I understand, Anne. I simply disagree with the premise that ketchup is inherently sweet or needs to be. Makers of processed foods add sweetener to everything for one reason -- sweet is addictive.
I would also argue that taking the sugar out of ketchup is like taking the sugar out of chocolate. Chocolate is quite amazing without sweetener. I'm with you 100% on fat-free anything and half and half. Give me heavy cream (grass-fed)! Yum! With abandon, Patrick On Monday, November 25, 2013 10:30:30 AM UTC-7, Anne Paulson wrote: > > I'm not arguing about whether you should like sweet things. You should > like what you like. I'm just saying that if you take ketchup, a > condiment whose main flavor is sweet, and you remove all the sugar, > you have something else other than ketchup. It might be something > delicious, but it's not ketchup. > > (Also, fat-free half & half: Half what, and half what? It's a mystery to > me.) > > On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 9:18 AM, Deacon Patrick > <lamon...@mac.com<javascript:>> > wrote: > > Anne, > > > > Actually, once our family stopped eating sugar (and other sweeteners) > all > > the time in most everything (seriously, look at the labels. If it's > > processed, it has some form of sugar in it, for starters), the natural > > flavors of real food wake up and are far more lively. Ketchup is a > sauce, > > and has no need for sweetener. > > > > With abandon, > > Patrick > > > > > > On Monday, November 25, 2013 10:10:10 AM UTC-7, Anne Paulson wrote: > >> > >> I'm trying to understand what you want in the flavor here, Hugh. I can > >> understand trying to avoid high fructose corn syrup, and I also can > >> understand dialing down the sugar somewhat, but isn't trying to have > >> unsweetened ketchup like having a chocolate bar without chocolate? > >> Ketchup is a fruit butter, so it's flavored with sugar (and a lot of > >> it) and vinegar (and a lot of it) to make it sweet and sour. If you > >> take out the sugar, you have sour. Sour is good, but in what way would > >> it be like ketchup? > >> > >> On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 3:11 PM, hsmitham <hughs...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > Patrick, > >> > > >> > Don't know if you have Trader Joe's out there but they sell an > organic > >> > ketchup that has 2 grams of sugar per table spoon like Deacon I'd > like > >> > none. > >> > >> -- > >> -- Anne Paulson > >> > >> It isn't a contest. Enjoy the ride. > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups > > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an > > email to rbw-owners-bun...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. > > To post to this group, send email to > > rbw-owne...@googlegroups.com<javascript:>. > > > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > > -- > -- Anne Paulson > > It isn't a contest. Enjoy the ride. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
