f%#ing high fructose corn syrup!!!

[onlycafe]

i had to get some store bbq sauce for a quick thing today. the first three bottles i picked up had hfcs as their first ingredient. after looking at eight different brands i could only find one that did not have hfcs in the first three ingredients.
no wonder we are in the state we are in. wtf?

feel free to move this to you know where if it goes sideways.

[Crowbob]

BBQ sauce is for ribs, usually. What were you cooking up?

[onlycafe]

pulled pork bbq pizza.

[Crowbob]

Pulled pork bbq pizza. MMMMMM. Sounds great. Not to be critical but I was wondering, isn't non-hfcs on pulled pork bbq pizza similar to buying diet coke and large fries as McD's? Really I'm not being critical. What's hfcs got to do with the state we are in?

[Tobra]

Bullseye revised their formula and no longer uses HFCS, aka corn sweetener poison

[Porsche-O-Phile]

Get Bulls-Eye. Tastes good and NO corn syrup crap. Yeah it's a Kraft product (bleah) but it's decent for flavor.

[sammyg2]

Uh oh, did I miss a report from the liberal media telling me I shouldn't eat HFCS? That's not fair, I didn't know!
If they're going to do all my thinking for me and dictate everything i can and can't eat, at least you'd think they could get better at making sure i see the newscast!

Hopefully they won't put me in liberal jail or something

[Porsche-O-Phile]

Eat whatever you want. Some of us simply choose not to consume more of the obesity-creating, Monsanto-backed, government-subsidized corn garbage than absolutely necessary. You want to partake? Go right ahead.

[emcon5]

There is nothing wrong with HFCS, it is perfectly healthy, just ask the corn industry, they wouldn't lie to you: High Fructose Corn Syrup Health and Diet Facts | SweetSurprise.com

I do think it is amusing that they say "in Moderation", which is really difficult. That crap is in everything.

[campbellcj]

One thing we noticed wile traveling abroad is that candy and drinks made with actual sugar taste better than the same product with HFCS. Sugar-sweetened M&M's were obviously superior.

[emcon5]

Originally Posted by campbellcj

One thing we noticed wile traveling abroad is that candy and drinks made with actual sugar taste better than the same product with HFCS. Sugar-sweetened M&M's were obviously superior.

Yep, find yourself a bottle of Mexican coke, the difference is remarkable.

[88-diamondblue]

Try the throwback Pepsi, Mt Dew and Dr. Pepper. I drink only diet soda, which I have cut back significantly on, and the throw backs with cane and beet sugar are very good. Damn something else to have to say no to. It is the way I remember regular soda to taste. Also Mexican Coke uses sugar as well for sweetener and comes in glass bottles.

Try to use things with as little hfcs as possible!

[onlycafe]

Originally Posted by sammyg2

Uh oh, did I miss a report from the liberal media telling me I shouldn't eat HFCS?

eat as you like, i would like to have a choice as to whether or not to have it in many of my foods when real sugar could be used instead , and was , at least until that cheap crappy hfcs came along.
i am not against higher profits , i am against crappy food.
another thing , i don't like it as ethanol in my gas tank either.
don't get me wrong , i like corn on the cob , popcorn , grits , or a glass of corn whiskey. corn tortillas too.



i like bullseye. sometimes i am too lazy to make my own sauce and need some in a quick hurry.
i have been using ken's steakhouse brand too. dinosaur is another one free of hfcs. there aren't that many to choose from unless you don't care what they're made from.
i try to buy a gallon size when i can but not all places offer them in that amount.

[Shaun @ Tru6]

I got some Famous Dave's Original Recipe, look at the label, sure enough, that's the first ingredient. Original recipe?

I wrote to them saying I won't be buying their product any more, that there are better alternatives to HFCS-based "original recipe" BBQ sauces.

[DanielDudley]

Originally Posted by sammyg2

Uh oh, did I miss a report from the liberal media telling me I shouldn't eat HFCS? That's not fair, I didn't know!
If they're going to do all my thinking for me and dictate everything i can and can't eat, at least you'd think they could get better at making sure i see the newscast!

Hopefully they won't put me in liberal jail or something

Big cause of diabetes Sam. Doesn't process in your body like regular sugar, basicly dumps into your system all at once, and is unregulatable by your body.

This one isn't a libbie thing. More like a nutrition thing. Very bad, and for some people like poison. Consume enough of it, and you become one of those people.

[Neilk]

Originally Posted by Shaun 84 Targa

I got some Famous Dave's Original Recipe, look at the label, sure enough, that's the first ingredient. Original recipe?

I wrote to them saying I won't be buying their product any more, that there are better alternatives to HFCS-based "original recipe" BBQ sauces.

I think that is the worst thing about HFCS foods, or perhaps processed food in general. Why are sugars the FIRST ingredient? That can't be how the original recipes were made?

Anyone admit to watching Desperate Housewives with their SO? If so did you catch Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution. It's kind of sick and sad? He goes into a school in West Virginia to revamp their cafeteria and the kids are eating pizza for breakfast and chicken nuggets for lunch. Everything is completely processed. No wonder so many kids are obese today.

[Tobra]

Originally Posted by DanielDudley

Big cause of diabetes Sam. Doesn't process in your body like regular sugar, basicly dumps into your system all at once, and is unregulatable by your body.

This one isn't a libbie thing. More like a nutrition thing. Very bad, and for some people like poison. Consume enough of it, and you become one of those people.

This. I could probably find you a dozen studies linking the rise of HFCS and diabetes.

Soda pop with real sugar does taste better, I don't drink a lot of it, and did not think it would matter, but it does. A lot of BBQ sauce is pretty sweet, I like tangy myself. If you ever see Stubb's sauce, try it out.

[Porsche-O-Phile]

Do you have any friends from overseas? American cuisine in general is universally thought of to be overly sweetened, gloppy goop. There's a reason for it. We have been conditioned in this country to accept overly syrupy sweetened glop as "food".

HFCS is terrible for you in the kinds of quantities the average person takes in. I go out of my way to avoid it. As has been said above, there are lots of studies conclusively linking HFCS to diabetes, obesity, etc. Sure, you can always say "in moderation", but frankly it's something if eliminated from one's diet entirely wouldn't leave them missing it much. It's just crap filler/sweetener pushed by companies like Monsanto onto a stupid public-at-large (and yes, that's a deliberate pun on the word "large").

Start checking your ingredients labels - there's a reason they're there.

[cbush]

I totally agree that one should limit the amount of sugar they eat. If you buy processed foods read the lables so you know what you are eating. Nothng new there! That doesn't make the food companies the bad guys- they sell what people want.

And while I don't eat a lot of sweets or sugar, you can keep your European "desserts". By and large they taste like sawdust, and are very high in fat. I prefer my southern pecan pie -with HFCS of course!

[Shaun @ Tru6]

Chuck, I think part of the issue is that kids grow up on diet of processed junk food supplied by their schools because it's cheap, easy (open and heat) and tasty. Who wants to pay taxes for schools to make meals like we had in the 70s? No one. Schools use lowest common denominator food loaded with salt, soy and processed sugar because it's cheap and "tastes good." So while they learn good nutrition, they're fed crap that is directly responsible for the large increase in type II diabetes.

We save money feeding kids junk and spend money providing health care they should never need.