There are a lot of foods I don't eat anymore. I happen to love chocolate. But I don't want to eat chocolate with PGPR in it, therefore I don't purchase Hershey's anymore. Is PGPR "bad" for me? Umm, no. When you were a child, you had (and ate) "wax lips" which are PGPR with some color added. It doesn't belong in my chocolate, therefore I refuse to eat it, and refuse to purchase foods with PGPR
You're weird. Chocolate originally comes in bean form; some brilliant South Americans got the idea to grind it up with sugar and water and drink it. Chocolate in solid form is a pretty damn new idea and hardly even counts as a food; it's a pretty weird concoction to be a "purist" about. Where does your platonic idea of chocolate come from?
I have a few friends that keep pretty strict kosher, and I think they're weird too. But at least I can get a handle on it because it's written in book they feel like following the rules of. I don't really understand this extreme fetishism we have for what we eat that people pull out of their anal area.
Blindly consuming anything put in front of you is weird.
Also, chocolate as a drink originated in Mexico and they didn't mix sugar with it. They mixed ground chili peppers.
So you prefer chocolate bars with >75% Cocoa, I can get that - so do I. I like the taste of pure dark chocolate more than the taste of milk chocolate, say.
So, if you were avoiding HFCS for health reasons, or taste reasons, I totally get that. But "I just dont' want it in my food, mmm'kay?" seems weird to me.
> "Blindly consuming anything put in front of you is weird."
Oh come on, now you're just taking this personally and getting rude. At no point did previous poster suggest that either you or him "blindly consume" anything put in front of you.
My point is that the opposite of having preferences is just consuming everything. It is just as "weird" as having very distinct preferences.
I also think it is rude to call someone weird but maybe I am alone in this.
The rudeness comment is in reference to your rather aggressive response to what I perceived as a bit of idle observation. He indicated that preference without rational reason is weird (and to be honest, I'm inclined to agree), and you responded by insinuating that he would blindly eat anything presented to him, which is clearly not the case.
Cadbury Flake.
Would you shy away from foods that have list of ingredients that included fructose and glucose? That's all corn syrup is (and a few random corn solids here and there.)
Apples have a really high fructose content too, so technically drinking apple juice can be worse than drinking a dilute corn syrup solution (depending on the kind of HFCS), but almost no one thinks twice about that because it's "natural." (Although there is a growing anti-juice movement.)
Data from Wikipedia (remaining content is glucose):
HFCS90: 90% Fructose
Apple Juice: 63-78% Fructose
HFCS55: 55% Fructose
HFCS43: 43% Fructose