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* Gob's banana stand in ArrestedDevelopment. "Finally a frozen banana that won't make you sick and kill you!"

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* [[http://xkcd.com/641/ This]] ''{{xkcd}}'' strip, which provides the page image and is the TropeNamer. [[http://xkcd.com/463/ This one]], too.

* The anti-GMO movement is so popular now, that some manufacturers put non-GM labels even on salt. For those, who don' know, it is impossible to genetically modify salt, because it doesn't have any genes, it is not an organism. I believe, soon we will have non-GM baking soda, water and maybe even non-GM asbestos (which is still bad, but not as bad as the GM one, ofcourse).
* Similar to the "Over X hours of gameplay!" listed above, many games would advertise having "Over X characters!" or something, and then would have X+1. A particularly bad example is ''BatenKaitos'': It advertised "Over 1000 [[FightLikeACardPlayer Magnus]]!", and it has 1022. Which included things like plot and sidequest items, photos you take of enemies to sell them for cash since there's no {{Money Spider}}s, healing expendables and a whole bunch of crap in general.

* Enriched flour sounds like it should taste better then other kinds of flour doesn't it? All it means is that some, but not all, of the nutrients lost during processing have been replaced, likely by synthetic vitamins.

* [[Tropers/MsChibi This Troper]] opened a tea bag that read "Gluten Free." Unless the tea company is moonlighting as a flour mill (which is ''highly'' unlikely), there wouldn't be any [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gluten gluten]] to be found in a tea bag![[hottip:*: Sometimes gluten is added to foods to stabilize them, but that's only things like ketchup or ice cream (check the labels or call the number if you have celiac disease or other gluten sensitivity), but that ''still'' wouldn't apply to ''tea leaves''!]]

* [[Tropers/MsChibi This Troper]] opened a tea bag that read "Gluten Free." Unless the tea company is moonlighting as a flour mill (which is ''highly'' unlikely), there wouldn't be any [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gluten gluten]] to be found in a tea bag!

* [[MsChibi This Troper]] opened a tea bag that read "Gluten Free." Unless the tea company is moonlighting as a flour mill (which is ''highly'' unlikely), there wouldn't be any [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gluten gluten]] to be found in a tea bag!

* Similar to the "Over X hours of gameplay!" listed above, many games would advertise having "Over X characters!" or something, and then would have X+1. A particularly bad example is ''BatenKaitos'': It advertised "Over 1000 [[YouFightLikeACardPlayer Magnus]]!", and it has 1022. Which included things like plot and sidequest items, photos you take of enemies to sell them for cash since there's no {{Money Spider}}s, healing expendables and a whole bunch of crap in general.

* Similar to the "Over X hours of gameplay!" listed above, many games would advertise having "Over X characters!" or something, and then would have X+1. A partucularly bad example is ''BatenKaitos'': It advertised "Over 1000 [[YouFightLikeACardPlayer Magnus]]!", and it has 1022. Which included things like plot and sidequest items, photos you take of enemies to sell them for cash since there's no {{Money Spider}}s, healing expendables and a whole bunch of crap in general.

** On the other hand, synthetic vitamins are exactly as nutritious as natural ones, and the "processing" is the milling process that makes white flour. And many people loathe whole wheat flour, because it tastes bitter to them.

* In a rather controversial case AFACT a lobby group of dairy farmers sponsored by hormone giant Monsanto invoked this trope. AFACT tried to have labels stating that milk and dairy was free of bovine growth hormones banned because consumers prefer their milk growth hormone free (there are no hormones in the milk. It is chemically identical, but cows treated with it produce more milk). Their argument ran that the labels were confusing consumers into thinking that there was a health difference, and that the growth hormones were FDA approved so they shouldn't be punished for using them. So far they've been unsuccessful.

For bonus points, the ad can imply that competitors' products fail to measure up to the same standards. After all, if this brand of dry cereal proclaims so loudly that it is 100% fat free while the rest are silent, that means other brands are just dripping with lard, right?

** TalesOfSymphonia did one better: They advertised "over 80 hours of gameplay". Actual time to the completion of the storyline, with obnoxious LevelGrinding and dubious SideQuests: around 40 hours. But they've got a NewGamePlus feature, so that's forty hours, ''twice'', which is ''totally'' the same thing as eighty hours!

* "100% Pure Olive Oil." Nowadays all olive oil is 100% pure - if it weren't, it would have to be marketed as "vegetable oil," and no sane manufacturer would waste expensive olive oil on that. However, before 1994 it was perfectly acceptable to blend up to 10% unrefined ''peanut oil'' - and unrefined peanut oil is chock full of peanut protein - into American olive oil. Four deaths in one year caused the law to change.

* "100% Pure Olive Oil." All olive oil is 100% pure - if it weren't, it would have to be marketed as "vegetable oil," and no sane manufacturer would waste expensive olive oil on that.

* Any "wheat" bread that is actually mostly white bread with a small portion of wheat.

* [[http://xkcd.com/641/ This]] ''{{xkcd}}'' strip, which provides the page image and is the TropeNamer.

* In a rather controversial case AFACT a lobby group of dairy farmers sponsored by hormone giant Monsanto invoked this trope. AFACT tried to have labels stating that milk and dairy was free of bovine growth hormones banned because consumers prefer their milk growth hormone free (their worries are quite possibly legitimate) but cows treated with it produce more milk. Their argument ran that the labels were ' confusing ' consumers and that the growth hormones were FDA approved so they shouldn't be punished for using them. So far they've been unsuccesful.