{"id":2231,"date":"2009-08-28T17:12:08","date_gmt":"2009-08-29T00:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/?p=2231"},"modified":"2011-09-28T01:23:04","modified_gmt":"2011-09-28T08:23:04","slug":"children-of-the-corn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/2231","title":{"rendered":"Children of the corn"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Does High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS) have to be in everything? Not just sodas, but meat products, bread, soups – corn flakes, ketchup, pickles (pickles?? wtf?), applesauce, ice cream, salad dressings  . . .<\/p>\n

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Even Kentucky Fried Chicken has a honey flavored sauce (pictured). Because just plain honey<\/em> didn’t quite work. It really needed some tinkering.<\/p>\n

Here’s some details<\/a> about what we eat in the United States. And (update!) even more detail here<\/a>. Powerful lobby them corn people are. Make Soylent Green<\/a> seem so trite.<\/p>\n

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