The South Africa Advertising Standards Authority has ruled that eating
beans leads to intestinal gas, the NY Times reported today. In
official phraseology, they said it was "objectively determinable
factual reality" that people who eat beans pass gas.

Bean producers had complained about an ad that made fun of them, but
the Authority said the ad was okay because it was based on "objectively
determinable....."

Neither the story nor, presumably, the Advertising Standards Authority
made any mention of Beano. -aem