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[-] ringwraithfish@startrek.website 144 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Did a quick search to see if nutrition and ingredients were listed - they weren't. Saw a lot of "our products are super nutritious trust me bro" in their ads.

Actually makes me thankful of all the regulations our food suppliers have to follow in the US.

[-] DarkThoughts@fedia.io 101 points 9 months ago

Actually makes me thankful of all the regulations our food suppliers have to follow in the US.

As a European: lol

[-] hannes3120@feddit.de 35 points 9 months ago

Yeah - was about to do that

I think EU regulations for food and border-free movement between countries are the two most valuable EU advantages by far

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[-] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 52 points 9 months ago

Actually makes me thankful of all the regulations our food suppliers have to follow in the US.

For now

[-] intensely_human@lemm.ee 51 points 9 months ago

That’s the 40 year reputation he’s worked so hard to build: oversweet tomato purée with no nutrition facts published.

This is such horseshit.

Don’t know if others reas the article but they made her stand in a cell with water on the floor, for at least twelve hours.

That’s like Abu Ghraib level indignity and prisoner abuse. Over some lost tomato purée contracts.

This should be a civil matter, but it’s being treated as a criminal matter.

Fuck this guy, and fuck the corrupt government he’s using to torment this lady.

[-] MrJameGumb@lemmy.world 38 points 9 months ago

I think they're really going to lose a lot of business over this lawsuit. If they had just left that lady alone hardly anyone would have seen her review lol

[-] ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 37 points 9 months ago

Streisand effect hits hard

[-] andyburke@fedia.io 7 points 9 months ago

Amazing that we, as a species, are incapable of learning from history.

[-] ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago

I mean there's a reason there's warning labels on everything about not doing the most obvious thing you should never do.

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[-] HaywardT@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 9 months ago

Makes me thankful that in the US the truth is a defense against libel.

[-] EchoCranium@lemmy.zip 17 points 9 months ago

Only if you can get through the years of litigation, harassment, stress, and have the money to weather it out. Truth and justice are more easily attainable for those who can afford it.

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[-] ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world 141 points 9 months ago

And in today's episode of Totally Un-self-aware,

The company’s founder, Eric Umeofia, refused to budge, however, saying in a recent documentary on the local Arise Television channel that he won’t drop the lawsuit against Okoli and that he would “rather die than allow someone to tarnish my image I worked 40 years to grow.”

So this asshole is the person churning up that poor woman's isolated bad review into ALL the Streisand effect he can possibly get, as hard as he can, to the point that it is now international news how abysmally shitty his product really is, AND he's also the person announcing dramatically that he'd rather die than allow anyone to do that.

Hmmm. Will he ever connect the dots?

Nah. He'll just keep blaming and harassing that poor woman for the rest of his days while people stop buying his product in droves because both it and he leave such a bad taste in the mouth.

[-] Doxanarchy@lemmy.world 40 points 9 months ago

He's only 39 with a 40 year old image 🤔

[-] JustAnotherRando@lemmy.world 26 points 9 months ago

The woman being harassed by this company and the police is the only that's 39. The article doesn't mention the founder's age, and he definitely looks older than 39 from a quick search.

[-] Timecircleline@sh.itjust.works 14 points 9 months ago

He worked hard in utero. /#neverstophustling

[-] ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

He’s only 39 with a 40 year old image

Lol, great catch! I totally missed that.

EDITED TO ADD: It was the lady who was 39, not the guy suing her. My bad. I should probably just go ahead and revisit Hooked on Phonics now because I can't fucking read, lol.

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[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 12 points 8 months ago

he would “rather die

This dude takes tomato sauce seriously.

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[-] AtHeartEngineer@lemmy.world 86 points 9 months ago

Sounds like corruption is playing a part in this

[-] intensely_human@lemm.ee 60 points 9 months ago

No kidding. So far:

  • What is at the most drastic possible interpretation only a case of exaggerated language. She said “killing people with this” when maybe she should have said “making people unhealthy with this” or “loading people up with too much sugar with this”. This civil case is being prosecuted under some kind of cyber terrorism / fomenting charge
  • They put her in a water-filled holding cell where she could only stand or squat, not sit or lie down, for twelve hours
  • After that, the police showed up at her home, invited themselves in, wouldn’t let her or her daughters leave, stayed there for twelve hours (doing what??)

This is evil, horrific, monstrous behavior. Corruption I think of as selling road building contracts over golf. This is evil corruption.

[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 52 points 9 months ago

What are the odds the food owner has a good friend at the ol’ Nigerian Justice Department.

This whole thing is bullshit on top of bullshit.

[-] intensely_human@lemm.ee 26 points 9 months ago

Almost 100%, The justice dept is behaving in such an over the top way here, it’s either that or they just want to demonstrate how they themselves can get away with mistreating a citizen.

[-] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 46 points 9 months ago
[-] Mango@lemmy.world 64 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

You know what to do boys!

[-] MissJinx@lemmy.world 11 points 9 months ago

This one deserved a internet "hug". I swear to god corrupt people like this should have their lifes destroyed

[-] PriorityMotif@lemmy.world 37 points 8 months ago

I'm my experience, people like this are shady AF. I had an eBay seller that sent me a car part that didn't match the photo. He kept insisting that he sent the correct part and trying to trick me into sending it back at my cost. It turns out that he was using a drop shipping service that you can use if you own a shop. He had gone out of business and was using an address of a different building that he had sold.

It also turns out that the manufacturer had used the incorrect stock photo for the part. It was neither of our faults, but he wouldn't take ownership as a seller and tried to deny my return and accused me of fraud. eBay gave me a refund on the end because he kept trying to upload something with just the return warehouse address instead of a shipping label like he was supposed to. He lived in a huge house in a major city and wanted to fight me over less than $10 in shipping.

[-] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

manufacturer had used the incorrect stock photo for the part

That's apparently really common. It's a lot of trouble to bring every transmission, door handle, gas tank, hood hinge, etc... into the studio for a reference image. They use a "basic" image a lot of the times.

[-] Default_Defect@midwest.social 7 points 8 months ago

I had the good fortune to be able to buy ebay car parts that are exclusively photographed on a dirty workbench, and they've always worked like a charm.

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[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 29 points 9 months ago

"This tomato sauce is a bit sweet for my taste."

"FUCK YOU! I WILL KILL YOU, YOUR FAMILY, AND YOUR DOG, BURN EVERYTHING TO THE GROUND AND PISS ON THE ASHES!"

"Jesus Christ, man! I just said it was a bit too sweet."

[-] markpaskal@lemmy.ca 6 points 8 months ago

She actually said something along the lines of "your brother's company is killing people the sauce is so sweet" in response to a comment or so I read in another article this morning.

[-] BluesF@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago

It's in this article:

Help me advise your brother to stop ki***ing people with his product, yesterday was my first time of using and it’s pure sugar.

[-] HuntressHimbo@lemm.ee 27 points 9 months ago

I hope that her defense also makes the argument that there is no damages because online reviews have zero value when the majority of them are fake paid reviews.

[-] popemichael@lemmy.sdf.org 15 points 8 months ago

I can just about hear someone saying, "Do you know who I am?" or "Do you know who my father is?"

This situation just screams of the diabeetus-loving tomato sauce company bribing the local police.

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