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This meme brought to you by people who think high fructose corn syrup is an ingredient
Contrary to popular belief, in terms of health, high-fructose corn syrup is not really worse for you than sugar. It’s very unhealthy, of course, but that’s because it’s sweet, not because of its chemical properties.
That being said, in many things (such as soda), people prefer the taste of sugar over high fructose corn syrup.
YOUS PUT IT IN YOUR FECKIN BREAD
Just checked now. The loaf of sliced bread in my pantry does not contain high fructose corn syrup.
I guarantee if I look up the biggest selling sliced bread in the US, it’s got HFCS in it, and I also guarantee you’d say, yeah well nobody eats that
😂
Try making sure what you’re saying is correct before confidently talking out of your ass:
This is the nutrition label for Wonder Bread, the epitome of trashy American sandwich bread. It does not contain high fructose corn syrup. What it does contain, however, is sugar. As I said, high fructose corn syrup is not worse than sugar anyway, and all bread has sugar in it because it’s necessary for the yeast to rise. American-style sliced sandwich bread does tend to be sweeter than the round sort, but that’s not a high fructose corn syrup problem. Even if it did have high fructose corn syrup, that literally wouldn’t change anything about its health value.
Again, high fructose corn syrup is not worse than sugar. If every product in the world that uses sugar were reformulated to use an equivalent amount of high fructose corn syrup, health-wise nothing would change (but the flavour may be different). Decrying high fructose corn syrup but being okay with sugar is just ignorance of science, full stop.
If corn were as cheap everywhere else around the world as it is in America, literally every country would have processed foods containing high fructose corn syrup instead of sugar, because it is basically completely the same.
Edit: And before you make a comment talking about the length of the ingredients list, it’s partially because American food labelling laws are way stricter than elsewhere in the world, requiring manufacturers to label far more ingredients and with far more detail. Sliced sandwich bread sold elsewhere is probably made of exactly the same stuff, but the manufacturer probably just isn’t legally required to tell you about it.
Weird. Every single link I look at says it’s one of the key ingredients
Example with photo of label
The recipe probably changes from time to time.
What’s bad about corn syrup is how fucking cheap it is (subsidized to hell or not). So they put it in way more things, keep us all addicted to sweet stuff and rake in profits at the same time.
Also see soy in everything (my wife is allergic so I’m biased, but it’s really nuts how many things (again, bread?) it’s in).
Contrary to popular belief, it’s not that we think that corn sirup is worse, its that we KNOW yall use truckloads of it on everything <3 :)
Industry uses it. The only time most anyone uses corn syrup is for pecan pie which is admittedly gross
Dietary fructose is worse for you than sucrose. Or glucose
Process sugar is almost as bad for you as Corn syrup.
There is no such thing. Sugar is sugar, and it is exactly as bad for you as corn syrup. Sugar is either in short chains (where we call it “sugar”) or in long chains (in which case it is called “starch”)
molasses?
The sweetness from molasses comes from the sugar contained inside it.
I agree too much sugar in any way is bad for you.
Unrefined brown sugar undergoes less processing than white sugar, allowing it to retain some of its molasses content and natural brown color. Molasses is what you get before the refinement and crystallization with animal bones, then you get the processed white sugar. You can turn white sugar back to brown sugar by adding molasses. Neither is healthy in large amounts. Brown sugar gas slightly more minerals.
Corn syrup is easier to consume.
Disolve equal quantities of sugar and corn syrup in a drink. You will get sated of the sugar version faster than then corn syrup version.
In the same vein, putting highly transformed industrial sweets in your homemade bakery to make it cooler.
There’s people other than you and the Yanks
ur tragically misinformed if u think individuals think any such thing rather than the use of cheap sweeteners being a decision made by corporate interest
Thinks Brits don’t use spices
Calls them tragically misinformed
😂
They do put pepper on their day glo mushy peas. I’ve seen it with my own eyes.
wasn’t talking to brits in this comment, this is a common sentiment from many people groups, cheers!
