If I crave it, I’ll drink it. My body tells me what it wants. I might analyze it, let it go… and if it comes back up, go grab a fucken soda pop. I had one a couple days ago…before that though, it had to have been at least 6 months. A yummy natural root beer with a little vanilla ice cream in it…mmm, that’s a whole other story.
Summer = Root Beer Floats mmm *drooling*
=)

Ah nostalgia…. And the ability to make a buck!!! Costco gets it….

Ah well, I drink Diet Coke (yay, aspertame!) anyway.

: )

I must say, after all that, that food made with sucrose tastes so much better than HFCS.

Also, to Wemily,
“A chicken McNugget also contains tertiary butylhydroquinone (TBHQ) which is an antioxidant derived from petroleum….which is also a form of butane. GROSS!”
t-butyl hydroquinone is nothing like butane, chemically or structurally. It is a derivative of hydroquinone, (a phenol with a -OH group in the para position), substituted with tert-butyl group, meta to one hydroxy group, ortho to the other.

i bought some jars of baby food for training my dog, and do you know what it contains? CORN starch.

I hope you do get a publisher.

On sugar, I am not a fan. It does undesirable things to my body and teeth.

I remember watching sesame street when I was little, and seeing how much sugar went into coke, I was aghast, even then, before I became a non-sugar person. I do think that high fructose corn syrup is much worse though.

I never liked coke, taste or smell;

I am one of those people who steers away from anything processed. I love when food is in its natural state. (except for the fact that I drink decaf coffee/espresso, which is not so great except for the taste)

I almost get a “sugar” high, when I eat too much fruit, as it has natural sugar in it.

I need a publisher, a good editor, and a few more smart, ready, writey friends. Always!

Email sent (and edited out of your above comment for security and smap resistence)

s.

Forgive me for being off topic but –

I don’t think I have your current email and I wanted to send you info on a publisher I know (and you might know from back in the punk rock days) in SF about an urgent need for someone with Adobe Illustrator talent to help her company meet a book deadline in San Francisco.

If you know of someone who would embrace the work , could you email your email to me as soon as possible: ——–no such luck smap crawlers———–

- I’d really like to help her out and it could be a good in for a cool job for the right freelancer.

She’s also someone I’d love you to discuss your PUNK book with. :)

Elaine

Too bad sugar in general is “bad” for you. Especially the digestion… I’ve learned more than I wanted to know about this lately.

Sugar is a recent innovation to the human diet. It was only with industrialization that it became cheap enough for consumption by all classes. Not only that, it was so cheap that factory workers were fed quickie tea-breaks and then, bam! back to work for those long, long days. How economical for those shrewd barons of industry! Rural life was accustomed to seeing breakfast comprised highly of vegetables, and then bread and jam came around the bend. No surprise, we have a massive health decline and larger waistbands. Fat and sugar, the cheap, quickie drive-thru genius for a fast-paced society…

i just finished reading “The Omnivore’s Dilemma” where the author (Micheal Pollan) talks all about this sort of thing. He found the statistic that an average American consumes 66 pounds of HFCS a year on top of all the “real” sugar. During the switch-over from cane sugar to HFCS in sodas, Americans began to increase their consumption of sodas thanks to the brilliant idea of supersizing, thus their intake of processed corn was increased.

HFCS is everywhere, in addition to sodas you can find it in your Ketchup, mustard, cereals, crackers, breads ,and candies… this past year i’ve been more aware of what i eat and things that i used to buy, like my stoned wheat thins, i notice contained HFCS and partially hydrogenated oils. bummer……my goldfish crackers though, escaped these ingredients..hurray!

Pollan also talks about that processed corn is also in other household objects like shampoos, vitamins, soaps, cleaning supplies etc….

he believes that we are what we eat,which makes Americans walking processed corn.

on another topic, Pollan informs us that a chicken-mcnugget has 38 ingredients, and at least 13 of those are derived from corn….some of these ingredients include; the corn-fed chicken, modified cornstarch, dextrose, lecithin, yellow corn flour, cornstarch, partially hydrogenated corn oil, and citric acid. A chicken McNugget also contains tertiary butylhydroquinone (TBHQ) which is an antioxidant derived from petroleum….which is also a form of butane. GROSS!

i try to eat foods in which i can pronounce the ingredients thank you very much.

anyways, the food industry, owned by big corporate powers care mostly about making a buck….even if it’s causing people to become more unhealthy. the book also dives into the issue of corn-fed vs grass-fed animals, and how the grass-fed animal meat is much more healthier than the other. but the majority of meet in the markets come from corn-fed animal farms….same thing goes for dairy products….

and as sunshine has already pointed out, processed corn has helped the obesity problem of our country….oh dear…

it’s an interesting book….