Here’s Another One of Those Silly Labels
By Four Walls
@FourWalls (86755)
United States
May 9, 2018 9:03pm CST
For the past month or two @LoriAMoore has been treating myLot to funny signs. The other day I found significant humor in a label on a bottle of salt water, informing me that the salt and the water were both gluten free.
Tonight at the grocery I saw something else that made me chuckle.
Good ol’ Coffee Mate, the legendary non-dairy coffee creamer.....
Is labeled as “dairy.”
Something’s messed up here somewhere.
You see it labeled as “non-dairy” on the front. On the back, you see the Orthodox Union certification for it being kosher. Next to that (the U with a circle around it, if you didn’t know), you see the letter D. That means it’s certified as a DAIRY product.
Okay, so it’s kinda dairy non-dairy.... 
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@FourWalls (86755)
• United States
10 May 18
The circled “OU” has a small D next to it.
And you’re correct about the ingredients. That stuff is better preserved than Keith Richards! 
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@FourWalls (86755)
• United States
10 May 18
LOL, it even says "contains a milk derivative" on the back. Maybe it's from powdered cows.
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@Marilynda1225 (91130)
• United States
11 May 18
It's amazing what you can find when you read labels 
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@Namelesss (3364)
• United States
29 Aug 18
Haha, just had this discussion yesterday with someone. Crazy aint it?
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@JohnRoberts (109841)
• Los Angeles, California
10 May 18
You could not come up with a Steely Dan song for this one?
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@FourWalls (86755)
• United States
10 May 18
No. Now drink your big non-dairy black cow and get outta here. 
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@dgobucks226 (37621)
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12 May 18
You aroused my curiosity. 
Which lead me to a bit of research which further explains your keen observatory powers, lol.
Coffee-mate brand nondairy creamers contain sodium caseinate which is a form of protein from milk. Caseinate is a common ingredient in nondairy milk substitutes. FDA regulations require that when foods characterized on the label as "nondairy" contain a caseinate ingredient, that ingredient must be followed by a parenthetical term such as "a milk derivative."
Which lead me to a bit of research which further explains your keen observatory powers, lol.
Coffee-mate brand nondairy creamers contain sodium caseinate which is a form of protein from milk. Caseinate is a common ingredient in nondairy milk substitutes. FDA regulations require that when foods characterized on the label as "nondairy" contain a caseinate ingredient, that ingredient must be followed by a parenthetical term such as "a milk derivative."1 person likes this
@andriaperry (118793)
• Anniston, Alabama
10 May 18
I did not know that is what that D was for!
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