{"id":14253,"date":"2010-04-23T07:00:01","date_gmt":"2010-04-23T07:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2010\/04\/23\/our-legal-department-suggests-you-skip-our-salad-dressing-and-just-eat-an-avocado\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T18:10:40","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T02:10:40","slug":"20100423-01","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20100423-01\/?p=14253","title":{"rendered":"Our legal department suggests you skip our salad dressing and just eat an avocado"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saw a bottle of salad dressing with very strange fine print. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.briannassaladdressing.com\/flavors\/honey-mustard.html\"> The picture on the bottle is of half an avocado<\/a>. But the fine print on the bottle reads &#8220;Does not contain avocados.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Okay, so the picture on the bottle isn&#8217;t a picture of the product. This is strange but not entirely unheard of. After all, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.girlscouts.org\/program\/gs_cookies\/\"> a box of Girl Scout cookies has pictures of Girl Scouts<\/a>, not cookies.<\/p>\n<p>The thing that struck me was the second half of the fine print. It reads &#8220;Serving suggestion.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Huh?<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, the suggested way of enjoying their salad dressing is to eat half an avocado <i>with no salad dressing on it<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Pre-emptive snarky comment<\/b>: &#8220;PCs should have come with a suggestion to use the computer without Windows Vista on it.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Strange fine print.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103,137],"class_list":["post-14253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer","tag-reading-the-fine-print"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Strange fine print.<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}