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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
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.
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
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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
They do put pepper on their day glo mushy peas. I’ve seen it with my own eyes.
There’s people other than you and the Yanks
Largest people on earth. Hoorah!
BIGLY
You joke but today Curries are one of the most popular takeaway options in the UK. Only took us til after decolonisation.
Some of them were invented in the UK. Unheard of in India
As a second gen Indian in the UK, so much of my family’s dishes are based on sauces with tomatoes and chilli, many of them have potato. But none of these are actually native to India, these would have been brought over after the colonialisation of the Americas.
He’s only really angry in the US shows though.
And is that Bill Burr?
Yeah, it’s Bill Burr.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
“cheese”
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.
Leave our beige food in a brown sauce with overcooked veg alone.
don’t worry this has never not been my plan 😸
They used them for tea
I vaguely remember some TIL post awhile back that essentially blamed some aristocrat with a sensitive stomach for the meme version of traditional British cuisine, under the auspices of WWII rationing. He apparently recommended cutting spice and overcooking veg both for “health” and import cost/availability reasons during wartime rationing, and this got swept up in the unified national “keep calm and carry on” wartime rhetoric as quintessentially British. Supposedly prior to the war, traditional cuisines in the isles generally were more flavorful and varied
so going backwards isn’t just a new fascination for Brits
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.”.
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.
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.
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.
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.
To that I say, you must not have heard of Wisconsin.
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.
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.
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’ve been to the UK and I found out this stereotype/meme is kinda true…
Some foods are a little bland.
This is outrageous, it’s unfair. How can you have tasty spices and not use them in your cuisine?
