General Foods 1976

[pikkewyntjie.livejournal.com]

Summary: Your food is all just chemicals anyway. Just shut up and eat the damn stuff!

Comments

[pikkewyntjie.livejournal.com]

I accidentally added the "weekend event" tag (habit) and when I went to take it out, it was still there after I updated it. Weird. Or weird science.

[luke-russell.livejournal.com]

Ugggh. Trying to desensitize us to all those artificial ingredients, are we? It's not the names of common ingredients that's the issue. I think the general difference is between when an ingredient occurs naturally in a product versus some global conglomerate wishing to enhance their bottom line.

[pikkewyntjie.livejournal.com]

Exactly. The food this ad is trying to push is as natural as the 100% polyester clothes the people in the ad are wearing.

[magista.livejournal.com]

The only thing that makes artificial strawberry flavour artificial is that it wasn't produced in an actual strawberry. But it's the exact same chemical formula and structure. Legal requirements, not scientific distinctions. It doesn't bear an identifier that you could somehow deduce its origin.

[pikkewyntjie.livejournal.com]

Maybe, but I think I'll stick with actual strawberries. Mother Nature spent millions of years working on the original recipe and I think she's done a pretty damn good job.

Also, if you like raspberry flavoring, turns out that is indeed natural. It comes from a beaver's ass, but it is natural:

http://www.snopes.com/food/ingredient/castoreum.asp

Enjoy! :D

[luke-russell.livejournal.com]

That's EXACTLY the problem. It wasn't produced by a strawberry. It is good that the legal requirment is to call it artificial, because it is. If the law wasn't there for sure General Foods would call it "strawberry flavor" and the public would be duped thinking it came from natural strawberries.

[teamrodent.livejournal.com]

Well, hopefully science can defeat the Jell-O monsters... We hope.