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Re:Silicon Valley elites spending $60 for less than 3 gallon... by tootie on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @11:11AM (#16062158)
I once acquired a bag of sugar that branded itself as "Carbon-free". No joke. I'm not sure how it stayed solid.
Re:Silicon Valley elites spending $60 for less than 3 gallon... by pc86 on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @11:03AM (#16062079)
Re:Silicon Valley elites spending $60 for less than 3 gallon... by autokad on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @11:33AM (#16062381)
as people mentioned below, theres 'sea salt'.

i like how they are calling sugar "cane sugar", as if the sugar everyone else is using is not coming from sugarcane.

Re:Silicon Valley elites spending $60 for less than 3 gallon... by pmlnr on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @11:45AM (#16062535)
"cane sugar" is cane sugar, because sugar can come from a few sources, including cane and beet. Most of the white sugar you know is either from cane or beet and it's generally glucose. Another sugar, fructose, is fruit sugar, or grape sugar, which is dextrose - they are all "sugar".

Indicating the (near) exact type of sugar is not a bad idea.

Re:Silicon Valley elites spending $60 for less than 3 gallon... by unclenoriega on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @09:29PM (#16067499)
Cane or beet sugar is sucrose, not glucose (although glucose is a constituent of sucrose.)
Re:Silicon Valley elites spending $60 for less than 3 gallon... by patmcc on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @11:40AM (#16062473)
Sugar beets account for about 20% of sugar production, so it's not unlikely you've had non-cane sugar. Still no real reason to label it as cane sugar though.
Re:Silicon Valley elites spending $60 for less than 3 gallon... by aaxa on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @11:41AM (#16062487)
It's not. A lot of sugar comes from sugar beets
Re:Silicon Valley elites spending $60 for less than 3 gallon... by addicted on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @11:40AM (#16062470)
The vast majority of sugar in the US at least is from corn.
Re:Silicon Valley elites spending $60 for less than 3 gallon... by unclenoriega on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @09:30PM (#16067508)
While high-fructose corn syrup is a widely-used sweetener in the US, I don't think most people would call it sugar.