On Fri, 14 Feb 2020 09:45:15 -0800 (PST), dsi1
> wrote:

>On Friday, February 14, 2020 at 6:05:13 AM UTC-10, Gary wrote:
>> Read this last week and found it interesting:
>>
>> "High fructose corn syrup (HFCS) is a nutritive sweetener similar
>> to table sugar (sucrose). It's used by the food industry because
>> of it's many qualities, including stability, broad
>> functionability and abundant raw material in the (USA) Midwest.
>> As a rise in obesity coincided with it's introduction, some
>> people believed it must be the cause.
>>
>> But HFCS was soon shown to have no means of causing obesity that
>> sucrose doesn't have, and their calories are the same. If it were
>> removed from the market, consumers would simply find products
>> more expensive."
>
>It's widespread use in the food industry is simply because it's cheap. Americans are fat simply because food is cheap. It's all so very simple.

On TV, I saw an English woman order a tea in Texas somewhere. She was
expecting a cup of hot tea. She got a bucket of cold, sweet
something-or-other with a straw.