Beware of Nutrition Information Labels!
Ty Medina, a co-worker of mine, told me an absolutely hysterical story today while on a conference call with him. He was telling me that he, his wife, and his son went to some healthy, organic grocery store. While there, his son spied a pumpkin pie and asked if they could have it. Ty looked at the nutritional information at the bottom of the pie and, to his surprise, it contained a mere 160 calories per serving. The best news of all? The entire pie was ONE SERVING! Traditional pumpkin pie is definitely high fat, high calorie, so Ty decided to give this low-cal pie a try (I couldn't resist the Dr. Seuss rhyming there).
After having dinner that evening, he served his son a piece of the pie and decided to try a piece himself. As it turns out, the pie was gloriously delicious! He decided then and there to eat the entire pie in one sitting. His wife, the voice of reason, informed him that they must have made a mistake on the label, and that there is no way an entire pie is only 160 calories. He then proceeded to tell her, "No way; those labels are never wrong!"
Ty was so excited about this delicious low calorie pie that he decided he could easily eat it everyday for breakfast! Fast forward ahead in time when his family is in the same grocery store. Ty looks at the bottom of another pie, only to discover an altered label reading not 1 serving per pie, but 8. The nutrition information, in fact, had been incorrect. So, let that be a lesson to you boys and girls; Wives know best, and had Ty listened to his, he wouldn't have consumed 1,120 calories, on top of his dinner, in one sitting.