Re: 100 Pounds of Food/Year From a 12 Square Foot Plot?

"Billy" <wildbilly@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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> You have McDonalds, and Burger King but you don't have high fructose
> corn syrup? Do your packaging laws require ingredients to be listed?

ah you've got me there!

i said corn syrup is rare (not "nonexistent" :-) you would most likely
find 
it in im****ted processed things from time to time i think, but i can't 
comment because i don't buy that sort of thing much - i think it's in 
nutella for example, is it not?

processed australian food has cane sugar in it, as a rule (i buy as
locally 
as is reasonable, so i do know that! ... is this a bad time to confess
i've 
been known to buy french mustard & french jam? ;-)

i believe that fast food companies are obliged to supply a nutritional 
breakdown on their products (or in the store?), but i'm really not sure if

that means the classic ingredients list by pro****tion _as well_. i have no

idea about this because we never go to mcdonalds ever, & only to hungry 
jack's (as burger king is called) pretty rarely. because i feel quietly 
confident that hungry jack's is probably pretty much filth, i've never 
bothered to find out the exact contents (i just don't want to know ;-)

i'm under the impression that big fast-food enterprises tend to use local 
ingredients for most of their stuff (you couldn't possibly justify
im****ting 
buns, lettuce, meat, etc for example) but when it comes to that scary 
snot-like substance they make thickshakes out of, i just don't know.

we don't grow much corn here at all, commercially. that which is grown is 
either sold fresh or canned or frozen afaik. in the north-east, there is A

LOT of sugar cane grown. the whole ethanol thing was going to revolve
around 
sugar cane here, rather than corn. (now that everyone worldwide is shocked

at the really quite bad idea of giving up food-land to make bio-fuels 
instead, i am not sure what is happening there, but that wasn't your 
question anyway.)
kylie