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You cannot call your food product "gourmet", "premium", "homemade", "homestyle" or "grandma's original recipe" if you use high-fructose corn syrup. This stuff used to be thrown away by agribusiness as a waste product, and only came into play with the artificially high price of sugar - one of the few obvious cases of Small Government Republicans consistently voting to keep the free market from running free like they claim they want. Ask anybody from another country that doesn't have the stuff in their food supply how our food tastes, and they'll tell you just how much worse our Coca Cola is unless it's near Passover.
So: tastes worse, costs less and has no redeeming social value - sounds like trash to me. Trash is not Gourmet unless it's hanging in the Guggenheim and called Art, and sometimes not even then. This isn't even counting the health effects, like rapidly expanding waistlines and increased risk of diabetes. No, the stuff is nasty. I will pay the extra penny for honest-to-Cats sugar in my food. Cats have more taste than that, and they lick each others' ears!
To those businesses big and small that have changed over from high fructose corn syrup to sugar, or never needed to make the changeover in the first place, I salute you. More to the point, I've thrown a few extra pennies your way. Now you can afford to buy that Wii for the office you've been lusting after. Or maybe the Maserati, my budget's been a bit leaner the past few weeks.
To the rest of you: I will not buy any of your items in the store that have high fructose corn syrup, and I will keep calling you nasty names until you either stop putting it in or at least have the grace and honesty to call your products "factory recipe", "mass market swill", "just like your psycho uncle used to make", "original laboratory recipe" or "the cheapest stuff we could find on the street from that Bruno guy and his brother Bob".
So: tastes worse, costs less and has no redeeming social value - sounds like trash to me. Trash is not Gourmet unless it's hanging in the Guggenheim and called Art, and sometimes not even then. This isn't even counting the health effects, like rapidly expanding waistlines and increased risk of diabetes. No, the stuff is nasty. I will pay the extra penny for honest-to-Cats sugar in my food. Cats have more taste than that, and they lick each others' ears!
To those businesses big and small that have changed over from high fructose corn syrup to sugar, or never needed to make the changeover in the first place, I salute you. More to the point, I've thrown a few extra pennies your way. Now you can afford to buy that Wii for the office you've been lusting after. Or maybe the Maserati, my budget's been a bit leaner the past few weeks.
To the rest of you: I will not buy any of your items in the store that have high fructose corn syrup, and I will keep calling you nasty names until you either stop putting it in or at least have the grace and honesty to call your products "factory recipe", "mass market swill", "just like your psycho uncle used to make", "original laboratory recipe" or "the cheapest stuff we could find on the street from that Bruno guy and his brother Bob".
