A Colorado man is suing over the distress he suffered after eating take-and-bake bread without baking it. The lawsuit filed Feb. 3, with Walmart and Anthony & Sons Italian Bakery as defendants claims a sell-by sticker obscured the instruction that the bread needed further baking. The man bought the loaf at a Colorado Springs Walmart store on Sept. 22, 2025, and ate it the next day during his lunch break, the filing says.
As Jennifer Rankin reports at The Guardian, the case involved a product called Virgin Gin Alkoholfrei. The organization Verband Sozialer Wettbewerb ("Association for Social Competition") filed a lawsuit against the company selling booze-free gin, arguing that to call a beverage without alcohol "gin" was misleading.The court agreed and went on to clarify that "gin" could only be used to describe beverages that met a specific list of criteria, including the use of juniper berries and presence of ethyl alcohol.
There's a horrible waste of food that could feed so many people. Whether it's from restaurants, hospitals, or stores. When I worked in a kitchen, I took the leftover food to shelters. My manager told us all not to let anyone know I did this or where the food was from. The owner's son was against donating food. (Yes, I understand the fear of being sued if someone gets sick.)