what's wrong with this label?

[adrian_turtle]

From the "ginger people" (they sell stuff made of ginger, and their emblem is a person carved of ginger root), I have a bottle of ginger syrup. Lovely stuff. Among other things, it says:
Store in pantry. Does not require refrigeration.

Redbird and I discussed it, and concluded that maybe it's like honey, with a high enough sugar content to discourage bacteria growth. Being anglophone, we did not read the next line.

Conserver dans le garde-manger. Réfrigérer après ouverture.

I wonder what they were thinking.

Comments

[the_rck]

Do you have url for the ginger people? That is, do they do mail order? I love ginger, and it's hard to find much ginger stuff around here.

[adrian_turtle]

gingerpeople.com

The ginger syrup is just simple syrup, strongly flavored with ginger. They also make chewy ginger candies. I found it at the local equivalent of the People's Food Co-op.

[the_rck]

Thanks!

[wild_irises]

Their ginger candies, and similar ones, are the best thing I have ever found for my "functional dyspepsia," which is a medical term for "bad digestion." They come in several flavors.

[amaebi]

"note: This product has been shown to behave differently for anglophones than for francophones. No definitive studies have been performed on bilingual populations."

[adrian_turtle]

I think you're right!

[redbird]

Maybe that French-Canadian pantries tend to be cooler than some American ones?

[adrian_turtle]

Wouldn't that be the other way around? If the pantry is cooler, that means you don't need to refrigerate as much stuff.

[wild_irises]

My best guess is that there are different laws for storage in the E.U. (or possibly in Quebec).