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General BuyEuropean product database: https://buy-european.net/ (relevant post with background info)
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Switching your tech to European TLDR: https://better-tech.eu/tldr/ (relevant post)
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Buy European meta website with useful links: https://gohug.eu/ (relevant post)
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Okay, here I go: Heavily misleading marketing.
How the fuck do you look at a meat substitute product, which all scream "I AM NOT MEAT, I AM SUBSTITUTE" from the packaging to the naming conventions like "Like-Chicken", and think this is meat. Please, if you do this, don't do the shopping for your household. Depending on the language, you might end up with cleaning products in your breakfast cereal.
The tone of your message would normally be enough for me to realize the best answer should be to ignore it for what it is: (here, add some not polite word of your choice). But at the same time you're the only one of those angry people who have made the effort to try to express something vaguely resembling an opinion over my poor comment. So, even though your effort mostly boils down to a few dismissive remarks toward my little person, I want to encourage such an impressive attempt at communicating. Allow me to answer your remarks while doing my best to ignore your tone and sarcasm.
I did a quick image search (using Qwant search engine) for vegan packaging and, without much surprise, I could not find much ‘screaming’ “I AM NOT MEAT; I AM SUBSTITUTE”.
On the other hand, while searching for one such package I could find a lot of packages (I dare not say all of them, as I only checked a few) using very similar ALLCAPS to yours, stating ‘STEAK’ in big bold face while, albeit in much smaller font and nowhere near that ‘STEAK’ part, stating ‘plant-based' or ‘substitute’ which, no matter how dumb you seem to have realized I am, is not the same as 'NOT FUCKING MEAT BASED, YOU ABSOLUTE MORON OF A CUSTOMER' (did I get your amused tone right?)
For the rest of your message it’s hard to answer anything while ignoring the part that is desperately trying to be insulting since there is not much beside that failed attempt. But since I promised to do my best, here I go:
Since it’s 10.30 PM in my corner of the world, allow me to thank you one last time for your kind comment and to wish you the absolute best evening such an amiable answer as yours deserves. It was a pleasure.
edit: typos
Here's an example of packaging being confusing.
It is not clear without reading the ingredient label if the it's plant-based-chicken or plant-based-breading on the chicken-meat patty.
2 important things:
This isn't confusing unless you want it to be.
To cash in on the plant-based trend and make $$$ for the same product you used to sell for $$. Beyond isn't, because veggie is their brand, but I have to read ingredient labels because I can't do legumes, so I've seen the weirdest shit before with off-brand stuff.
Agreed. Also note that they're calling it "patties", so the quibble about whether or not they're "burgers" is irrelevant. It's just an example of how things can currently be confusing if you don't know your brands.