Every 10-year-old kid knows that... (Reuters) Updated: 2006-04-14 16:34 It's a "factual reality" that
beans make you break wind, says South Africa's advertising watchdog.
 Kidney Beans are seen
in an undated photo. It's a 'factual reality' that beans make you break
wind, says South Africa's advertising watchdog.
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A TV advert for sweet onions showed a rugby player eating beans that made him
smell "stinky." The advert claims that "with sweet onions there are no tears, no
burn and definitely no stink."
The country's Dry Bean Producers Organization complained about the advert on
the basis that the "stinky" charge was untrue but the Advertising Standards
Authority threw out the charge and said it was widely known that beans produce
gas.
"It plays on an objectively determinable factual reality which cannot be
denied..." the ASA said on its Web site.
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