In the USA, when a flag indicates that something is in English, such as a list of ingredients on foodstuff, do they use the British flag (the union jack) or the United States flag?

It would be kind of silly to use the American flag, but maybe they do because they can. :em321:

There isn't a flag on the ingredients. Keep in mind that 99% of all the stuff we have was made specifically for the USA, so there doesn't need to be internationalization.

That actually crossed my mind...oh well.

I was thinking a lot of your products might have stuff in Spanish, though, what with the big number of immigrants who speak it.

There's a lot of Spanish and French instructions etc, but they're just in spanish or french...no flags needed.

[QUOTE=Dj Yoshi]There's a lot of Spanish and French instructions etc, but they're just in spanish or french...no flags needed.[/QUOTE]

Oh.

Maybe Europeans are stupider so we need those flags.

I'd go with that.

On the other hand, it makes some Europeans smarter, because they can identify the flags of some European nations.

Holy paradox, Batman!

Just about every automotive part and related product has Spanish as well as English labels on it.

A lot of stuff from other countries that uses flags seems to use the British instead of US flag.

That's so the Brittish can recognize the English. Duh!

I generally figure that if you don't understand the language you won't need to know /what/ language it is. If you buy a box of Kraft macaroni and see instructions in Russian and know Russian, more power.. you don't need a flag to tell you that what you're reading is in fact Russian.

I think the real purpose for those flags is to draw your eyes to the correct set of directions quickly on a pamphlet or notice that has many different languages on it. Saves time searching for your language.

The Union Jack is only called the Union Jack when its on a ship, otherwise its called the Union flag... Yeah...

Well, in Europe there are so many languages that it's only interesting to be able to at least know the name of the language even if you aren't able to decipher a single word of it (and besides you often are able to make out some words, which is genuinely interesting). Call it curiosity. I don't like such boxes, wrappings or other things that don't give that little piece of information.

Seems logical for European companies to use such packaging. It's just not necessary in the Americas with there really only being two-three widespread languages. And, if we did use such a system it actually would make more sense to use the American Flag for English over a Brittish Flag because more people here might identify that flag. However, it also makes no sense to use any flags as Canada is English/French, US is English/Spanish, and south of the US is primarily Spanish yet encompassing numerous countries. No flag accurately represents any of the languages here.

We're just all sorts of messed up on this side.

On what side?