Glad you can still type with your gigantic sausage fingers, old bean
Largest people on earth. Hoorah!
BIGLY
He’s only really angry in the US shows though.
And is that Bill Burr?
Yeah, it’s Bill Burr.
Its funny how people assume colonization benefitted all Brits equally, and spices, tea (& riches) weren’t hoarded by royalty and the gentry.
How the hell do you think the East India Company got so rich? It wasn’t by selling it to… shudder … normal and… wretching… poor people. They can stick to their traditional true British spice, Salt & vinegar! /s
But you’d think some of the rich people recipes would make their way to what’s now known as British cuisine.
Recipes, to be used with which spices, huh? If they won’t use them they might as well not exist. Now it’s cheaper but the general population didn’t use them so it doesn’t really count.
If rich Brits actually used spices, then what did they use them in? Where did those recipes that use spices go?
If they didn’t actually use spices, then what did they do with them? Just use them as currency?
Oh Yeah! Like they’d earn all the money and they’d spend it by paying wages & share what they imported with common folk. It’ll all trickle down to the rest of us… eventually, right? /s
What are you talking about? I’m saying some fancy food recipes which were used only by the rich should not be lost to time. Has nothing to do with what you’re saying.
Ok being serious then, the meme (& most people) refer to working class British dishes like fish & chips, beans on toast, bangers and mash which don’t have a lot of spice used in them. Many of them were probably invented, adapted & popularized by working class people during post world war 2 rationing.
I’m sure authentic British recipes do contain “rich people” food, but memes and pejoratives about their cuisine ignores or doesn’t know about such food.
Its like a meme mentioning American food as burgers & gravy, while pedants would argue Mexican food is also American. Ignoring why North Americans (mostly poor people) eat fast food and the socio-economic factors that forces them to eat low nutrition food.
Also, trickle down economy does work and has always worked - it’s just that the mega rich are subhuman, so everything trickles down to them :P
ooh valuable insight into how this came to be, thank u for helping me challenge my heretofore unquestioned assumptions :)
We invented one of the world’s most popular cheese, Cheddar, which is actually named after an English village. Also our national dish is Chicken Tikka Masala. I dare you to say we don’t use spices. We invented several varieties of spiced sausage, spiced cakes and fruit bread, even some kinds of spices rum.
Don’t get me wrong, lots of British cuisine is lackluster for sure, and I don’t think we can compete with the likes of Thailand or Italy. That doesn’t apply to everything we do though, and some of our deserts and cheeses are top tier. Thailand is literally known for diplomacy through food as well, so hardly a fair comparison.
Chicken Tikka Masala uses waaaay fewer spices than traditional Indian food. It’s the thing people who don’t like Indian food order in Indian restaurants.
It doesn’t actually have less spices as such, it has less chilli and more cream so that it’s less hot. Korma which is legitimately Persian and from the indian subcontinent is more mild than Chicken Tikka Masala. Likewise Makhani and Hydrabaddi are Indian dishes with a comparable amount of cream and hotness. Don’t get me wrong, it’s definitely not a hot curry, but it’s not weaker than some of the things coming from India or Pakistan.
fuck. I had a weird allergic reaction the last time I got indian and I haven’t gone back because I don’t take risks with allergies. I miss my malai kofta.
You could always learn to make it yourself
I have. I need to identify the spice I am allergic to before trying it again. It was hospital bad. Fun fact, allergy tests at allergy doctors don’t have that specificity.
Yeah fairs. Have they given you an epipen or something for next time?
No, because the MDs refused to recognize that the allergic reation came from food. I had to literally steal one. USA! USA!
How do you know it’s from food?
Anglo-Indian cuisine is a product of the British colonization of India and the fusion of British and Indian culinary traditions. This unique blending of flavors and techniques creates a cuisine that is both savory and flavorful, while remaining distinct from traditional Indian or British dishes.
Americans visited the UK during WW2’s rationing and never updated their stereotypes.
