What is it with love and bakeries right now?
According to the Washington Post, earlier this month the Food and Drug Administration sent a formal letter of warning to a Massachusetts bakery about a series of violations, one of which was with regard to the labeling of the bakery’s famous granola.
Apparently, if you look at the side label of the ingredients, in addition to oats and almonds and brown sugar and stuff, the folks at the bakery have also listed “love.”
According to the Post, “the ‘ingredient’ was a nod to the passion bakers put into their product and a wink to the fans of the snack.”
Well, that was all a little too cute to the FDA, which apparently has regulations about such things, and so they warned the bakery that “love” was considered “intervening material” on a list of ingredients, and needs to go.
From now on, if “love” is going to be an ingredient, it’s going to have to be a secret one.
So that has to qualify as the other big story about love and bakeries this season.
You’ve probably already heard of the biggest one.
This term, the US Supreme Court has agreed to hear Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, a case that is also, in its own way, about love—specifically, the right of a bakery to deny a customer service for religious reasons, namely, the baker’s faith-based objections to same-sex marriage.
The baker argues that his cakes are a form of expression, and that… [Read more…] about On Love and Bakeries