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**FOB** · September 15th, 2010, 04:28 PM posted to alt.support.diet.low-carb

The sugar is meant to compensate for the fat they remove. It doesn't work.

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| Sure is. And despite the claims that it's being renamed to make it
| less confusing, I would think the real reason is just the opposite.
| HFCS has gotten so much bad press they want to now call it something
| else, figuring it will take a long time before consumers figure out
| that it's the same thing.
|
| On a side note that is sugar related, I recently had the urge to
| splurge on a hot fudge sunday. While I eat LC ice cream
| occasionally, I had not had a good hot fudge sunday in a long time. I
| almost always just eat ice cream, not a sunday of any kind. So, I
| went to one of the popular local ice cream shops and got one. It
| was a total disappointment. The ice cream itself was way too
| sweet. The hot fudge came out of a pump, wasn't all that chocolatey,
| and was even more over sweetened. It was probably half corn syrup.
| They asked if I wanted nuts, I said yes, and got walnuts drenched in
| syrup. Yuk! The whipped cream was similar to Redi Whip and didn't
| even taste as good.
|
| A few days later I repeated the experiment at another shop that had
| won a recent contest for the best vanilla. The results were about
| the same, including the vanilla ice cream. IMO, it wasn't as good as
| Hagen Daz.
|
| It got me thinking back to the late 70s when I was a college student
| in Boston. Steve's ice cream was the hot spot, with long lines
| almost all the time. Their ice cream was rich, delicious and not
| overly sweet. The hot fudge came from a dipper out of the heated
| bucket, and was more like a melted chocolate bar. You couldn't make
| it squeeze through a pump. They had only dry nuts, not the syrup
| loaded crap we have today. The whipped cream was just like the kind
| you make at home.
|
| One of these days I'm going to make a real one from scratch here
| myself just to see once again what it really should be like. It's sad
| that even with products like ice cream they put way more sugar in it
| than necessary. I'm left wondering if people had a taste test choice
| between the kind of product the first two shops put out versus the
| Steve's product, which would they prefer? Are these shops just
| putting out crap because it's cheaper, more profit, etc, or do people
| actually prefer what they are making?