A lot of stereotypes sure, but this one is a valid one. Who the fuck eats beans on toast….?
Bold talk from the nation that eats cheese from a spray can.
Here in America we eat freedom cheese, meaning cooperations are free to add whatever they want to our foods unlike in the EU, where certain chemicals are not allowed in your foods. Yay for obesity. We have Pink Slime and chemically sprayed potatoes to prevent black spots on our McDonald’s Freedom Fries.
Don’t be mad we actually make better cheddar than the UK.
Also, not gonna lie, cheezwhiz has its place. It’s just not the height of culinary cuisine.
Ha! Don’t make me spit out my tea. Your cheddar is cheese-flavored plastic in comparison.
Hey now some of us grew up on Pasteurized Prepared Cheese Product that can’t really be called cheese on it’s own.
To that I say, you must not have heard of Wisconsin.
I lived in Wisconsin for a year. Most supermarkets had 3 types of cheese:
yellow, orange and mixed. They all tasted the same.What you call cheese cant be sold under the label “cheese” in the UK or the EU, due to it being so shit and lacking in actual cheese.
And what goes into beans on toast? That’s right: cumin, paprika, garlic, onion, pepper… Spices
Three bean salad with croutons, hummus on pita bread, vegetarian burritos are all technically beans on toast
Who the fuck eats peanuts in coca cola?
I am amused by the fact that the word “distinct” sounds similar to “Dis stink!”
gross colonizer language, verging on racist. don’t make jokes like this dawg. not funny.
TIL that dialects are racist?
too bad they had to keep it distinct, could have been greatness
If it’s curry it’s Indian, just like American Chinese takeout is American but still Chinese and Pizza is American but still Italian. The flavors derived from those specific cultures to spice up the bland food people were used to. Tea was mostly a Chinese tradition and the Indians stole it to trade with Britain, because it was cheaper.
True, but I would argue that American Chinese food is a distinct cuisine in its own right, just as Anglo-Indian is.
If the argument is that the British Empire didn’t incorporate seasonings and spices into its own traditional cuisine, then I’d argue that none of the European powers did. French cuisine is still undeniably French and spice-less, despite their colonialist history in Africa and the Caribbean.
I’m not going to let a country that thinks spraying more cheese on something makes it better.
Leave our beige food in a brown sauce with overcooked veg alone.
You’re not going to let a country that thinks spraying more cheese on something makes it better…what? What aren’t you going to let it do?
That’s a very good point, and will teach me for not proofreading when rewriting half a sentence twice!
I’m not going to let them mock our “cuisine”. There.
It was implied, but it’s nice to have confirmation!
Perhaps switch to xz ?
Well if you don’t going to, then definitely neither.
“cheese”
Leave our beige food in a brown sauce with overcooked veg alone.
don’t worry this has never not been my plan 😸
I remember John Oliver jokingly said on Steven Cobert that his favorite British food is a good curry.
That’s not really a joke though? There are lots of curries that were invented in the UK and the British are actually the ones that introduced curry to most of the world and the curries you get pretty much anywhere outside of South Asia are British curries or based on British curries.
That’s what Padme wants in this image macro though
Brit’s do pies though, anything in a pie then it’s British. A curry pie then there you go
Tikka Masala is a British dish.
It is the colonialism you see.
You think that’s bad, wait until you hear Americans trying to claim apple pie or pizza.
American style pizza actually has an interesting history and impact on cuisine.
Its as American as British curry is British.
Wait until you hear the Italian story
To be honest, pizza in its best known iteration originally was from Naples and parts South. When Italian-American GI’s (most were descended from immigrants from Southern Italy where they had pizza) were helping to rid Italy of Nazi’s during WWII, they were aghast that places North of Naples didn’t have pizza. These formerly pizza-free zones then started making pizza to sell to the GI’s and thus to this day you can find pizza even in places as North as around Lake Como. So pizza is more American in Northern Italy than it is Italian.
