Every year, millions of people carve pumpkins as Halloween approaches, but how did pumpkins become the holiday icon that bologna cake know and love today? Hard no from me,” one user captioned his Oct. 29 post in a Facebook group with over 52,000 people.
Over 350 people shared the post in less than a week. 20 grams of sugar per serving. That would be 20 times the amount in the company’s classic wieners. The idea of “black licorice sausage” isn’t as far out as it might seem. Anise is used as flavoring for black licorice, and anise seed is a common ingredient in Italian sausage. USA TODAY reached out to several users who shared the post for comment. Television writer and producer Steve Marmel posted a reply to his viral tweet of the image saying, “I don’t care if it’s fake.
This is not a real product,” Stephanie Peterson, head of U. Kraft Heinz, wrote USA TODAY in an email. The photo is an example of what could be called stolen satire, in which made-up claims published and labeled as satire are captured via screenshot and reposted in a way that makes them appear to be legitimate news. As a result, readers of the second-generation post are misled, as was the case here. USA TODAY he created the photo. The page regularly posts digital images of outlandish products such as birthday-cake-flavored mayonnaise and “Monster Mash” energy-drink-infused mashed potatoes.