the world's gone nutty

I’m inclined to think that the world is just getting more bizarre by the day. Around 4pm every afternoon, when everyone in the O&L Purchasing department decides they have been diligent for long enough, the topic of conversation tends to be particularly un-academic.
Today, a colleague and I realised that neither of us knew what a cashew tree looked like. While Sylvia ‘Googled’ it, Richard enquired as to whether her bag of cashews bore the statement ‘May contain traces of nuts’. It did. How unbelievably unnecessary. Does it actually contain anything but nuts?!
As the rest of the team joined the conversation, I learned that the underside of a Marks and Spencer Tiramisu states, ‘Do not turn this product upside-down’. Oops, too late!
Have manufacturers just become patronizing or are consumers simply dense?
I decided it was time to escape the madness when Sylvia suggested she staple her lips shut in order to resist overindulging on the aforementioned cashews. This place cracks me up.