Made with real girl scouts?

[firstfrost]

I enclose pictures of the recent Refreshing Beverage I had. (I connected it to the firewire cable because everyone seemed to like that so much for the Gloom). I was going to write a rant about it, but... I don't actually have to, do I?

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[navrins]

Smacks of miscommunication to me.

Label designer: "Okay, I've got the text and some nice pictures of lemons, what do you think?"

Marketing manager: "We can't say it's made with real lemons."

Label designer: "Okay, what good thing should we say it's made with?"

MM: "Oh, just say not from concentrate."

LD: "But all the other bottles say 'Made with' something there. That would make this one different."

MM: "No, don't make this one different."

LD: "So what good thing can I say it's made with if it's not real lemons?"

MM: "I told you, it's not from concentrate."

LD: "No, but-- oh, fine."

[firstfrost.livejournal.com]

I did even investigate the other Tropicana things in our refrigerator - they all have the phrase "Not from Concentrate" without the "Made with". I suspect, myself, that the people in Tropicana have spent so long talking about their "not from concentrate" as a shorthand for not-from-concentrate-lemon-juice that they've forgotten that it's not a noun to normal people.