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On Sep 14, 1:50*pm, "FOB" wrote:
Is still the same evil HFCS.http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/0...-high-fructose... 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? |
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"FOB" wrote: Is still the same evil HFCS. http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/0...ctose-corn-syr up/?partner=rss&emc=rss http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/a...ex.xml?section =topstories A sweet problem: Princeton researchers find that high-fructose corn syrup prompts considerably more weight gain Posted March 22, 2010; 10:00 a.m. by Hilary Parker A Princeton University research team has demonstrated that all sweeteners are not equal when it comes to weight gain: Rats with access to high-fructose corn syrup gained significantly more weight than those with access to table sugar, even when their overall caloric intake was the same.* -- - Billy "Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power." - Benito Mussolini. http://www.democracynow.org/2010/7/2/maude http://english.aljazeera.net/video/m...515308172.html |
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