Gee, I think I see a commercial here... *"Steve, have a Snickers Bar... When you get hungry you act like Kathleen Sebelius..." *
Let the cavemen have their own Ketchup... Heinz is the only ketchup for my fries... BB On Monday, November 25, 2013 4:58:38 PM UTC-5, Steve Palincsar wrote: > > On 11/25/2013 04:26 PM, Peter Morgano wrote: > > I just ate a snickers bar to see if it tasted right, yup it was > delicious. ;-) > > > I don't think there's a federal standard of identity for "snickers bar" > and I doubt there's a version made without sugar or other nutritive > carbohydrate sweetener... > > On Nov 25, 2013 4:24 PM, "Steve Palincsar" <pali...@his.com <javascript:>> > wrote: > >> On 11/25/2013 04:13 PM, Anne Paulson wrote: >> >> What do you think a "nutritive carbohydrate sweetener" is? It's *sugar*! >> >> >> Sugar is a nutritive carbohydrate sweetener, but it is not the only one. >> Others include include glucose, fructose, corn syrup, high fructose corn >> syrup, and sugar alcohols (e.g., sorbitol, mannitol, and xylitol), >> according to the Britannica. >> >> One or any combination of two or more of the following safe and suitable >> ingredients in each of the following categories is added to the tomato >> ingredients specified in paragraph (a)(1) of this section: >> >> (i) Vinegars. >> >> (ii) Nutritive carbohydrate sweeteners. Such sweeteners if defined in >> part 168 of this chapter shall be as defined therein. >> >> (iii) Spices, flavoring, onions, or garlic. >> >> >> Combing the verbiage with a fine-tooth comb I conclude that per the >> standard, "nutritive carbohydrate sweetener" is in fact a required >> ingredient. >> >> >> You may say that one can leave out the sugar, and it will still legally >> qualify as ketchup. Apparently so, but it is not going to taste like >> ketchup. >> >> >> AFAIK federal standards of identity prescribe what must be in a product, >> but not what it is supposed to taste like. >> >> > -- 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.
