A Boring Dystopia

But what will I have for lunch :/

Anytime I read some in-depth report about food regulations in the USA my jaw drops. Favourite permanent head-shaker: the FDA relies on manufacturers self-reporting if their food is "safe" - and has been for decades.

I recall a small cookie or dessert company that listed "love" as an ingredient. FDA made them take it out of the list.

I think this is just a supermarket thing. It's a generic label for the purpose of their inventory system for things they make themselves as opposed to something they sell that was purchased from a primary vendor.

My supermarket has a deli I can order sandwiches from and they'll have "lunch" or something to that effect on the label that has the barcode on it.

We do have very "strict" food labeling laws as far as what you can call a thing based on what's in it, so much so that I basically call it "food language." For example a product that is made with synthetic chocolate is not allowed to be called simply "chocolate," it can be called chocolaty or I think chocolate flavored, but not "chocolate."

Not just the main ingredient; every ingredient must be on the label where in from. What would people with allergies do otherwise?

Yes. Everything is “natural and artificial flavoring”. Also Tic-Tacs (which are literally just compressed balls of sugar) say in the nutrition facts that they have 0g of sugar because they keep the “serving size” just below the amount where they are allowed to round down to zero.

Europe does the exact same thing with food like this - this is like going to the lunch/dinner buffet station thing at your grocery store that has a price per kg or whatever. You won't find exact ingredients on the price tag you slap on you weighed food.

What flavour?

Dinner flavour.

i'm a bit concerned about that label. if you look closelier, you'll see it's actually a date range: 1/9/25-18/8. this food doesn't even exist yet, and when it does it'll be good til august. but only if you're in europe.

Looks like chicken strips to me

Edit: after a quick search it appears to me that Lewis market offers hot meals, and in many grocery stores you can find chicken strips in their hot meal section. My assumption is that the barcode 'dinner' is just a generic code for any of their hot food items.

You don't want to know.

Soylent?

So like my dog's food?