It’s seems a little redundant to have to explain that my PLAIN Eggo waffles don’t come with blueberries and raspberries on them.
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I think it could be thanks to the court. Someone sometime bought a food, expecting there to be an exact thing that is on the package.
Ofc it wasn’t, but having a tasty looking picture helps to sell the item.
With suggestion seller can put anything inside, and refuse any future courts for not being same as on the packaging.
Otherwise people would sue the company over not included berries. That’s pretty much the reason for nearly all obvious notes on products.
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1) Plain Eggo waffles look pretty boring, so they’re at least going to show them with syrup drizzled over them, and clearly some go the extra mile to include fruit, berries, and drinks.
2) When they show all the tasty extras that make the Eggos look great, they need to make it clear that you’re not actually getting those in the box.
It’s the legal play of “covering your own arse”. Companies have to make it clear that what is being shown on the package is *not* what is *in* the package. You don’t get to use the “obviously the waffles don’t come *with* fruit”. Someone’s going to pull up a case of false advertising and sue you. You have to take steps to ensure that *no reasonable person* will expect that outcome, hence the “serving suggestion” covers that base.
Something like cereal is generally eaten with milk, hence the box will show a bowl of cereal with milk, but since the box does not contain milk, it must display the “serving suggestion” in fine print.
A similar thing happens with advertisements for video games that use pre-rendered cutscenes. It’s obvious to gamers that it’s a cutscene and not the gameplay engine, but it’s an easy case of false advertising if you show something that is not actually the game, hence the obligatory “not actual gameplay footage”.
> It’s seems a little redundant to have to explain that my PLAIN Eggo waffles don’t come with blueberries and raspberries on them.
Well, you say this, but in reality people are often that dumb. So for legal reasons the packaging usually says “suggestion” when it depicts things that don’t come in the package.
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