Thu, Apr-22-04, 21:28
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New Member
Posts: 7
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Plan: Atkins
Stats: 137.5/141/130
BF:
Progress: -47%
Location: Atlanta, GA
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Warning: SKYY Sport "Low Carb" Malt Beverage
I was so excited when I saw SKYY Sport Low Carb in the grocery store. I had been a big fan of SKYY before I started LCing. For those of you who aren't familiar with it, it's an alcoholic malt beverage similar to Smirnoff Ice.
The packaging advertised SKYY Sport as low carb, but I couldn't find the carb count anywhere. Kind of unusual for a low-carb product, right? Only by reading the tiniest print on the bottle label was I able to discover that each bottle contains 15 g of carbs! How can they claim that as low-carb? It's roughly the amount of carbs in a whole six-pack of Michelob Ultra. SKYY has opportunistically defined "low-carb" for their new drink as "less than 1/2 the carbs of other top selling flavored malt beverages." So SKYY Sport is only low-carb in comparison to its ridiculously high-carb counterpart.
What a disappointment! And it makes me a bit angry, too. Of course, LCers always have to be vigilant about sketchy product representation, but this seems like outright false advertising to me. BTW, I foolishly bought a six-pack of this stuff because I imagined that I saw a low carb count on the box somewhere. I really wanted it to be low carb, I guess. It wasn't until I got it home that I realized my mistake. I hope Publix gives refunds on booze!
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