People v. Big Apple Supermarket Inc.

To paraphrase a fine old Greek adage, “ Law is the gift of men but living under law is the course of wisdom.” We will, in due course, determine the manner in which this so prescient suggestion applies to the cause at bar and whether or not an historic aphorism is to be redressed so as to read, “ let the seller beware.”

Few things seem so perennially present in our lives— so free of care in their packaged neatness — so unlikely to shape destiny — as the butter on the supermarket shelf. But now, from behind this benignly impressive fascade of cool gentility emerges a problem for this court to…