Le Kzin Gourmet

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So I was at Trader Joe's on Tuesday to buy lunch stuff for work. I was looking for something in the way of a snack
and wound up snagging a bag of TJ kettle corn. I took it to work and cracked it open today. And I do mean 'cracked'!
I had to exert all my strength and the bag opened with a loud 'POP'. And no, none of it got on the floor. I'm good! :D
Anyway, this stuff is awesome! It's salty and sweet and the corn just melts in your mouth. A++++++! Will buy again!

I don't know when this happened, since no one told me, but it seems that Snapple has dumped high fructose corn syrup.
Peach Snapple was one of my favorite drinks but I gave it up because of HFCS.
I recently saw a bottle of some red tea Snapple and tried some, as I am quite fond of Rooibos red tea.
I think there was peach and pomegranate in it as well. It was good and contained crystaline fructose, I think.
So it didn't taste very sweet. A few days later, while getting another red tea Snapple, I noticed that the labels
on regular Snapple bottles had changed. New colors, new designs, and they now said "All Natural". O RLY?
So I peeked at the ingredients list of my former love, Peach Snapple, and lo and behold it said "sugar"!
OMG W00T! No more HFCS! So I've added Peach Snapple to my drinks rotation and consume a couple a week. :)

And speaking of sugar, Pepsi Throwback and Mountain Dew Throwback are supposed to become available again starting
December 28th for 8 weeks. That's all I know. 11 more days and then it's stock-up time!! :D
Pepsi's official position is that HFCS is just like sugar and metabolizes the same. Replacing HFCS with sugar in
the Throwback sodas is only to make them taste more like they did in the '70s. It's not a health issue.
Yeah, well, I wish Pepsi Throwback was a permanent thing. Actually, I wish Coke would do its own Throwback.
I hope the Coca-Cola Company is paying attention...