I\'ve been a victim of snopes a few times. The Life in the 1500\'s was one of them. The other was how Gerbers Baby Food has pics of a baby on its label. I read an email about how in Africa, canned foods would have the animal on the label to let the illiterate Africans know what food is in the can.
Of course, the email goes on to elaborate about how Africans were shocked to see Gerber\'s baby food with babies as the ingredients so they had to come up with a different label. Fake. Africans are literate and the email was probably some attempt to stereotype Africans as illiterate and lacking common sense. Gerbers has no problem selling their products in Africa whatsoever.
