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HFCS is the main reason that the American people have become obese over the last 30-40 years. In my high school days, graduated in 1978, most young people were not fat, but a few were what you might call heavy. Nothing like the obesity epidemic that we are seeing now, with the resulting diseases that come from it.
ReplyDeleteWhen the truth came out about the switch to HFCS, Coke and Pepsi said nobody noticed the difference, that the taste was the same. They were either fibbing or ignorant.
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The yellow capped Kosher Coke that's available during Passover contains cane sugar instead of HFCS. It sure tastes a lot different.......
DeleteA note about the New Coke that they tried. My parents had a restaurant, with a soda machine. They paid a certain amount for Coke syrup. When the change came to New Coke, the stopped making Coke.
ReplyDeleteWhen the Coke company decided that they made a "mistake", they returned to making the old Coke. But since they no longer had to honor the contracts for the price of syrup for what was originally Coke, but was now called Coke Classic, the price somehow cost much higher. Show me a shocked face.
My parents rented the machine for free with the understanding that they would only use Coke products in it. They said screw you to Coke company and got rid of the Coke machine and put in a universal machine that they bought and switched to Pepsi products. I don't recall if the price was cheaper or more costly, but my parents were the type who didn't let companies screw them.
My parents had that restaurant in a village in my hometown in Michigan called Hesperia. With about 1,000 people in it, you would not think that they could make a go of it, but it was at the crossroads of two major routes to Lake Michigan and to the major road to the Upper Peninsula. Several years in the 1970's and 1980's they grossed over 300 K $.
I should note that my parents were just working class people. My dad worked in a foundry for over 35 years, and my mom nailed pallets in her uncle's crate mill for over 20 years, with her mom spending over 30 years at the same place. They learned how to run a restaurant from one of their cooks and their salespeople, as well as attending food shows.
My mom actually worked there after they sold the place, and she worked until about 4 months before she passed away from stage 4 lung cancer at the age of 79. My dad died one year later almost to the day, from a broken heart, at the age of 86.
They died in debt, and as the executor of their estate, it took me almost 5 years to pay all their bills and settle the whole thing. The youngest of 5 kids, they knew that I was the only one who would ensure that their names were honored by paying all of their debts. My siblings, including a twin brother, wanted me to just let everything go back to the bank and not pay for the funeral. I was proud to make certain that their memories were the same way they lived their lives- honorable and moral.
Regarding sugar and HFCS: For a while a few years ago, Pepsi marketed several of their products in "throwback" editions that were made with real sugar, and anyone with taste buds can tell the difference. Also, some grocery chains and restaurants sell Coca-Cola that was bottled in Mexico and made with real sugar. The taste is a lot crisper than the HFCS taste. It's worth looking for, if you remember and/or want the taste of "the real thing."
ReplyDeleteAs I replied above: The yellow capped Kosher Coke that's available during Passover contains cane sugar instead of HFCS. It sure tastes a lot different.......
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