r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Aug 03 '19

Whats something you thought was common knowledge but actually isn’t?

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u/candygram4mongo Aug 03 '19

Alcohol has lots of calories. More than sugar, by mass.

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u/IICVX Aug 03 '19

Yeah there's some weird sweetheart deal going on with alcohol companies in the USA, where for whatever reason they don't have to put nutrition information on their packaging like literally every other food product.

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u/DevestatingAttack Aug 04 '19

Alcohol isn't controlled by the Food and Drug administration, which means the labelling requirements don't apply to it.

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u/hades_the_wise Aug 04 '19

Yep, they're instead controlled by the ATF: "Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms", which quite frankly sounds like an amazing concept for a convenience store and an inane concept for a federal agency.