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Wednesday, August 11, 2004
Truth In Advertising or Lousy Labeling
I’m not one to have the government enter our lives and tell us what we should and shouldn’t do or know or shouldn’t know, but I think there is a need for the government to impose truth in labeling, especially on packages of …………toilet tissue!Recently I had an occasion to sit down and take a load off when I realized that I didn’t have anything to read. I was desperate to find something to quench my thirst for knowledge. What I found was a toilet tissue package.
I was amazed by the claims made by the manufacturers of this product. Soft, strong, lasts longer, 100 sheets per roll?
Let’s take these claims one at a time.
Soft, of course toilet tissue is soft. That’s why we don’t go to Home Depot to buy it. If it was sold by Home Depot, it would be rated like sandpaper. “I’ll have some of that 40 grit toilet tissue.”
Lasts longer? I don’t care what it’s made of, would you use it for more than one
(s)wipe!
100 sheets per roll? Do I have any volunteers to count a roll of toilet tissue? I think not. If you did count it, do you think you could roll it back on the roll the way it was when you started? Probably not. And if you did count it and you had only 99 sheets, could you return it and get your money back? You could say to the store clerk "honest, I didn't use it." Would he or she believe you? Do you think he or she would be able to tell?
I’m going to write a letter to the government and ask them to have the toilet tissue manufacturers put truthful labels on the toilet tissue. Or maybe just directions that say “use once and discard.”
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