Food

[meleah]

So lately people wandering into my house newly in from Oz have been a bit 'oh.. you've gone organic crazy'. To which I respond generally that American food terrifies me. Which isn't quite true. American food is both crazily wondrously fatty and delicious in terms of local delicacies and pretty much the same as Oz, except somewhat blander, which is

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[meleah]

HFC is the sugar isolated from corn - so not what we would normally think of as sugar (glucose) but fructose instead. Its existence is basically the result of the corn lobby. The big three crops in the world are corn, soy and wheat. Any processed food with added fats is probably the result of soy. Anything with sugar is corn, in the form of high fructose corn syrup. If you drink softdrinks, from coke all the way through, you're drinking high fructose corn syrup, even in Oz (unless its passover in NY, in which case one can buy special sugar-coke, as there's some weird dietary restriction about corn during passover). Here, its taken to such ridiculous extremes that when one gets 'jelly' (jam) for putting on one's toast, a quick scan of the ingredients will determine that there is no fruit involved, instead its simply high fructose corn syrup with some flavouring. And so on. One becomes a compulsive label reader after a few instances of finding HFC hiding in what you thought was food.

Cream is generally cream, I believe - I don't use it so haven't encountered it. Non-dairy creamer is the bane of my existence however - as far as I can figure out, its just white powder calculated to turn your coffee the color it would be if one had added milk, but with none of the flavour. My deep suspicion of it forces me to not drink the dishwater coffee when anywhere but NYC (which has milk and lots of good coffee.. relatively anyway).