min's Imitation Vitamins. Krusty Burger's Beef-Flavored Chicken. At least they were honest about their Whatchamacarcass Sandwich. The school cafeteria serves "malk" instead of milk. It may or may not come from rats. Now with Vitamin R! The teacher's lounge offers "coffee-flavoured beverine" with "creamium". The kids at Kamp Krusty were served Krusty Brand Imitation Gruel.
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Lite CrÃ¨me / int_3ccfa555	comment	In Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney â€“ Trials and Tribulations, there's a scene where Phoenix tries a meal from the restaurant Tres Bien. Maya (temporarily working as a waitress) introduces the meal as some complicatedly-named dish involving lobster. When you discuss the (horrible) meal with the owner and chief cook of the restaurant, and Maya mentions the complicated name, he tells her that there is no lobster in the dish. He reminds her that the menu clearly states that it's a dish inspired by [complicated lobster dish], and Phoenix remarks "but it may not contain any actual lobster."
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Lite CrÃ¨me / int_3defe34c	comment	Chemistry YouTuber NileRed discussed this concept as it pertains to "processed cheese"/"American cheese" in "Making American cheese to debunk a conspiracy" from his NileBlue side channel. Nigel acknowledges the red flags in what the product is described to be, namely the packaging describing it as a "cheddar-style process cheese product" due to health boards like the FDA in the US preventing them from legally calling it bona-fide "cheese" — combined with processed cheese's uniquely plastic-y appearance, this has led to the modern assumption that it's some horrible, artificial and deeply unhealthy product meant to trick uneducated suckers. However, Nigel demonstrates by making some of it himself that it very much consists heavily of real cheddar cheese, and is "processed" by way of adding water, butter, milk powder, and bits of scary-sounding, but fundamentally innocuous chemicals made to emulsify everything like salts. He concludes that while some caution is to be taken over what it legally can and can't be named, "processed cheese" is not some unethical chemical abomination masquerading itself as something palatable — it's simply diluted with preservatives past an agreed-upon legal threshold of what defines pure cheese, and isn't much worse putting in your body than cheddar.
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Lite CrÃ¨me / int_455e3038	comment	King of the Hill had Hank go into a health food store and get "not dogs". They're hot dogs made from tofu. He responded that he was allergic to tofu. Not surprisingly, they had fauxfu. What would "fauxfu" be made from? The show doesn't say, but there are pseudo-tofus available to the soy-allergic, often made from wheat gluten...which other people are allergic to.
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Lite CrÃ¨me / int_468bebb0	comment	Discworld: CMOT Dibbler's genuine pig sausages. Not exactly pork, but definitely pig. Seldom Bucket, the cheesemaker from Maskerade, has an advertisement in The Compleat Ankh-Morpork City Guide for his "Mostly Cheese Spreads".
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Lite CrÃ¨me / int_4a94a5fc	comment	Seldom Bucket, the cheesemaker from Maskerade, has an advertisement in The Compleat Ankh-Morpork City Guide for his "Mostly Cheese Spreads".
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Lite CrÃ¨me / int_61237923	comment	Parodied in Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! with the phony lamb product, "H'amb". It's a ham loaf with the "essence of lamb" mixed in with it. It even comes with a lamb scent spray to drive the illusion further.
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Lite CrÃ¨me / int_74fb542e	comment	In a That Mitchell and Webb Look sketch set in the research department of haircare product makers Laboratoire Garnier, Monsieur Garnier congratulates one lab technician on the invention of the word 'Nutrisse' — "Which sounds like 'nutrition' but doesn't guarantee it." Also mocked in the Parody Commercials for Didldidi (itself a Bland-Name Product version of Lidl), which advertise products such as a "chicken-style oven roaster," labeled "Land Gull."
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Lite CrÃ¨me / int_75907260	comment	Apparently averted in the Fallout world, where it's common to find "Apples" and "Salisbury Steak" that are still edible after 200 years. Fallout Tactics lampshades the improbability of accurate labels on pre-war foodstuffs (and at that point, it's a mere 120 years). Given the Atom Punk nature of the Pre-War setting, it's not hard to infer the equally unappealing possibility that they are real food, but simply remain edible because they were irradiated to the point that no bacteria would dare go near them.
