The Hidden Forbiddens

The munchies got me the other day and as I was digging through the cupboard looking for something yummy to eat, this cookie package caught my eye.

Notice anything weird about it?  No?  Take a look again.  See that big white sticker on the package?  What's that all about?

I won't pretend I haven't noticed this before. It was on one of my first grocery getting trips here that I noticed that random packages of foods have words or phrasing covered.  Sometimes it's inked out with colored markers, sometimes covered with labels.  And I've just kind of thought "Weird!" but never dwelled on it too much.

Well on this occasion the other day, I put my hunger aside and decided to explore what was hiding under that white sticker.  Here's what I found.

Not sure why the lack of trans fat is a secret, but here in Hong Kong, it is. 

So then I poked through our pantry some more and found this, also covered with a label.

And under the label, this:

So apparently the Chinese don't want shoppers to know about products lacking fat.  They want you to think you're getting the full fatty product.

In the fridge, my coffee creamer looks like this.

That big gold dot is metallic marker covering up something.  Perhaps my Coffee Mate is also fat free.  I kind of hope it is since that's what I always bought back home.

So when I did the marketing earlier today, I paid special attention to this label censoring.  I'm quite certain the stock boys thought I was one strange white woman taking pictures of food, but here's what I found.  Can you find the hidden forbiddens on these products?

I hope the food products in the US know how lucky they are to have freedom of expression!