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The UK Just Seized Cases of Mountain Dew and Bags of Jolly Ranchers, Here's Why
Food & Wne ^ | December 13, 2023 | Jelisa Castrodale

Posted on 12/19/2023 6:29:17 PM PST by nickcarraway

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To: Nailbiter

Everybody tells me that around here. It’s a nervous habit I guess.


21 posted on 12/19/2023 7:04:20 PM PST by BipolarBob (Yes officer, I saw the speed limit sign. I just didn't see you.)
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To: nickcarraway

Either the UK government is right or the US government is.


22 posted on 12/19/2023 7:06:44 PM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: nickcarraway

What’s wrong with Red #3 other than it is the same color as a MAGA hat?


23 posted on 12/19/2023 7:09:23 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: nickcarraway

There are no lungs in our haggis...


24 posted on 12/19/2023 7:11:36 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: nickcarraway
The U.S. usually has the cheapest, low quality ingredients of any country.

I have three friends who are FDA import inspectors and one who's a USDA inspector specializing in imports. They tell me the two worst are Brazil and China. There are others, but they don't import very much.

25 posted on 12/19/2023 7:14:28 PM PST by End Times Sentinel (In the conflict between the stone and the stream, the stream will always prevail.)
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To: nickcarraway

Does the UK ban “clot shots” that are commercially marketed and made mandatory by their government?


26 posted on 12/19/2023 7:14:30 PM PST by eyedigress (Trump is my President!)
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To: xp38

Well, one of the old standards:

Heaven:
The police are British
The cooks are French
The engineers are German
The administrators are Swiss
The lovers are Italian
Hell:
The police are German
The cooks are British
The engineers are Italian
The administrators are French
The lovers are Swiss


27 posted on 12/19/2023 7:18:31 PM PST by PAR35
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To: nickcarraway

Can’t ban the likes of Gates and Monsanto. If you can’t pronounce an ingredient or a food never rots on your kitchen counter, you probably shouldn’t be eating it.


28 posted on 12/19/2023 7:18:34 PM PST by bgill
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To: xp38
The UK prides itself on high food standards

Ok this is a comedy piece

Maybe it's true, but they still don't know how to season anything.

29 posted on 12/19/2023 7:21:11 PM PST by Bullish (...And just like that, I was dropped from the ping-list)
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To: PAR35

Hell:
The police are German
The cooks are British
The engineers are Italian
The administrators are French
The lovers are Swiss

You left out the best part: “And the whole thing is run by Italians”.


30 posted on 12/19/2023 7:24:04 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: nickcarraway

They can have their hagis sheep entrails and all.


31 posted on 12/19/2023 7:24:10 PM PST by SkyDancer (~A Bizjet Is Nothing But An Executive Mailing Tube ~)
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To: BipolarBob

That will hide your toe fungus & you won’t have to paint your nails.


32 posted on 12/19/2023 7:26:09 PM PST by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> --- )
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To: metmom

Yeah. They feed their cattle fish meal. Makes the beef taste terrible. Most dishes are barely seasoned. I grew up in the South where folks know how cook. 😊


33 posted on 12/19/2023 7:29:06 PM PST by Islander7 (There is no septic system so vile, so filthy, the left won't drink from to further their agenda.)
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To: xp38

One of the best breakfast buffets on the planet was in London, at the Inter-Continental at Hyde Park Corner. I also had a few good fancy dinners.

The absolute worst sandwich I ever had was at the Hard Rock London.

Every other meal I had in the UK was unmemorable. I’ve had better food at the ballgame.

Agreed…it is a comedy bit.


34 posted on 12/19/2023 7:36:49 PM PST by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s²)
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To: smokingfrog

“”You’d probably have to consume a truckload of red food coloring every week of the year before it would harm you.””

They pump lab rats so full of the stuff, I believe it would be really big news if a lab rat DID NOT get cancer.


35 posted on 12/19/2023 7:41:37 PM PST by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try)
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To: Ge0ffrey

Just like the rest of Europe.


36 posted on 12/19/2023 7:57:45 PM PST by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: SkyDancer

haggis is quite good. scottish food in general isn’t the same as english food, and imo is better (often much better).

as much as I have tried for so long, I still don’t care for neeps (mashed turnips).


37 posted on 12/19/2023 8:32:46 PM PST by WoofDog123
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To: nickcarraway

You can have my sprinkles when you pry them out of my cold, dead, ice cream covered fingers.


38 posted on 12/19/2023 8:37:57 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: Islander7
I was stationed in England in the 70s. Their food was awful.

It is said that if you go to heaven, you will have an Italian lover, a Swiss mechanic, a French cook, and the English will run everything. If you go to hell, you will have a Swiss lover, a French mechanic, an English cook, and the Italians will run everything.

39 posted on 12/19/2023 8:47:28 PM PST by Fiji Hill
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To: nickcarraway; dfwgator; smokingfrog

More than 30 years ago the Food and Drug Administration told the cosmetics industry that it could no longer use an artificial color called FD&C Red No. 3, also known as Red Dye No. 3 and Red Dye 3. That’s because high doses of it had been found to cause cancer in animals.

In September 2023 the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), a food and health watchdog group, sent a petition to the FDA urging the agency to prohibit Red Dye No. 3 in food, dietary supplements, and ingested drugs. Consumer Reports signed it, along with 20 other advocacy groups and three individuals.

Red No. 3 dye, also known as erythrosine, is a synthetic dye derived from petroleum.


40 posted on 12/19/2023 8:49:08 PM PST by Cronos (I identify as an ambulance, my pronounces are wee/woo)
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