Trivial Tidbits

Ok, not really trivial per se, but the following knowledge may someday appear in answer form on Final Jeopardy (please state your answer in the form of a question).

Why does high fructose corn syrup have to be in everything?

The simple answer is: It doesn't.

From www.lewrockwell.com/:

Of course the culprit for the presence of high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) in all sweetened foods in the U.S. is the state. The mechanism is the incredibly high tariff on sugar produced in other countries. The U.S. government would rather force manufacturers to use inferior and hazardous high fructose corn syrup, which can be created from corn – a crop grown in the U.S. – than allow them to use more natural sugar from places that seem rather obvious. I don’t know about you, but when I think of sugar, I think of sugar cane in South America, but when the USDA thinks of sugar, apparently they think of cornfields in Nebraska!

Of course! Why the hell not? The government creates problems with and for every single thing it touches...so why is this so far fetched?

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