Everything has HFCS in it. Bread. Tomato sauce. Salad dressings, ketchup, mayo. Canned beans.

I try to avoid it when I can. We go to the farmer's market when it's open. I'm trying to cook more good stuff. Those are changes I can make because we have money and I work at home.

But yeah, if I had no disposable income, no car, no farmer's market, and no grocery store in walking distance, I'd probably get pretty grumpy at someone telling me that I should change my lifestyle.

Clearly, we all need to go beat up the HFCS makers.

The whole segment just reminded me of a ridiculous conversation my sister had with a friend about the "simple life" movement. This woman was going on and on about getting back to basics (in that "I have a lot of money" way of course) and my sister just finally said "My sister does that. It's called being poor."

Oh, like the way I always laugh about the "country antiques" I see in the fancy schmancy decorating magazines and I remember how eager my country neighbors were to pawn off that old battered table with the chipped paint and the wobbly legs to the city folk.

Of course, then I wonder just how old that wobbly table with the turned legs is that everyone says, "Oh, Grandma had that, I think her grandma had it," and no one thinks to wonder that under all the old paint and dog-chews might be something grand.

What the hell, Yoplait.

For some reason this phrase is cracking me up. I'm imagining using it in any situation where I would say "what the hell," and I think the added "Yoplait" gives it a piquant charm.

(Also, Yoplait's custard-style yogurt is my favorite, and the HFCS thing drives me nuts since I love the yogurt so.)

Everything has HFCS in it. Bread. Tomato sauce. Salad dressings, ketchup, mayo. Canned beans.

This is what makes me itchy about those pro-HFCS commercials I see sometimes, where they're saying that it's "fine in moderation." Yeah, I'm sure it is, but the way food is processed makes it next to impossible to eat it only in moderation.

I hate that food makers think that everyone wants everything sweet, i.e. low fat salad dressings are full of HFCS and they taste awful.

Everything has HFCS in it.

My TGI Friday's Cheese and Bacon Potato Skins Snack Chips don't! Of course, they've got lots of partially hydrogenated oils, but they've also got plain ol' sugar.

Everything has HFCS in it. Bread. Tomato sauce. Salad dressings, ketchup, mayo. Canned beans.

Yeah, I've been noticing! It's weird. I mean, I get all the HFCS I need from my Coke, dammit.

What the hell, Yoplait.

For some reason this phrase is cracking me up. I'm imagining using it in any situation where I would say "what the hell," and I think the added "Yoplait" gives it a piquant charm.

Heh. If I am good for one thing, it's making expletives amusing.

P.S. Props on the use of "piquant." By the way, you would probably enjoy Scott Pilgrim. It is full of piquant charm.

I hate that food makers think that everyone wants everything sweet, i.e. low fat salad dressings are full of HFCS and they taste awful.

This is my issue with yogurt. Even the ones with real sugar are just so sweet.

I don't really get many HFCS as I don't eat much processed food. But I hate having to look at the labels of bread and the few processed things I do buy.

Hey, Sparky, did you notice that mixed puppy next to you biting her person?

I didn't notice. But then again, I myself was being kicked from within non-consentually, so I was distracted.

I have to say, I gave up pre-mixed yogurt a long time ago because they were too sweet and stick with plain from one of the local places, adding my own fruit or preserves.

By the way, you would probably enjoy Scott Pilgrim. It is full of piquant charm.

I read your LJ post this morning, and it sounds like my kind of book. I need to pick it up.