[LMB] Sees Candy (wat OT: Chocolate Alert)

[Azalais Aranxta]

On Wed, 25 Apr 2007, Mark Allums wrote:

> Azalais Aranxta wrote:
> > Corn syrup is only called for in the old fashioned recipes for
> > certain *kinds* of candy--and this is not high-fructose corn
> > syrup, which is what See's uses, it is regular Karo-type corn
> > syrup.  Corn syrup is an American product.  It is NOT called for
> > in any European chocolate bonbon recipes.
>
> I will concede that the high-fructose sweetener is an ADM conspiracy,
> but not that corn syrup in general is never used *in real candy*.  Corn
> sweetener is of course used in the US because cane sugar is artificially
> kept sky-high in price,  You may blame Congress and ADM for that.

Thanks for the permission, I didn't know I needed it!

> However, corn syrup would be used in many kinds of candy, anyway,
> regardless.  Perhaps not in chocolate bonbons.

I never said it wasn't used in "many kinds of candy".  I said it
shouldn't be in the kind of candy See's sells, which is chocolate
bonbons of various kinds.  There are many kinds of candy, mostly
of American origin, that use regular corn syrup.  But I don't
care about that, because I don't eat that kind of candy, being as
how it makes me sick, and I don't expect to be able to eat that
kind of candy.

I do eat chocolate truffles.  But when there's a box of See's
around the only ones that are safe for me are the ones that are
chocolate poured over nuts.  The fondant all has corn syrup in
it, and it shouldn't.

~malfoy :)

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