Comment on Saw this at the store this morning, took a double take

BigBenis@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I always thought it was because there is alcohol in it still. NA beer I thought was classified as .5% or less. So legally they are still regulated.

  Alcohol free is 0%.

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  • ricecake@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Fruit juice naturally has around 0.5% alcohol. It’s just a side effect of wet sugar.

    There’s no legal federal limit, it’s all state law. Some states go by that 0.5%. others go by a definition that includes “things sold as beer” essentially.
    "You are holding a container. It is labeled beer. Do not give it to anyone under 21.”

    Other times stores just assume and card everyone because it’s waaay easier than nuance and you’re not legally required to sell non-alcoholic beverages to minors.

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  • robin@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    They say “contains less than 0.5%” because that’s the cutoff that makes something legally beer. It more than likely has none, much of the time. That’s just the law (US):

    0.5% it’s beer and subject to laws < 0.5% it’s not beer, technically a soda or something

    So they label it as <0.5% simply to show that it’s in the latter category

    But the grocers just do whatever. Hell, half the brands don’t have required nutritional info (beer doesn’t need it, soda does) but the real problem is that:

    The regulatory agencies are captured and don’t do shit anymore. TECHNICALLY the FDA should be stepping in and making them put full nutritional information on all the brands of NA “beer” and making sure it is labeled and sold like a soda.

    But the larger companies that sell it are just misclassifying it and creating problems to be as lazy and risk avoidant as possible.

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  • HerbGrower@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Apple juice can contain around 0.5% alcohol though?

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    • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Because people aren’t making irrational claims yelling at companies who make juice. Eating banana or drinking juices that are higher in glucose aren’t going to hurt you in any measurable way that the sugar won’t hurt you so drastically more.

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    • Leviathan@fedinsfw.app ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Bread also.

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  • robin@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    They say “contains less than 0.5%” because that’s the cutoff that makes something legally beer. It more than likely has none, much of the time. That’s just the law (US):

    0.5% it’s beer and subject to laws < 0.5% it’s not beer, technically a soda or something

    So they label it as <0.5% simply to show that it’s in the latter category

    But the grocers just do whatever. Hell, half the brands don’t have required nutritional info (beer doesn’t need it, soda does) but the real problem is that:

    The regulatory agencies are captured and don’t do shit anymore. TECHNICALLY the FDA should be stepping in and making them put full nutritional information on all the brands of NA “beer” and making sure it is labeled and sold like a soda.

    But the larger companies that sell it are just misclassifying it and creating problems to be as lazy and risk avoidant as possible.

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  • robin@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    They say “contains less than 0.5%” because that’s the cutoff that makes something legally beer. It more than likely has none, much of the time. That’s just the law (US):

    0.5% it’s beer and subject to laws < 0.5% it’s not beer, technically a soda or something

    So they label it as <0.5% simply to show that it’s in the latter category

    But the grocers just do whatever. Hell, half the brands don’t have required nutritional info (beer doesn’t need it, soda does) but the real problem is that:

    The regulatory agencies are captured and don’t do shit anymore. TECHNICALLY the FDA should be stepping in and making them put full nutritional information on all the brands of NA “beer” and making sure it is labeled and sold like a soda.

    But the larger companies that sell it are just misclassifying it and creating problems to be as lazy and risk avoidant as possible.

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  • cosmos8188@leminal.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    The 0.0% on the poster must legally be without alcohol whatsoever. What you have in mind is a confusingly named non-alcoholic beer which goes under the official alcoholic beer radar.

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    • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      yeah that’s what I was saying

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• filcuk@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I quite enjoy ‘Supermalt’, a malt drink with NO alcohol. It has a large warning for 18+ on the shelves at Tesco, yet I’m not carded on checkout.

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  • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    That will have been because whoever shelved it didn’t know what it was.

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  • Simon_Shitewood@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    We can also buy 0.5% shandy at any age.

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• HerbGrower@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I think a lot of it is due to stupid shop policies. I have been refused sale of a teaspoon for not having ID.

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  • BradleyUffner@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Yup. I got carded at Home Depot when buying a saw blade because “it could be used as a weapon”.

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    • ricecake@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      … That’s everything at home depot. I don’t know that they have a product that isn’t able to be weaponized, and not just in the most literal sense.

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    • HerbGrower@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Please hold still while I saw you

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