The major villian in the HFCS saga is U.S. price supports for sugar, which make sugar prices in the U.S. two to four times more than anywhere else. That's also a factor in driving U.S. candy companies to move to Canada and Mexico. Corn sugars are much cheaper. Why manufacturers want to put some kind of sweetener in almost everything baffles me, though.
Stop that right now! I can hear the smacking!
Giles ,'Never Leave Me'
Spike's Bitches 41: Thrown together to stand against the forces of darkness
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Ginger - May 27, 2008 9:10:46 am PDT #670 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Volans - May 27, 2008 9:16:03 am PDT #671 of 10001
move out and draw fire
What Ginger said.
I mean, I don't know a single pizza place that doesn't put HFCS in their dough.
I guess the masses just want everything really sweet.
brenda m - May 27, 2008 9:16:57 am PDT #672 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Huh. I wonder what it adds? (Texture, flavor, shelf life?)
I'm assuming it's used as a thickening agent?
Susan W. - May 27, 2008 9:17:04 am PDT #673 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
I want to do away with "task" as a verb, as in, "Susan has been tasked with updating the handbook," only I'm afraid it's a battle I'm fighting alone.
But I still think it's icky.
Ginger - May 27, 2008 9:19:40 am PDT #674 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I do not like tasked. I also do not understand the rise of "gifting" when we already had "giving."
Steph L. - May 27, 2008 9:22:17 am PDT #675 of 10001
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated
I'm afraid it's a battle I'm fighting alone.
Not alone, although I don't know I can do much good in your company.
I hate "task" as a verb. But I also hate "partner" as a verb, and that seems to have near-wholesale acceptance.
WindSparrow - May 27, 2008 9:30:00 am PDT #676 of 10001
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
Utilize. What is wrong with use?
Steph L. - May 27, 2008 9:31:53 am PDT #677 of 10001
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated
Okay, I have a fondness for "utilize" simply because of The Sun Also Rises.
"Will you utilize?"
Ginger - May 27, 2008 9:55:35 am PDT #678 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
The only thing I have a fondness for because of Hemingway is Faulkner.
Atropa - May 27, 2008 9:58:18 am PDT #679 of 10001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
I want to get rid of "onboarding". Oooh, and "leverage" as in "We can leverage the other team's work".