Mmmmm, High Fructose Corn Syrup

[Mike Gayner]

Yesterday I found this in the International Foods aisle: (picture from Google)

I'm pretty sure it's the first thing I've tasted with HFCS in it - well done America, you have pleased me.

 

[IronWing]

Is it that time of month again?

Also, that stuff is fudging disgusting, Ubet chocolate syrup FTW!

 

[Miramonti]

You're easily impressed.

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

Do want.

 

[Red Squirrel]

That would be awesome on ice cream, or just like that. Just eat it straight from the jar with a spoon LOL.

 

[Mike Gayner]

Do want.

 

[funboy6942]

I laugh at the commercials for this stuff. "Its fine in moderation". Almost everything has this shit in it, how the hell do you make it fine in moderation, when almost anything you pick up has the stuff in it? Nothing is made with just regular sugar anymore, they all use this corn crap.

 

[reallyscrued]

Yesterday I found this in the International Foods aisle: (picture from Google)

I'm pretty sure it's the first thing I've tasted with HFCS in it - well done America, you have pleased me.

Are you serious about the HFCS thing or is my sarcasm meter in need of repair?

 

[Mike Gayner]

I laugh at the commercials for this stuff. "Its fine in moderation". Almost everything has this shit in it, how the hell do you make it fine in moderation, when almost anything you pick up has the stuff in it? Nothing is made with just regular sugar anymore, they all use this corn crap.

This is only true in USA. Like I said, I'm pretty sure this is the first time I've had something with HFCS in it.

edit:

Are you serious about the HFCS thing or is my sarcasm meter in need of repair?

Nothing has HFCS here except for the odd thing in International Foods that is imported from USA.

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

Are you serious about the HFCS thing or is my sarcasm meter in need of repair?

I don't think I've ever had HCFS. There isn't exactly a huge corn industry here

 

[SonicIce]

Do want.

 

[SonicIce]

I don't think I've ever had HCFS. There isn't exactly a huge corn industry here

now seriously look on every lebel im sure you'll find it

 

[Red Squirrel]

Actually I'm thinking HCFS might be a US thing. Here in Canada pepsi has had sugar for ever, and recently it was this big thing in the US "Pepsi will have sugar now instead of HCFS!" Unless by Sugar, they do actually mean HCFS. How is it normally labeled? For here it just says "Sugars 41g"

 

[Mike Gayner]

now seriously look on every lebel im sure you'll find it

Erm, thanks, but I know how to read a label. Pretty much the only place HFCS is common is the USA because of a protected corn industry (AFAIK).

 

[SunSamurai]

Corn products or soy is in just about everything you see in a grocery store.

Farmers market ftw

 

[CanOWorms]

Actually I'm thinking HCFS might be a US thing. Here in Canada pepsi has had sugar for ever, and recently it was this big thing in the US "Pepsi will have sugar now instead of HCFS!" Unless by Sugar, they do actually mean HCFS. How is it normally labeled? For here it just says "Sugars 41g"

Pepsi in Canada uses HFCS. It's just not called HFCS in Canada. It's usually labeled something like Sugar/Glucose-Fructose.

 

[gaidensensei]

Pepsi in Canada uses HFCS. It's just not called HFCS in Canada. It's usually labeled something like Sugar/Glucose-Fructose.

Whoa, that's uber misleading. Has it always been that way?

 

[KillerCharlie]

Pepsi in Canada uses HFCS. It's just not called HFCS in Canada. It's usually labeled something like Sugar/Glucose-Fructose.

Haha, at least here they call it what it is.

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

HFCS is common in USA for two reasons: your corn industry is government subsidized (funny you don't see tea baggers pulling the "socialism" card on that one), and you have a tariff on sugar imports.

I just bought a vending machine lunch (I'm on campus on a Sunday, sue me). I have a packet of M&Ms that was manufactured in Australia and has no HFCS. I also have a bottle of Deep Spring fruit drink manufactured by Coca-Cola Amitil in Wellington, NZ which has no HFCS.

now seriously look on every lebel im sure you'll find it

Why do you think this?

 

[JulesMaximus]

Fuck that, I'd rather go back to making food the old fashioned way...you know, with flour, sugar, cocoa powder, and butter.

I made banana nut bread today and it has the following ingredients in it: bananas, nuts, butter, eggs, sugar, flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt...that's it. And it's fucking fantastic!!!

And you know what? It was easy! I needed two bowls, a bread baking pan, an oven, and a mixer...which is all you really need to make any bread.

 

[Demo24]

M&M's don't have HFCS in America either. It doesn't have to be a 'desert' type food to contain HFCS.

 

[eits]

Fuck that, I'd rather go back to making food the old fashioned way...you know, with flour, sugar, cocoa powder, and butter.

I made banana nut bread today and it has the following ingredients in it: bananas, nuts, butter, eggs, sugar, flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt...that's it. And it's fucking fantastic!!!

And you know what? It was easy! I needed two bowls, a bread baking pan, an oven, and a mixer...which is all you really need to make any bread.

oh man... banana nut bread... one of my achilles heels... the other one being ice cream.

 

[ElFenix]

Erm, thanks, but I know how to read a label. Pretty much the only place HFCS is common is the USA because of a protected corn industry (AFAIK).

well, it was the protected sugar industry, which has now grown into the protected corn industry.

 

[SunSamurai]

I blame corrupt government letting shithole corporations like Monsanto patent life, among other things that get us corn crazed up here. Corn is cheap as fuck to farm so they put it in everything. Feeding cows it and letting them fester with ecoli.

 

[mmntech]

Pepsi in Canada uses HFCS. It's just not called HFCS in Canada. It's usually labeled something like Sugar/Glucose-Fructose.

This.

There's a clear difference between HFCS and cane sugar. Try Coca-Cola in Mexico where they use the latter. It's like the nectar of the gods.