Disgusting discovery of the day
Dec. 21st, 2004 02:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dianec42Christmas is coming, and that means MINCE PIES!
Out of curiosity, I just looked at the ingredient lists on the two jars of mince we have in the kitchen. The one from England (via the somewhat overpriced British-stuff store in Santa Monica) is fine, apart from containing vegetarian suet which is kind of weird. The American one, however, lists CORN SYRUP as the first ingredient. That's just so gross and wrong.
What is is with the apparent American fascination with making everything out of corn?! Surely anyone with a working set of taste buds would know not to do THAT...
Out of curiosity, I just looked at the ingredient lists on the two jars of mince we have in the kitchen. The one from England (via the somewhat overpriced British-stuff store in Santa Monica) is fine, apart from containing vegetarian suet which is kind of weird. The American one, however, lists CORN SYRUP as the first ingredient. That's just so gross and wrong.
What is is with the apparent American fascination with making everything out of corn?! Surely anyone with a working set of taste buds would know not to do THAT...
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Date: 2004-12-21 11:24 pm (UTC)Because it's domestic and cheaper than sending money to Carribean countries for processed sugar cane?
>Surely anyone with a working set of taste buds would know not to do THAT...
Well, once you've drunk the Kool-aid sweetened with it...
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Date: 2004-12-22 03:29 am (UTC)Corn syrup is cheaper than sugar because there's a stiff import quota on Carribean sugar to prop up the US sugar growers. As The Economist described it, "Taxing the rich to destroy the poor."
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Date: 2004-12-22 03:34 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-12-22 03:39 am (UTC)You've obviously never had
Even Mexican Coca-Cola has corn syrup in it these days. Bloody NAFTA...
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Date: 2004-12-22 11:17 pm (UTC)Import tariffs that make real sugar much more expensive than in the rest of the world. Thank your Midwestern politicians.