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A Lawyer's Jam Problem
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Maria was a health nut. She was also a Canadian lawyer. She was in the supermarket one day looking for some jam, but of course it had to be sugar-free, as she was crazy about health. As soon as she found some, she looked closely at the label. It clearly read "Sugar Free Jam". After reading this, she made a notation of the brand name of the jam and prepared to file a case against the company. The jam was actually sugar-free, so what other problem could she have with it?
Hint
It wasn't a problem with false advertising or something similar.Answer
In Canada, anything called "Jam" has to have at least 10% sugar, so it is legally impossible to have "Sugar free jam". However, it can be called "Sugar-free fruit spread", as an example.Hide Hint Show Hint Hide Answer Show Answer
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This was hard!! I'm very impressed.
I did not think it was a very hard teaser because I knew the difference. But it is a fun one and it can trick people so congratulations for the idea !
Well, that's one more bit of usless information i have learned.
Tough for me because I'm not sure in the Canadian ways! But creative and good!
If anything called "jam" has to be at least 10% sugar, and it said sugar free, then it had to be false advertising. Your hint threw me off but the answer went against the hint. Good teaser anyway.
If Maria was a health nut, why did she want sugarless jam? If she had sugarless jam, it would have aspartame or sucralose, which are less healthy than sugar, if she was a health nut, she would have been looking for organic jam. If she wanted sugarless jam, it would be because she's watching her weight, or has diabetes or something.
sarcastic_brat53:jam doesn't have to be sweetened with aspartame or sucralose. It can also be sweetened with fruit juice. But you're right, she might have also wanted organic jam, but the teaser didn't really work that way because it took away from the point of it: the "sugar-free jam" part. Good point though.
Have to be a Canadian to solve this
Not familiar with Canadian food additive laws.
Im not familiar with Canadian laws either, it had me all "Jamed" up. Good one!
For crying out loud it's just a fun little riddle don't try to correct little stuff that no one cares about.
I thought it was a pretty interesting riddle I'm Canadian and I didn't even no that.Good One!
I thought it was a pretty interesting riddle I'm Canadian and I didn't even no that.Good One!
I'll have to remember this next time I go food shopping in Canada.
well that was a good teaser, i enjoyed that. it got my brain working for once, thanks for that!
Funny. I'm Canadian but I don't know about jam laws.
Those Canadians...always trying to do things so different. Why can't they just use jelly?
Just because she's a Canadian lawyer doesn't mean she is shopping in Canada. She could have been on vacation in some other country.
maybe it was actually "sugar free jam substitute", but she just didn't read very carefully
I dop't think you should have included the part about her being a health nut, that way it sounds like she was looking for sugar-free jam to eat and not just to sue. Other than that, it was good. I liked the whole Canadian twist and it makes it all the better!
I got it right, but for the wrong reason...I just figured Jam, when made has sugar. I wouldn't have got it except the bit about false advertising. You have to assume that Jams in general MUST have sugar.
how is saying that the jam she bought isn't really jam *not* false advertising?
i don't know about canadian legislation but that's what you'd sue for in australia...
since your hint said that it *wasn't* false advertising, i went with she found a dead cockroach in it...
i don't know about canadian legislation but that's what you'd sue for in australia...
since your hint said that it *wasn't* false advertising, i went with she found a dead cockroach in it...
Sorry im american
You got me stumped on this one, i had no idea. Interesting though...
i dont know about Canadas jam laws .
*didn't* now i know
Learnt something, from The Great White North land...Thanks.
Reeeeaaallllllyyyyy... I'm Canadian and I didn't know that... Keep up the good work!
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