On Friday, February 14, 2020 at 8:17:19 AM UTC-10, Bruce wrote:
> 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.

What a shock that must have been. OTOH, you shouldn't expect to get the same stuff when ordering in a different land. You got to just eat like the locals do and shut the hell up. I once saw a couple dressed up like cowboys order some chili in a restaurant and boy, were they upset when they got their food! People should never order chili when they're outside of their country - especially if that country is Texas. That's just common sense.