All us industry bow before your uninvited consultant.
https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/079/173/ed2...
There are lots of indications that he's influenced by what happens across on his social media feed, even to the surprise of his own staff.
In this case it could also be a shifting away from US farm subsidies - since much of the reason we use corn as a sweetener in the first place is it's subsidization.
To claim power. To reject the world and assert oneself. To deny change. To soak attention with negative energy, to hide from the actual things a president should or could be doing that would be at all worthy of their time. To keep people mad and riled up, following after what Ivanka reported in 1990, that he kept Hitler speeches by his bed, admired him (his ability to rile people up & thus be manipulable). The praxis of the dark side is to be ongoingly aggresive, to always bring out the worst in people. This is just another swing at that.
But the obsession over types of sugar is largely ephemeral. All sugars are highly processed and refined and equally bad. HFCS's only crime is it's cheapness and ubiquity.
Funnily enough, for interesting chemistry reasons, it doesn't matter which type of sugar you put in, it all breaks down into glucose and fructose anyway! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NY66qpMFOYo
According to the WSJ this is because "Food scientists have noted subtle differences between the sweeteners: High-fructose corn syrup’s sweetness intensity tends to peak earlier, enhancing fruit and spice flavors, while sugar’s profile is broader and lingers."
Gonna go make a highball to celebrate, with some of the last Mexican Coke I might ever have to buy....
But "Make Cola not war" is nice.
PaulHoule•6mo ago