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Lite CrÃ¨me / int_858624ba	comment	In Will & Grace the eponymous pair dine at a restaurant which serves Lobbster stuffed with Cheeeeese.
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Lite CrÃ¨me / int_863b7825	comment	The 1984 Christmas special of Yes, Minister, "Party Games," gives us an invocation: An EEC regulation regarding sausages was in the works that would force the vast majority of British bangers to be sold not as sausages but as "emulsified high-fat offal tubes" because they consisted mostly of fillers like fat, entrails, and bread rusk rather than actual meat. By the end of the episode, however, Hacker gets the Eurocrats to agree to allow them to be sold instead as "British sausages," a feat he rides to Number Ten.
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Lite CrÃ¨me / int_974f7efb	comment	One episode of The Drew Carey Show had him accidentally buying his girlfriend a box of "beljan chorklet".
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Lite CrÃ¨me / int_9b602c3f	comment	Burgerpants' counterpart in Deltarune works as a mascot selling "pezza". In his own words, he has been told:
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Lite CrÃ¨me / int_a183d57f	comment	In the Futurama episode "Fry Am The Egg Man", the Planet Express crew go to a fast food restaurant called Fishy Joe's and Leela orders a fruit cup:
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Lite CrÃ¨me / int_b05d40f	comment	In Sister, Sister, the twins worked at a food court burger stand for a while. Their main product was a sandwich that could not be legally called a "hamburger" due to its use of a "meat-like patty".
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Lite CrÃ¨me / int_bd0407d8	comment	Ad Turds, among many other things to do with deconstructing dishonesty and sloppy standards in advertising, as well as the tendency of ad agencies to treat consumers like dolts, regularly vilifies examples of such weasel words in advertising.
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Lite CrÃ¨me / int_c2297a9c	comment	Spoofed in Judge Dredd where the fizzy wine-like beverage is called Shampane. note French winemakers are pressing for champagne made outside of one region in France to be called "sparkling wine". Their success has been mixed, but around 2006, they hit a breakthrough: the US, which normally doesn't go for this kind of thing, agreed to ban sales of "champagne" that wasn't actually from Champagne in France, with a Grandfather Clause allowing US brands that had used the term "champagne" before the agreement was signed to continue doing so as long as they put the place of origin (usually California) prominently and close to the word "champagne." Believe it or not, most of the better vintners in America liked this—they're attempting to establish their own identities, and relying on European names is holding them back. Endemic in Dredd, since it's a Soylent Soy future. Mockchoc is another one.
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Lite CrÃ¨me / int_c59ec4c1	comment	And to add insult to injury, these flavors — whether natural or artificial — rarely taste anything like what they're supposed to imitate. This is because the flavors of actual fruits and such are fascinatingly complex blends of up to thousands of chemicals, which are tricky (and expensive) to make in a lab. What cheap producers often do is simply isolate the few strongest chemicals in the flavor and synthesize that. This is how you get "strawberry flavor" In Name Only.
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Lite CrÃ¨me / int_d0799db8	comment	One of the Advertising examples above is subtly referenced in Jurassic Park. Hammond serves his guests "Chilean sea bass", which as noted is just toothfish with a fancier name, at the luxury hotel. It's foreshadowing of his attempts to cut corners despite having "spared no expense".
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Lite CrÃ¨me / int_d452935b	comment	"Vegan" does not equal "vegetarian", so it's dangerous when you see a "vegan" product that really shouldn't be vegan (like "vegan chicken parmesan"). This is why you get such products as "vegan frozen dessert product", "vegan chik'n", "vegan wyngz" made out of texturized soy protein, and "diced meatless chiqin" actually made out of fungal protein.
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Lite CrÃ¨me / int_f6c05e8e	comment	In one episode of Friends, Monica takes a job attempting to create palatable recipes using "Mockolate". Which may or may not have been made out of pure, concentrated evil.
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