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For pete's sake!! It's a COOKIE. It's suppose to be fattening. I'd bet a 'healthy' cookie tastes awful

Actually things like hydrogenated oils and high fructose corn syrup aren't added to make the cookie taste better; they're added because they cost less money. A cookie that had more natural ingredients would taste better.

Like real butter, lard, and sugar!

TY and I want to be clear that I think I have eaten more oreos in my life, including last night blended wirth ice cream in an Arctic Twister machine, and when I used to pile the cream from about ten of them into one super oreo. But the companies have every right to (hopefully) improve the products in response to consumer trends. However, it's likely they'll just make them worse in a different way. For example, all the no-fat products that were super loaded with sugar. I heard a doctor saying eating thosew ill kill you just as much as the high fat ones.

It seems to me that as good conservatives ready to take on the Sadaam Hussein's of the World, we should favor putting gym back in the curriculum and having healthier kids.

Hydrogenated oils are very unhealthful - Crisco for example is much worse for you than lard or beef tallow. Many of these vegetable fats are also extracted using chemical solvents and high heat, which damages them, producing lots of "free radicals" which are more likely to kill you than even radicals like UBL. ;)

Refined sugar is nothing worth defending either, as those who have lost weight by restricting carbohydrates have learned. Keep in mind that refined sugar and white flour (the other empty carb foisted on us as "food" by the chemists) are only 100 years old. Our bodies aren't built to handle the insulin surges this kind of carb overdose produces.

An oreo once in a while isn't going to kill you, but you are better off eating like your parents or grandparents did. The crap they sell today isn't an improvement, except in their profit by selling you 5 cents of white flour denuded of nutrients, salt, lots of cheap high fructose corn syrup sugar, and some artificial flavor and color for $2.99, with the colorful bag costing more to manufacture than the food.

BTW I suspect there are a lot of Atkins dieting Freepers - us Republicans can't resist all that red meat. Hope you pop up on this thread.

Actually things like hydrogenated oils and high fructose corn syrup aren't added to make the cookie taste better; they're added because they cost less money. A cookie that had more natural ingredients would taste better.

This is VERY true! Something that will blow your mind is around Easter, before the Jewish holiday of Passover, you need to find a store that specializes in Kosher foods (a grocery store usually won't do). Coca Cola make a "Kosher for Passover" version of their Coke that uses sugar as the sweetner, not the high fructose corn syrup that their "regular" coke uses. They taste WAY different, with the sugar sweetened soda tasting much better. The thing is, that the corn syrup is a whole lot cheaper. There's a hugh difference in taste: I'm being series here.

Mark

Actually things like hydrogenated oils and high fructose corn syrup aren't added to make the cookie taste better; they're added because they cost less money. A cookie that had more natural ingredients would taste better.

Good point and I might add that they now use high fructose corn syrup in soda (instead of sugar) because it is so much cheaper. As a result of that, I stopped drinking soda entirely. (I would probably still drink a little soda today if real sugar was used.)

Not that I want nanny government to stop them from doing it. I just exercise my right as a consumer to stop buying those products.