The Daily WTF

To wrap up our best-of year in review, here’s yet another case where a simple problem is solved using simple tools, and everything still turns out entirely wrong. Original. — Remy

As we’ve seen previously, not all government jobs are splashy. Someone has to maintain, for example, the database that keeps track of every legal additive to food so that paranoid hippies can call them liars and insist they all cause cancer and autism. Today’s submitter, Cass, had just released an update when users started getting the dreaded blue Internal Error screen—never a good start to the week.

Everything that’s added to food is added for a reason; otherwise, why spend money doing it? The additive website allows searching by function, as well as by name. For example, some items might be alternative sweeteners, while others might be coloring agents. The problem of the week turned out

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