Stan Horwitz wrote:

This is the perfect example of an issue where the marketplace can decide
just fine. As long as this is clearly labeled, I have no problem with
using vegetable oils and milk instead of real cocoa butter because, if
enough people dislike the product, they will simply not buy it and opt
for more expensive premium chocolate.

Don't you think it is reasonable to have a few shortcuts so
that some popular products are succinctly labled? For example
"milk" means cow's milk not elephant milk, even when you don't
read the fine print.

Steve

Terry Pulliam Burd wrote:
of America, a trade group, campaign to let chocolate makers replace
cocoa butter with vegetable oils and milk (for milk chocolate) with
"milk protein concentrates." This is just *wrong*, IMHO. Sees and

I'm somewhat curious as to how "milk protein concentrates" differs
from "milk solids" which are currently used. The milk in milk chocolate
has been powdered milk of some sort for 100 years or more. I'm not
a big fan of the vegetable oils in chocolates, because they generally
have to hydrogenate them to keep them solid at room temperatures.

On the other hand, Hershey convinced the FDA a few years ago to let
them call white chocolate, white chocolate. Before that anything
that did not have a certain percentage of cocoa solids in it wasn't
allowed to be called "chocolate" even if it used pure cocoa butter.

Bill Ranck
Blacksburg, Va.

In article ,
(Steve Pope) wrote:

Stan Horwitz wrote:

This is the perfect example of an issue where the marketplace can decide
just fine. As long as this is clearly labeled, I have no problem with
using vegetable oils and milk instead of real cocoa butter because, if
enough people dislike the product, they will simply not buy it and opt
for more expensive premium chocolate.

Don't you think it is reasonable to have a few shortcuts so
that some popular products are succinctly labled? For example
"milk" means cow's milk not elephant milk, even when you don't
read the fine print.

No. If a product that is heavily based on a particular ingredient, such
as milk in a bar of chocolate, is non-standard, the difference should be
clearly labeled.

On Thu, 19 Apr 2007 12:41:01 -0500, in rec.food.cooking, Charlene Charette
wrote:

I agree that it was a sin to change from sugar to
corn syrup, nevertheless, Coke is still the best cola
out there and I won't dring anything else. It's infinitely
better than Pepsi (spawn of the evil empire).

Are there really only two options for most of the country? I don't
drink soda, but my husband prefers RC cola.

So do I, but I'm in the UK and we don't have it here.
But what we do have in Europe that the US doesn't have is Pepsi Max, a
diet version of Pepsi (not Diet Pepsi) that tastes like regular Pepsi.

When I'm visiting family in Indiana I drink RC.

Doug
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