Fruit labels
A special spot in hell should be reserved for whichever sadist it was that invented those little labels they stick on fruit so the cashiers know how to ring them up. It's impossible to get them off without a pair of tweezers sometimes, and it's almost completely impossible to remove them from soft, ripe fruit like the succulent black plums taunting me right now, sitting in the bowl on my kitchen counter.
You figure that in an age of genetically modified food, can't some mad scientist at ADM or somewhere else come up with a fruit skin that already has a bar code or produce code embedded on it?
Comments
These stupid fruit labels (or stickers) have been around since at least 1999.
A minor irritant for the consumer, fruit labels have got to be a major pain in the * for people in the business of putting together gift baskets.
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Posted by: CapeCoder | August 1, 2003 08:51 AM
Huh. I got one on me ass right now. Meh.
Posted by: chocolate-covered treat | August 1, 2003 09:47 AM