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The Remarkable Fools Letter

labeling the human condition

not fit for consumption

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Jim Dalling
Jun 13, 2025
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Do you notice labels?

People like reading them.

Some look for ingredients they can pronounce.

Others look for ‘Made in Canada.’

Me?

I like finding labels with weird, improbable shit written on them.

Today I found a great one on a bag of comfy cozy wood pellets. A quick aside dear reader, if you are love cats, wood pellets make for a fantastic medium for them to pis and shit in.

Did you catch what I caught there.

No,

They don’t warn. against using this product for a feline lavatory.

Instead?

They point out a small detail that most would consider pretty obvious - fuel wood pellets are not for human consumption.

Of course not - what do you think you are, a wood stove?

Sure, I like someone with a bit of ‘fire in their belly’ as much as the next dude, but a twenty kilo bag of pellets like that would likely create some pretty dangerous conditions in your gut.

Smokey the bear would not approve.

Dear reader, if you were to dine on would pellets, how would you approach the task?

Me?

I’d likely serve thm w…

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