{"id":188506,"date":"2010-09-14T11:57:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-14T16:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/09\/14\/this-is-called-polishing-a-turd\/"},"modified":"2010-09-14T11:57:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-14T16:57:00","slug":"this-is-called-polishing-a-turd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/09\/14\/this-is-called-polishing-a-turd\/","title":{"rendered":"This is Called Polishing a Turd*"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The corn syrup industry has applied to the FDA to be able to <a href=\"http:\/\/well.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/09\/14\/a-new-name-for-high-fructose-corn-syrup\/\">call its high fructose corn syrup &#8220;corn sugar&#8221;<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>The Corn Refiners Association, which represents firms that make the syrup, has been trying to improve the image of the much maligned sweetener with ad campaigns promoting it as a natural ingredient made from corn. Now, the group has petitioned the United States Food and Drug Administration to start calling the ingredient \u201ccorn sugar,\u201d arguing that a name change is the only way to clear up consumer confusion about the product.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I have seen other similar things, the rebranding of prunes as dried plums, for example, but in the case of corn syrup, where we have an an industry producing a product that produces a product that generates significant about its safety, as opposed to a product like prunes whose use as a regularity aid has made it the butt<sup>\u2020<\/sup> of jokes.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t approve, but I do not see a place to comment on the FDA&#8217;s web site.<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">Yes, I am aware that the <a href=\"http:\/\/dsc.discovery.com\/videos\/mythbusters-polishing-a-turd.html\">Mythbusters did in fact polish turds<\/a> using a Japanese technique called <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dorodango\">Dorodango<\/a>, but we are referring to the cliche, not reality.<\/span><br \/><sup>\u2020<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">Pun not intended.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The corn syrup industry has applied to the FDA to be able to call its high fructose corn syrup &#8220;corn sugar&#8221;: The Corn Refiners Association, which represents firms that make the syrup, has been trying to improve the image of the much maligned sweetener with ad campaigns promoting it as a natural ingredient made from &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1012,985,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-regulation","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188506"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}