[OT] wasRE: Cola Wars Re: [FH] americas

The reason the US products contain High Fructose Corn syrup/sugar is
that the US tariff on importing pure cane sugar is so high that it is
acutally cheaper to ship tons of corn syrup to Thailand, have them spike
the syrup with sugar and then re-import the sugar within the syrup back
to the US.  IIRC the world price for sugar is 18 cents per pound, the
cost for imporation of pure sugar into the US is something like 50 cents
per pound, which is why you usually can only find Hawaiian sugar in most
US stores.

So much for Free Trade...

--Binhan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Flak Magnet [mailto:flakmagnet@tabletop-battlezone.com]
> Sent: Friday, May 31, 2002 12:00 PM
> To: gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu
> Subject: Re: Cola Wars Re: [FH] americas
> 
> 
> On Fri, 2002-05-31 at 13:52, Allan Goodall wrote:
> > Just to point out a cultural difference, Canadian Mountain 
> Dew doesn't have
> > any caffeine in it! Oh, and Canadian Coke tastes better 
> than American Coke
> > (American uses corn syrup, Canadian uses cane sugar). Diet 
> Coke is essentially
> > identical in the two countries, though.
> 
> Yeah, something about Canada banning adding things to food 
> products that
> don't add dietary value to them... good idea, I wish we had that rule
> here in the US.  
>  
> > >First thing to fall apart would be the parts of the 
> internet that are
> > >supported by American-based IT personnel.
> > >
> > >It would be horrible and frightening... oh the humanity!
> > 
> > You know, you do have a point here! 
> 
> I'm just glad it isn't the point on my head.
> 
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