Are You A Label Reader?

[SD1]

Top quality whale vomit!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-34368198

I am not sure that link works

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-25724670

 

[Tin Pot]

I hardly ever read labels but I always read the price.

Perhaps there is a way to weave the rules into the price tag, so you can't help but read both...

 

[jefmcg]

It would have to have been antique ambergris.

Fresh ambergris is covered by CITES.

does "fresh" ambergris have a meaning? https://cites.org/sites/default/files/eng/cop/16/doc/E-CoP16-25-A3.pdf doesn't mention it. Either way, ambergris is fair game in the UK http://us.whales.org/blog/2015/09/ambergris-lucky-lucrative-and-legal

2 thoughts

1. is this "new" to anybody? I can't remember when i first heard of ambergris, found floating in the sea and a vital constituent of perfumes I don't think are that wonderful? It was certainly well before the start of the 21st century.
2. apparently whales excrete it via their colons, so it's whale poo, not whale vomit.

 

[gavgav]

Only when deciding whether clothes can be tumble dried or not....Food, not a chance, it's bad enough knowing how much salt and sugar is in all the things I like!

 

[Oldbloke]

Nah, somebody got caught rimming a beaver and had to think on their feet to come up with an excuse. Now everyone's pretending it's a delicacy and nobody's got the cojones to admit that it all just started because of somebody's weird fetish for woodland creatures. It's the emperor's new clothes with bumjuice.

 

[biggs682]

Read labels pah, we'll be following instructions and asking for directions next....

is that not what the females were put on the planet for ???

 

[SD1]

Only when deciding whether clothes can be tumble dried or not....Food, not a chance, it's bad enough knowing how much salt and sugar is in all the things I like!

What's a tumble dryer? Is it something attached to your front wheel?

 

[RichardB]

Unless I am buying fresh veg or fruit or meat from the butcher, I always read the labels. And put the vast majority of crap back on the shelf.

 

[classic33]

Unless I am buying fresh veg or fruit or meat from the butcher, I always read the labels. And put the vast majority of crap back on the shelf.

Like this?

 

[RichardB]

Like this?
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Absolutely like that. Don't eat anything you can't pronounce.

 

[classic33]

Absolutely like that. Don't eat anything you can't pronounce.

Which can't you pronounce? Does that mean you'd not eat it?

 

[RichardB]

Which can't you pronounce? Does that mean you'd not eat it?

You know exactly what I meant

 

[classic33]

You know exactly what I meant

I bet you bought some last week!

 

[RichardB]

Yes, it's on the walls of the living room right now, and matches the curtains beautifully.

 

[classic33]

Yes, it's on the walls of the living room right now, and matches the curtains beautifully.

Each to their own I suppose. Won't be there much longer though.