Do You Have Enough Cherries In That Pie?
The United States FDA has some strict rules for frozen cherry pies, and colorful requirements that must be met before those pies can be sold on the market. The FDA specifically demands that all frozen cherry pies be made up of at least 25 percent cherries by weight and no more than 15 percent of those cherries can be blemished cherries.
Without government, who would tell us how many cherries to put into our pies?
There is currently a small deregulation effort taking place that's seeking to change the rules on cherry pies, among other restrictions surrounding food items.
It's alleged that the FDA already has plans to revoke some old food standards, reversing restrictions surrounding items like cherry pies, canned peas, French dressing, and more.
The rules surrounding cherries in pies aren't about quality or consumer safety. Why can't a person decide for themselves after eating a slice of pie whether it's a good slice of pie or not? If it doesn't have enough cherries or if it does, surely that's a question we can answer for ourselves without having some central authority answer it for us.
Don't stop with just pies, but feel free to unravel the many thousands of ridiculous restrictions on individual liberty and human exchange that have been put into place that arguably haven't accomplished much in the way of quality or safety.
Damn it, my plans of selling 24% cherries pies are ruined.
I guess the thought behind this was to make companies who sold "cherry" pies with barely any cherry pay for it, but wouldn't people just make their own or go to other companies? Freedom of choice. Unless it's a monopoly, competition takes over. It should be pretty easy for someone else to enter the cherry market with a more cherry filled pies.
The FDA is a disaster of course and doesn't give a damn about people's health or a proper diet. They regulate the cherries in the pie, but I bet they don't care how much table sugar it contains.
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My granny was making a cherry pie. Or should I say THE cherry pie? I'm pretty sure she never ever heard about USA's FDA. However, it's the best cherry pie I've ever tried. I have no idea what was the number of cherries and so on. It was delicious and I'm still around. Regulations are sometimes good but sometimes they are going too far.
there are far too many victimless "crimes"
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Yep, but the FDA allows people to sell ice cream that has no cream in it.
Usually these concoctions have whey in them, because the FDA mandates that in order for it to be called ice cream, it must have some milk product in it.
(Whey is the stuff left over from making cheese. Like buttermilk is the stuff left over from making butter. Both taste similar, sour/tangy. The manufacturers just add lots of sugar to cover up the taste.)
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Exactly! Next they wont let people that are overweight buy cherry pies!!!
Back in the '80s I predicted that government would use medicare as a vector for seizing power over our persons, as in our personal bodies, and that eventually through vectors like criminalization of tobacco and allegedly unhealthy foods like bacon, they'd effect ever greater control of our persons.
Today tobacco is approaching complete prohibition, and I still suspect that prediction is coming true. I envisioned 'sniffer' equipped vans roaming the streets seeking for the chemical signatures of frying bacon and summoning swat teams to burst in on people enjoying healthy breakfasts and carting them off for a term of indentured servitude, for their safety, of course. While that hasn't happened yet, there is seemingly a war on meat ongoing, and mandatory vaccination sure does seem to be ontrack to bring that future in which our bodies are their possessions, to manage at their sole option.
Thankfully, the bacon sniffing swat teams haven't eventuated - yet.
It's a trait of control freaks to micromanage.
Edit: also, isn't that a cobbler, and not a pie?