Territan (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} territan) wrote,@ 2007-09-01 18:56:00 |
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| Current mood: | disgusted |
| Entry tags: | food, rant |
Sweet like lead paint
As is the Saturday custom, I visited my parents. Mother did my laundry even though I can do it myself, and she's even confessed to me that ironing hurt her hand even before the surgery. So let's just say they make out well by keeping me conflicted.
Anyway, we went out for lunch (also a quaint weekend custom). The restaurant of choice was a national chain that shall after today always be "Ucky Fried Ick" to me, in much the same way another chain shall always remain "Bug Evans." And something I saw there was ...shocking.
One of the items they serve with their chicken—pardon me, their ick—is biscuits, so it's natural that they'd have packets of honey off to the side. Or is it?
I've done enough design work and look at details of a presentation to catch things, and boy, did I! For one, the front of the packet is clear in a faint yellowish-brown color. In big bold letters there's the word Honey ... but wait! Underneath that, in the same font in a thin outline so it's practically invisible against the transparent yellow-brown liquid pretending to be the oral secretions of bees, is the word Sauce.
"Honey ...sauce? Why, that would imply there's something else in there beside honey.
The list of ingredients on the back reads something like this:
- High Fructose Corn Syrup
- Corn Syrup
- Sugar </li>Honey</li>
It's Corporate America trying to cash in on its customers' faith in the brand by feeding them inferior product in order to save money and claim they're delivering a service. Why, it's, it's... not surprising in the least. I think what I'm outraged at is my inability to be outraged at each new surprise these assclowns pull. My expectations are already on the ground, bleeding, and it's like they felt the need to deliver one or two swift kicks, just 'cos.
