History PlayingWith / AsbestosFreeCereal

* '''Invoked''': Hatter's Choice Teas want to market their product to a world that no longer drinks tea for its own sake, and is obsessed with dieting.

** Products are labeled as containing cyanide by default, and Hatter's Choice Teas didn't want to pay the money to do the lab work showing it doesn't contain it.

** Hatter's Choice Teas are forced by law to advertise that they contain cyanide, so they can't deceive would-be buyers.

* '''Parodied''': Hatter's Choice Teas are advertised as ''matter-free'', which is obviously not true.

* '''Downplayed''': Their herbal teas are advertised as "caffeine-free", [[ViewersAreMorons just in case buyers don't know what "herbal tea" is]].
* '''Justified''': Hatter's Choice Teas needs to market its products and set its products apart from the rest, and still follow truth-in-advertising laws. (Truth-in-advertising laws + marketing x [[ViewersAreMorons dimwitted potential buyers]])

* '''Subverted''':
** HereComesTheScience: the antioxidant benefits of Hatter's Choice Teas are trumped up.

** ** Hatter's Choice Teas are advertised as fair-trade, organic or high quality - qualities which can be much more easily advertised than others.

** Hatter's Choice Teas are advertised as fair-trade, organic, etc.

* '''Averted''': Hatter's Choice does not trump up claims about their product being calorie-free and sugar-free

* '''Straight''': [[Literature/AliceInWonderland Hatter's Choice]] Teas are advertised as being fat-free, calorie-free, and sugar-free. While this is true, ''all'' tea leaves are fat-free, calorie-free, and sugar-free.

* '''Downplayed''': Their herbal teas are advertised as "caffeine-free", [[ViewersAreMorons just in case viewers don't know what "herbal tea" is]].

** Fine print under where it says it's calorie free says something along the lines of "provided you don't add milk or sugar."

** A simple [[PigLatin Ooglegay]] search would show that a) Hatter's Choice Teas have the same antioxidants as any other tea and b) one would have to drink ''gallons'' of tea every single day just to get the alleged health and beauty benefits of said antioxidants.

** It's small and inconspicuous, and few tea-buyers would bother to ReadTheFinePrint anyways.

* '''Discussed''': "Since when do tea leaves have carbs, fat, and calories?" "They don't, unless you add milk and/or sugar. Hatter's Choice just wants to jump on the Health Kick Bandwagon to make more money."

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* '''Enforced''': "We want TropeCo to have a bad ad campaign, to show that our main characters - the company's customers - are [[DumbIsGood dumb and therefore heroic]]." "I know! Let's have them advertise claims that are given. They could sell 'arsenic-free' candy bars or something."

* '''Exaggerated''': Hatter's Choice Teas are advertised as containing no cyanide.

* '''Justified''': Hatter's Choice Teas needs to market its products and set its products apart from the rest, and still follow truth-in-advertising laws.
* '''Inverted''': OurProductSucks

** HereComesTheScience: the antioxidant benefits of Hatter's Choice Teas are trumped up

* '''Parodied''': Hatter's Choice Teas are advertised as ''matter-free''.

* '''Enforced''': Truth-in-advertising laws + marketing x [[ViewersAreMorons potential buyers are morons]]

* '''Defied''': Hatter's Choice knows that the general public can ''easily'' find out that ''their'' product is no more or less calorie-free than any other tea, and decides to find another way to advertise.
* '''Discussed''': "Since when do tea leaves have carbs, fat, and calories?"
* '''Conversed''': "They don't. Well, not unless ''you'' add milk and sugar. Hatter's Choice just wants to jump on the Health Kick Bandwagon to make more money."

* '''Played For Laughs''': "We swear by CrystalDragonJesus that our cereal boxes are [[OhNoNotAgain FINALLY]] free of rabid mongooses with poison-dripping skin and [[EyeBeams laser-beam shooting eyes]]! [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial Seriously!]]"

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* '''Basic Trope''': A claim is made about a product that ''is'' true, but has no significance or bearing on the product's quality.
* '''Played Straight''': [[Literature/AliceInWonderland Hatter's Choice]] Teas are advertised as being fat-free, calorie-free, and sugar-free. While this is true, ''all'' tea leaves are fat-free, calorie-free, and sugar-free.

* '''Subverted''': HereComesTheScience: the antioxidant benefits of Hatter's Choice Teas are trumped up

* '''Double Subverted''': A simple [[PigLatin Ooglegay]] search would show that a) Hatter's Choice Teas have the same antioxidants as any other tea and b) one would have to drink ''gallons'' of tea every single day just to get the alleged health and beauty benefits of said antioxidants.

** It's small and inconspicuous, and few tea-buyers would bother to ReadTheFinePrint anyways.
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* '''Reconstructed''':

* '''Lampshaded''': "Hatter's Choice Teas: Calorie-free, Naturally"

* '''Played For Laughs''':
* '''Played For Drama''':

* '''Exaggerated''': Hatter's Choice Teas are advertised as an effective dietary aid ''simply'' because they are fat-free, calorie-free, and sugar-free.

* '''Played Straight''': [[AliceInWonderland Hatter's Choice]] Teas are advertised as being fat-free, calorie-free, and sugar-free. While this is true, ''all'' tea leaves are fat-free, calorie-free, and sugar-free.

* '''Played Straight''': Hatter's Choice Teas are advertised as being fat-free, calorie-free, and sugar-free. While this is true, ''all'' tea leaves are fat-free, calorie-free, and sugar-free.

* '''Played Straight''': Teatime Teas are advertised as being fat-free, calorie-free, and sugar-free. While this is true, ''all'' tea leaves are fat-free, calorie-free, and sugar-free.
* '''Exaggerated''': Teatime Teas are advertised as an effective dietary aid ''simply'' because they are fat-free, calorie-free, and sugar-free.
* '''Justified''': Teatime Teas needs to market its products and set its products apart from the rest, and still follow truth-in-advertising laws.

* '''Subverted''': HereComesTheScience: the antioxidant benefits of Teatime Teas are trumped up
** Teatime Teas are advertised as fair-trade, organic, etc.

* '''Double Subverted''': A simple [[PigLatin Ooglegay]] search would show that a) Teatime Teas have the same antioxidants as any other tea and b) one would have to drink ''gallons'' of tea every single day just to get the alleged health and beauty benefits of said antioxidants.

* '''Parodied''': Teatime Teas are advertised as ''matter-free''.
* '''Lampshaded''': "Teatime Teas: Calorie-free, Naturally"
* '''Averted''':