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I've wondered about this for a while: There are certain marketing terms I see that just don't make any sense to me and I don't get how they don't count as false advertising.

The two examples I'm thinking of at the moment are:

  • "Best Seller" on books. There do seem to be a lot of these. Definitionally can't that simply not be true? There can be only one "best" for a given metric such as book sales in copies or dollars.

  • "Homemade" on various foods either from restaurants or packaged things in supermarkets. Like surely "homemade" implies it was made in someone's home right? There is also the less obvious implication that it was handmade as opposed to produced by some automated factory process. But surely this can't be the case right? There's no way someone made the jar of tomato sauce I bought at the store in their home unless they have people living in a factory.

I'd also be curious about any other terms like this that I've forgotten or don't know about.

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Utter jabberwocky

Why that man doesn't chew though