There are truth in advertising laws that tell us you can't label a food product as "butter" if it has no butter in it. But you can label a butter substitute as "I can't believe it's not butter." Some say you only need the second half of that phrase, while the company hopes you only focus on the last word. But I digress. Truth in advertising laws won't help you when a product has used the same name for a hundred years or more. A young American might hear of black pudding and assume it's a creamy chocolaty sweet dessert. It is not. There is no seafood in Rocky Mountain oysters. An egg cream contains no egg nor any cream. And refried beans have only been fried once. That particular misleading name has a logical explanation having to do with the differences between Spanish and English. The Takeout gives us the real ingredients in 14 foods with misleading names, and explains how they were named. -via Fark
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Literally.