I would like to state herein my personal conviction that the very best confection ever produced in modern America has never equalled the very worst confection ever produced in the U.K.
For one thing, when sugar became too expensive for food manufacturers, most of them substituted high fructose corn syrup in almost everything, which had the dual honor of making all our food taste like crap and making an enormous amount of unsuspecting Americans allergic to corn products.
It's so pathetic that when Annie and I discovered they were selling Picadelli biscuits on a back shelf of the local Circle K convenience stores, we bought up almost every package to hoard in the cupboard. Just...sad.
Bizarro7@aol.com wrote:
I would like to state herein my personal conviction that the very best confection ever produced in modern America has never equalled the very worst confection ever produced in the U.K.
Have you ever tasted peanut patties? Flat, pink, sugary discs chock full of those cheap peanuts? I've only once managed to find them outside of Texas and New Mexico, but those things are Heaven on Earth. If I weren't allergic to peanuts, I'd probably spend far too much money on having cases of them shipped from Texas. Vila would smuggle them onto the Liberator and then hide them somewhere, so as not to have to share them.
Agree totally about the nastiness of high fructose corn syrup, which can cause a whole range of problems for diabetics and the overweight, besides the ones you mentioned.
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Leah wrote:
I would like to state herein my personal conviction that the very best confection ever produced in modern America has never equalled the very worst confection ever produced in the U.K.
Britain: the Land of Lard.
You're quite right. American confectionery is rubbish.
Una
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