I mean, not being that popular in the place it was invented doesn’t mean Americans can claim to have invented it which is the subject at hand.
They can keep whatever that shit they do in Chicago is though. Nobody else wants credit for that.
very possible for a region to validly claim a certain iteration of a food, even if it originated elsewhere.
for example, anglo-indian food would not exist without british influence. in the same fashion, american pizza, hamburgers, american-italian beef and US “chinese food”, while not utterly distinct from their precursors, are iterations of the cuisine that would never have come about in their countries of origin.
Youre kind of making my point. My point was much more “if you think that’s bad, you should see this” as opposed to “it can’t be done.” For example, the curries from the UK are very different to anything youd get on the Indian sub-continent.
Claiming apple pie is a outrageous though.
fair enough lol
Italian pizza is pretty different than American.
British curries are very different to Indian ones. Far more different than “more cheese and bread”, like American style pizza.
Do you mean Stephen Colbert?
yep
American here, but I think a lot of Americans have not actually been to Britain and eaten their food.
I have, but I don’t actually remember the food. That must mean it was fine since I don’t remember anything being bad.
London seemed like most other large cities to me, in that there was a wide variety of food from different cuisines available. It’s not like every restaurant was all jellied eels and boiled meat.
Britain conquered the world for spices, then decided they didn’t like any of them.
Britain is a little bit autistic. Loves order. Hates sensory overload.
I can’t seem to find it, but this reminds me of a greentext that’s stuck with me for years. The gist of it is that most of British history can be summed up as sailing around the world looking for something good to eat.
Maybe this one?
That’s not the one I was thinking of, but I’m happy that you posted it as it’s pretty great.
Are you sure it’s a greentext and not this old saying “The beauty of their women and the taste of their food make brits the best sailors in the world.”.
It definitely parallels that saying but I’m almost positive it was a greentext. Though, given that I can’t find it, I suppose I could be mistaken.
They used them for tea
I’m from Portugal, who together with Spain started the so-called “Age Of Discovery” back in the late 14th century and for a long time had sugar plantations in Brasil.
Not only does the local culinary have an insane variety of cakes and sweets (I suspect that, whilst monks in convents in other countries were finding new ways to brew beer, the ones in Portugal were just inventing new desserts) but most traditional culinary dishes use one more spices that do not grow locally or at least did not originate locally (you also see a similar effect when it comes to other ingredients: for example the frequent use of tomato that originate from the Americas or Oranges that originate from China)
I also lived in both England and The Netherlands, both countries which were much more successful at trade with and conquest of the “discovered” lands than Portugal, and the local culinary tradition in both is way smaller and blander.
The problem with food traditions in the UK is that fuck all grows there due to climate. And all the cool imported stuff was traditionally very expensive, thus only accessible to the rich. Portugal has a much better climate for growing food, so back in the days you could import some seeds, plant them locally and exotic stuff became cheap and available to everyone. Brits couldn’t do that really, so exotic stuff was rare and mere mortals didn’t know about it.
I’ve been to the UK and I found out this stereotype/meme is kinda true…
Some foods are a little bland.
We’ve been completely screwed over by the supermarkets on this one. A lot of our base ingredients are now bland and tasteless. This has had a knock on effect.
Good, traditional English food is far from bland and tasteless.
Jellied eels 🤮
I was more thinking of a properly made Sheppard’s pie, or a beef roast with trimmings.
If you really love our jellied eels though… 🤷♂️
I’m fairly sure they only still exist to prank tourists.
Ah yes, the UKs equivalent of the French’s escargot (snails)
The only people who eat those are Asian tourists.
They are bad traditional English food
Well the popularity of Indian food kind of puts the lie to this. Though I suppose it makes more sense to simply switch to Indian food, rather than to try to tart up the wretched crap that passed for food in the UK before colonialism.
Hey, don’t bad mouth salt seasoning! Portugal uses plenty of it (due to using salt preservation in the old days) and i think their food is pretty damn good!
