That is just bizarre -- the hot peppers in the sweet and sour chicken is particularly weird to me. My mother has similar complaints about modern food. She loves potatoes in anything, but the last time we went to the nice coffee shop that grows its vegetables in back of its building and has lots of vegan options, I had to eat her potato soup because they had put Tabasco in it. Really a lot of Tabasco. It's okay to do that, but it's really not okay to then advertise it as creamy potato and chive soup. Calling it creamy when it has no cream is also dicey, but at least that warns one to check. It didn't say spicy or piquant or anything.
I am sure profit is well entangled in the adding of these ingredients to everything in sight. At least whey is probably harmless to people who aren't allergic to dairy, and it does increase protein content -- which is a matter of adding verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and non-nutritious narrative much of the time, admittedly. But HFCS is horrible all around.
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Date: 2014-12-24 07:49 pm (UTC)I am sure profit is well entangled in the adding of these ingredients to everything in sight. At least whey is probably harmless to people who aren't allergic to dairy, and it does increase protein content -- which is a matter of adding verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and non-nutritious narrative much of the time, admittedly. But HFCS is horrible all around.
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