The fight against High Fructose Corn Syrup - Tiki Drinks and Food

TG The Gnomon Member MD-DC-VA Joined: May 01, 2007 Posts: 1293	TG The Gnomon Posted posted on Sat, Dec 25, 2010 7:52 AM It's been a long war against HFCS, which we have been losing for several decades. I "officially" complained about it in the '60s when Coke dropped sugar. I basically stopped drinking Coke back then except occasionally. Whenever I was tempted to try it again, I was immediately reminded why I stopped buying it in the first place. Pepsi followed suit as did all the others. Their rationale was that Coke had made the switch and people were still buying it and it was very much cheaper to use HFCS, so everyone did. That's when I basically gave up any kind of soda/pop drinks. Writing letters back then meant something, but had no effect on the soda/pop manyfacturers. New throwback beverages with sugar also suck, I'm guessing so they can show the public that the use of sugar is not an improvement, so the "sugar theory" must be a myth and there must be nothing really wrong with HFCS. Of course, the throwbacks never used the same formulae as before, so the manufacturers' throwback campaigns are, obviously, not designed to be appealing to customers but rather to make them glad they now have HFCS. When the soda/pop companies got away with the change, everyone else who was manufacturing products with sugar began to switch to HFCS to boost profits. Probably the only way to stop them now is to conduct a nationwide/worldwide boycott campaign by consumers to stop buying products with HFCS, which is a huge task and one that seems very unlikely that we can accomplish unless sugar becomes dirt cheap and HFCS becomes expensive, in which case the companies would switch back on their own. Customers have been pissed since the '60s about it and have had no success in trying to get the matter rectified. I suppose shoving whatever they want up our asses could be called, "rectifying" (probably should be spelled "rectalfying". The throwback drinks are just a ploy to show us why our desire for the old formulae is "unfounded" and we should be happy with whatever they feed us. If you come up with a viable plan, I'm in. 8) I guess it's common knowledge that my native English has gone down the tubes. [ Edited by: The Gnomon 2010-12-26 17:36 ]

It's been a long war against HFCS, which we have been losing for several decades. I "officially" complained about it in the '60s when Coke dropped sugar. I basically stopped drinking Coke back then except occasionally. Whenever I was tempted to try it again, I was immediately reminded why I stopped buying it in the first place. Pepsi followed suit as did all the others. Their rationale was that Coke had made the switch and people were still buying it and it was very much cheaper to use HFCS, so everyone did. That's when I basically gave up any kind of soda/pop drinks. Writing letters back then meant something, but had no effect on the soda/pop manyfacturers.

New throwback beverages with sugar also suck, I'm guessing so they can show the public that the use of sugar is not an improvement, so the "sugar theory" must be a myth and there must be nothing really wrong with HFCS. Of course, the throwbacks never used the same formulae as before, so the manufacturers' throwback campaigns are, obviously, not designed to be appealing to customers but rather to make them glad they now have HFCS.

When the soda/pop companies got away with the change, everyone else who was manufacturing products with sugar began to switch to HFCS to boost profits. Probably the only way to stop them now is to conduct a nationwide/worldwide boycott campaign by consumers to stop buying products with HFCS, which is a huge task and one that seems very unlikely that we can accomplish unless sugar becomes dirt cheap and HFCS becomes expensive, in which case the companies would switch back on their own.

Customers have been pissed since the '60s about it and have had no success in trying to get the matter rectified. I suppose shoving whatever they want up our asses could be called, "rectifying" (probably should be spelled "rectalfying".
The throwback drinks are just a ploy to show us why our desire for the old formulae is "unfounded" and we should be happy with whatever they feed us. If you come up with a viable plan, I'm in. 8)

I guess it's common knowledge that my native English has gone down the tubes.

[ Edited by: The Gnomon 2010-12-26 17:36 ]

Post #570237 by The Gnomon on Sat, Dec 25, 2010 7:52 AM