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northland10 wrote: ↑Tue Oct 11, 2022 9:02 am My India Pale Ale (IPA) was brewed in Kalamazoo.

However, fries made out of those inferior Idaho potatoes are called Liberty Fries. Get it right.

Sam the Centipede wrote: ↑Tue Oct 11, 2022 11:26 am

northland10 wrote: ↑Tue Oct 11, 2022 9:02 am My India Pale Ale (IPA) was brewed in Kalamazoo.

However, fries made out of those inferior Idaho potatoes are called Liberty Fries. Get it right.

IIRC India Pale Ale was brewed in England for export to India; it's not an Indian beer.

Volkonski wrote: ↑Tue Oct 11, 2022 4:22 am Sad to learn that the curse of the Idaho Potato has spread beyond the USA. Sure, they are large and cheap but they are really only fit for fast food French fries. They are not what fine potato recipes are made from.

Hope that one day you will be able to experience a Long Island Potato from the North Fork, the only proper potato.

Pa. House Votes Philly DA in Contempt for Failing to Respond to Subpoena
Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner could potentially be jailed for the contempt vote. A lawyer for the DA called the House vote undemocratic and vowed to fight its legitimacy.

The Pennsylvania House of Representatives voted on Tuesday to hold Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner in contempt of the state legislative body for failing to respond to a subpoena requesting documents from Krasner's office.

The House voted 162-38 to hold him in contempt, including numerous Democrats.

The subpoena stems from an ongoing investigation by a House committee into Krasner and Philadelphia's gun violence epidemic. It is called the House Committee on Restoring Law and Order, which is running in tandem with a Republican-led effort to impeach Krasner.

A lawyer for Krasner called the contempt vote "undemocratic" because he has already submitted a response to the subpoena in a court filing asking a judge to squash it.

"The Subpoena issued to the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office seeks secret grand jury documents and other privileged documents related to a pending murder case involving a former police officer charged with killing a Black man," attorney Michael Satin said. "It interferes with local, democratic rule; and it violates the separation of powers by interfering with the district attorney’s prosecutorial discretion, among other things."

Tiredretiredlawyer wrote: ↑Wed Oct 12, 2022 10:33 am A lawyer for Krasner called the contempt vote "undemocratic" because he has already submitted a response to the subpoena in a court filing asking a judge to squash it.

Suranis wrote: ↑Wed Oct 12, 2022 7:51 am You will be horrified to learn that most Black Forest Gateaux are not baked in the Black Forest.

raison de arizona wrote: ↑Wed Oct 12, 2022 3:01 pm

Suranis wrote: ↑Wed Oct 12, 2022 7:51 am You will be horrified to learn that most Black Forest Gateaux are not baked in the Black Forest.

I have a bag of Black Forest Gummy Bears sitting in front of me RIGHT NOW and they came from *checks bag* Chicago, IL! *gasp* A hangin' is in order.

KickahaOta wrote: ↑Wed Oct 12, 2022 2:45 pm

Tiredretiredlawyer wrote: ↑Wed Oct 12, 2022 10:33 am A lawyer for Krasner called the contempt vote "undemocratic" because he has already submitted a response to the subpoena in a court filing asking a judge to squash it.

Ah yes, the dreaded Motion to Squash.

(Seriously, I'll allow the reporter that one; they probably got the statement over the phone, and "squash" actually makes sense in context and is delightful.)

A federal magistrate judge ruled pasta giant Barilla cannot duck a class action for false and deceptive advertising, finding consumers could be misled by the phrase “Italy’s #1 brand of pasta” and believe its products are actually made in Italy.

Matthew Sinatro and Jessica Prost say they purchased multiple boxes of Barilla spaghetti and angel hair pasta last year because they thought the products were made in Italy from authentic Italian ingredients— a belief reinforced by the replication of the green, red and white colors of the Italian flag on its signature blue box.

While the company originated in the 19th century as a bread and pasta shop in Parma, Italy, Barilla is now headquartered in Illinois and its pastas are made in Iowa and New York with durum wheat sourced from countries other than Italy.

In their lawsuit, Sinatro and Prost say Barilla took advantage of their readiness to pay more for pasta products that look and sound authentically Italian, and falsely tout their products as such while “cutting costs and reaping the financial benefits of manufacturing the products in the United States of America.” Barilla’s ad campaign features a website, Barilla Historical Archive, a Barilla Pasta Museum, and Barilla Academy, which Sinatro and Prost contend were “all designed to promote the brand and company’s Italian identity.”

U.S. Magistrate Judge Donna Ryu ruled Monday that Sinatro and Prost have sufficiently shown they suffered an economic injury because they would not have purchased the pasta had they known it was not made in Italy.

Their lawsuit bears some similarities to a class action consumers brought against King’s Hawaiian, a Los Angeles-based bakery that fended off claims that its packaging gives the mistaken impression its original “Hawaiian” rolls are actually made in Hawaii. Its label prominently features a three-point crown suggestive of the crown of a pineapple and includes “Est. 1950,” and “Hilo, Hawaii,” in reference to the company’s founding.

In nixing the lawsuit at the pleading stage last year, U.S. District Judge Phyllis Hamilton wrote, “The mere use of a geographic reference, including a reference to the company’s historical origin, does not convey a representation about a product’s current origin.”

But Ryu rejected Barilla’s claim that its packaging likewise invokes the company’s roots in a non-misleading way, ruling that the labels at issue in the King’s Hawaiian case “did not explicitly connect their origin to the present day. Nor did the labels exist against the backdrop of a long-standing marketing strategy expressly connected to a particular geographic location.”

Ryu’s ruling allows the case to move forward, absent a bid for injunctive relief because Sinatro and Prost cannot show they would be harmed in the future by Barilla’s alleged misrepresentations “now that they know where the products are manufactured.”