California Woman Sues Jelly Belly for Using Sugar…

I’m not the sort of person who automatically considers every court action filed against any business anywhere is one of those so-called "frivolous lawsuits," but you know some of them just have to be filed by people in search of a financial payday instead of some kind of “justice.” Feel free to make up your own mind on this one, which was recently reported in a “Men’s Health” blog post:

Californian Jessica Gomez has filed suit against the Jelly Belly jellybean company for using sugar in their Sport Beans but not “telling her” that they had. Yes, it’s true: according to the lawsuit, Gomez read the list of ingredients on the back of a package of the company’s Sport Beans and found “evaporated cane juice” instead of  “sugar.” Instead of reading the remainder of the nutritional information, which according to my exposure to the product says that each one-ounce packet of the beans contains 17g of sugar, she assumed that they were sugar-free. Heaven only knows how many of the packets she ate, but at over twenty-one bucks a pound ($1.35/ounce), we’d hope it wasn’t many…

Gomez – and potentially millions of others, since the attorneys have constructed a class-action suit – feels sufficiently aggrieved that she wants Jelly Belly to pay up for their “sin.”

Yeah, I can agree: those Sport Beans cost far more than they’re worth (but, then, most products in this field are ridiculously expensive). But I have to say that if you’re so unconscious that you can’t figure out from the nutritional information on the package that there’s sugar in it, you just might deserve whatever happens to you. That’s especially true if you’re (pretending you) are conscientious about how much sugar you consume. Just like if you can’t figure out that coffee made with boiling water is hot…

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