Sugar Fueled Rant
Have you seen the ads from the High Fructose Corn Syrup peeps? The ones where someone blanches at an HFCS riddled treat, but can't come up with any reasons for her distaste, only to be shamed into aquiescence by her condescending, bug-eyed and benevolent HFCS lovin' friend? It drives me insane that they call it "natural" when to get the final product, they have to take corn starch and treat it with three different enzymes to break it down to the molecuar level and force the desired levels of sugars. Yeah, just like chewing on a stick of sugar cane. Mostly what scares me is, what is it doing in whole wheat bread, or spaghetti sauce, or salad dressing, or yogurt? Turning me into one of those bug-eyed benevolent friends who is shoving a popsicle down your throat, that's what.
It seems like such a rip-off that all sodas and Snapples and "juices" just turn out to be corn syrup and water. I have corn syrup and water at home, but I'm not going to stir them together and drink them. It reminds me of when I had that "Ah-ha" moment making Kool-Aid. "Wait, it's not just that the recipe for Kool-Aid INCLUDES one cup of sugar and some water. Kool-Aid IS merely water with one cup of sugar! What a scam."
Even better: your tax dollars subsidize the hell out of the corn industry. Better diabetes though chemistry.
I'll be sneering at the cornfields near grandma's house for a whole new reason now.
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