I don't buy many foods that come with packaging, let alone labels of ingredients. However, I got a craving for dill pickles and picked up a big jar of Kosher dill spears with a famous brand from the Costco refrigerator.

When I fished up one for lunch, it tasted incredibly sweet. Immediately I thought, They don't put sugar in dill pickles...do they?? Check label.

No, they didn't put sugar in these dill pickles, thank goodness.

However, I got to reading the Nutrition Facts, and discovered one of those weaselly things packers do to make you think you're getting a nutritional bargain of some kind. The facts listed Carbs at less than 1gm per serving. Great!

But what is a "serving" according to this label? One Half of one spear of dill pickle. Who eats one half of a dill pickle spear???

I can handle one carb of pickle. But I didn't appreciate the fudged numbers, if not the deception, of that nutrition label. It's a kind of sticker shock I'll mostly avoid in the future.