Another Food Movement Bomb Has Been Dropped In GD

[HuckleB]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=7334369

The derp is strong in that thread.

[NastyRiffraff]

1. As the late, great Julia Child once said..

"Americans are afraid of their food."

And another great Julia Quote:

"The only time to eat diet food is while waiting for the steak to cook."

[Warpy]

2. Americans are generally suspicious of anything pleasurable.

It's all those damned killjoy Puritans who formed part of our national character.

I'm with Julia. I like real food, cooked right. I've been vindicated on a lot of it, too, like butter. Turns out butter is better for you than all that low cholesterol diet crap full of trans fats.

[Warpy]

3. They're dropping a lot of crap because they can't sell it abroad

They'll find that the sales of some items like Kraft Dinner will plummet because people associate the flavor with the day-glo orange food coloring. Other things won't be as noticeable and they'll expand their markets.

This isn't caving to health food purists in the US. It's caving to food regulations in a lot of Europe.

[HuckleB]

4. And where are the numbers to support the claims of need to change, marketing wise?

[trotsky]

5. This is the kind of ignorance I hate:

"As a general rule, if I can't pronounce something in the ingredients, or if it's an ingredient referred to as an acronym, it goes right back on the shelf."

That's straight out of the "Food Babe" guide to logic. I guess bananas are going back on the shelf, huh?

[HuckleB]

6. Exactly!