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In many countries, food products must have their {{w|Nutrition facts label|ingredients displayed}} somewhere on their packaging. Because all the ingredients in any food are either hydrogen or heavier atoms created through stellar nuclear fusion from hydrogen over time, the ingredients of any items can technically be described fully as only being made from hydrogen and time. Thus this label would be the universal label. A pun on two of the meanings of the word [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/universal universal]. Any food is of course ''universal'' as in a part of the universe. But the label can also be a ''universal'' label as in a common label for all food or any other product in the universe, as well as the universe itself for that {{w|matter}}.
 
In many countries, food products must have their {{w|Nutrition facts label|ingredients displayed}} somewhere on their packaging. Because all the ingredients in any food are either hydrogen or heavier atoms created through stellar nuclear fusion from hydrogen over time, the ingredients of any items can technically be described fully as only being made from hydrogen and time. Thus this label would be the universal label. A pun on two of the meanings of the word [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/universal universal]. Any food is of course ''universal'' as in a part of the universe. But the label can also be a ''universal'' label as in a common label for all food or any other product in the universe, as well as the universe itself for that {{w|matter}}.
  
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The title text first makes it clear that this works both for any {{w|grocery}} as well as any non-grocery, which as described above simply means anything else. It then goes on to making a pun on the words {{w|thyme}} (a herb) and {{w|time}}, as the two words are {{w|homophones}}. "H" is the chemical symbol for hydrogen thus completing the pun by noticing that the word "thyme" can be made by adding the letter "h" to "tyme" which would be a homophone even closer to the word time.
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The title text is a pun on the words {{w|thyme}} (a herb) and {{w|time}}, as the two words are {{w|homophones}}. Also, "H" is the chemical symbol for hydrogen. So the word "thyme" can be made by adding the letter "h" to the letters "tyme", even closer to the word time and also homophone to it.
  
 
[[Randall]] previously made a joke on the fact that thyme and time are homophones in [[282: Organic Fuel]].
 
[[Randall]] previously made a joke on the fact that thyme and time are homophones in [[282: Organic Fuel]].

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