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

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> "Billy" <wildbilly@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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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?
Oh god, have we screwed that up too? Nutella was originally from France, 
I think. The German counterpart is Nussnugat. We have already screwed up 
croissants and turned them into bread crescents.
> 
> 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? ;-)
Hard to beat Bonne Mamam and real Dijon mustard can knock your nose off 
and bring tears to your eyes. Both are good eats ;-))
> 
> 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 ;-)
McDonads in Germany is better than the stomach wadding that they fob off 
on us here. Tasted like real meat but then again it was Germany. Classic 
American taste is no taste at all. Hold over from Puritan times I think. 
If it tasted good or pleased the flesh, it must be sinful because it 
distracts from our spiritual mission on Earth, which is to burn and kill 
the witches and heathen.
> 
> 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.
Don't even ask about their secret sauces:-(
> 
> 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
Thanks for leaving the question, I'd forgotten that I had asked one. 
Here, in 'Merica, prepared foods usually list their ingredients in order 
of quantity from greatest to least. Water, and corn syrup are often 
among the first ingredients.

If you forget to answer it's OK. I'll probably forget again that I 
asked;-)

g'day
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