Time to Fake the Donuts

A sweet little scam: Robert Ligon sells repackaged normal chocolate donuts as low-fat carob donuts. He's going to jail for it now. This is making me rethink my retirement plan for artificially colored blue corn chips.

[Link via Rational Review]

Comments

[Argyles]

But what about the frozen yogurt?

[JD]

Even better is this one: Marks & Spencer forced to pull poppy-seed crackers in Singapore. Poppy seeds contain traces of opiates, and that's Bad in Singapore, so out they go. I would not care to speculate on how many tons of poppy-seed crackers you would have to eat to get a noticeable buzz, but at least it's nice to see that the US is in good company with this zero-tolerance idiocy.

[Shultz]

Here in LA, for a while now, there is this chain of oxygen bars. That's right; for a fee, they will let you breathe their oxygen.

Now, sure caveat emptor is always the rule. And I know they weren't defrauding their customers in the same way as the Doughnut guy. And I don't like government regulation.

But shouldn't the oxygen bar people be forced to have their customers sign a document attesting that they're not retarded?

[weldor]

Shultz,

There's something reasonable about selling pure oxygen to consumers. If you want to find out for yourself, see if your local weldor will let you huff some from the tank.

[Jason Ligon]

I wonder if he is a relative. He doesn't show up to Christmas or anything ...

[dhex]

yeah, i thought it was crazy too until i hit up a free booth in vegas. bad side is it considerably lessens the effects of alcohol intoxication.

fat free donuts though? that boggles my mind.

[StMack]

The only thing stupider than getting busted for selling fake fat-free donuts is buying anything labeled as a fat free donuts. Some things - like batter fried in hot oil and and coated with a sugary glaze - are not meant to be healthy. They are meant to be good.

[B.P.]

Then again, there's fat free bleu cheese dressing on supermarket shelves. It tastes like cake frosting, but still...

[Jean Bart]

Jason Ligon's brother?

[Jason Ligon]

I think it could be a great uncle, JB. If you go to the source article in the WSJ online (linked in the article), you will see that our dastardly donut deceiver had operations in Kentucky and Illinois. That is a bit close to home to be coincidence.

I don't know the guy directly, though. Time to pester the grandparents ...

[Rebecca]

StMack, I agree with you 110%. You get a donut. 😉

The thing I noticed here is he sold chocolate donuts as carob donuts. This doesn't affect most people, but one of my best friends cannot eat chocolate at all - it gives her migraines. But, she can eat carob and get some of the flavor of chocolate. So if she ate these false carob donuts, she would get a three-day migraine. And she would definitely know that it wasn't no carob in those donuts!

[AJMB]

I occasionally whore myself as a tester for a food research company. Almost two years ago I was part of a focus group relating to fat-free doughnuts. They tasted like s---. You may thank me for doing my small bit for mankind.