Re: One-pot dish

On Sun, 17 Nov 2024 20:51:53 +0000, Bruce wrote:

On Sun, 17 Nov 2024 14:54:39 -0500, Michael Trew
<michael.trew@att.net> wrote:
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On 11/17/2024 12:31 PM, Bruce wrote:

On Sun, 17 Nov 2024 17:07:02 +0000, dsi100@yahoo.com (dsi1) wrote:
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Gosh, I love American ketchup. I get the cheapest stuff I can get and
use it as a sweetener. It's great. Watch out for that banana stuff.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CR43FANImW4

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American Heinz ketchup:
TOMATO CONCENTRATE FROM RED RIPE TOMATOES, DISTILLED VINEGAR, HIGH
FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP, CORN SYRUP, SALT, SPICE, ONION POWDER, NATURAL
FLAVORING.
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Dutch Heinz ketchup:
TOMATOES, VINEGAR, SUGAR, SALT, SPICES
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Australian Heinz ketchup:
TOMATOES, SUGAR, SALT, WHITE VINEGAR, NATURAL FLAVOURS, CITRIC ACID
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Strange how the American product is extra crappy. Heinz US must know
what dsi1 and the other Americans like: diabetes inducing amounts of
HFCS.
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What is unfortunate, is that Heinz surely used a similar ingredient list
to the better foreign ones when it  first established in the US in the
19th century.  I'm not sure how the modern US version is "progress".

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You're probably right.
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Anyway, on the supermarket shelves near me, Heinz offers a version
called "Simply Heinz", with real sugar, I believe.

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I believe that HFCS is cheaper but also sweeter, so you need less,
which makes it cheaper again.

You understand the economics of the situation. That's good. You should
be able to see how everything flows forth from the economics in a
predictable manner. Rational, predictable, economics is good economics.